BBI did Deserts of Kharak and that game wasn’t bad at all.
HW3 is ok. Presentation-wise, it’s great. Visually it’s amazing, audio is amazing. Story-wise, the campaign is a bit better than 2 but not as good as HW1, Cataclysm or DoK. It feels really rushed and you don’t really get a chance to get to know the new characters well, and imo the campaign is waaaay too short. Also, the cgi cutscenes are pretty bad compared to the storyboard animatics of the previous games. Gameplay-wise, it’s… ok? Balance feels off (some units like Assault frigates feel overtuned), strike craft are too fragile, the production queue is a bit too generous in letting you queue up multiple unit types and maybe most egregiously unit-pathing is prone to bugging out and doing weird stuff, but it’s fine most of the time. If you like how combat feels in HW1, 3 actually returns to that and mostly feels similar (minus the fragile fighters) so personally I appreciate that at least.
Imo give it a few months for QoL and balance patches and mods (mod support is built in) and this game will be a sleeper hit. Hard to recommend it right now unless you’re a diehard homeworld fanatic though.
BBI did Deserts of Kharak and that game wasn’t bad at all.
HW3 is ok. Presentation-wise, it’s great. Visually it’s amazing, audio is amazing. Story-wise, the campaign is a bit better than 2 but not as good as HW1, Cataclysm or DoK. It feels really rushed and you don’t really get a chance to get to know the new characters well, and imo the campaign is waaaay too short. Also, the cgi cutscenes are pretty bad compared to the storyboard animatics of the previous games. Gameplay-wise, it’s… ok? Balance feels off (some units like Assault frigates feel overtuned), strike craft are too fragile, the production queue is a bit too generous in letting you queue up multiple unit types and maybe most egregiously unit-pathing is prone to bugging out and doing weird stuff, but it’s fine most of the time. If you like how combat feels in HW1, 3 actually returns to that and mostly feels similar (minus the fragile fighters) so personally I appreciate that at least.
Imo give it a few months for QoL and balance patches and mods (mod support is built in) and this game will be a sleeper hit. Hard to recommend it right now unless you’re a diehard homeworld fanatic though.