Otherwise, Blackbird Interactive seems pretty devoted to the original vision for Homeworld. Just know that I spotted projectile weapons, missiles, and ion cannons, so your favorite Homeworld weapon is probably back in some form. But these models are so far beyond those of 19 that while there's clearly inspiration going on, drawing a direct parallel is impossible. Larger ships also make an appearance in the trailer, with the very distinct silhouette of a Kharak-inspired Hiigaran carrier showing up at one point, and the game description mentioning “hulking battlecruisers.”Ī ship very much like the classic Taiidan missile destroyer and ion frigate show up in the gameplay trailer, too. What's back? At the very least strike craft, frigates, and cruisers are returning, but it's hard to tell if corvettes and destroyers made the cut. There will also be dangerous terrain, like asteroid fields and particle storms, that can harm ships. The official Homeworld site says that these structures will “bring 3D terrain into the classic Homeworld battlespace” and that they can be used to hide your fleet for ambushes against enemies. They now look a lot more interactive, as fighters sweep down trenches for cover. Lots of the battles in the gameplay trailer also happen among massive spaceborne megaliths, made by the mysterious Progenitors, that previously only formed very rudimentary terrain in Homeworld games. That's new, as asteroids in the old Homeworld were rarely so large as what we see in the gameplay trailer, and no battles took place so close to a planet you could make out geographic features like mountains. Some environments look almost low-atmospheric, with large non-ship objects showing up. We don't know that much about what's new in Homeworld 3 yet, but I identified one big thing from the gameplay trailer that might be a hint at a twist for Homeworld 3's environments. What's new in Homeworld 3? What's coming back? After how good Deserts of Kharak was, it'll probably be a real treat. So that's what's up, at least: The now nigh-immortal Karan S'jet might well be the last person who remembers the distant past, and as the gameplay trailer narration hints, that memory might well be the key to saving the future.īlackbird has also been clear that like the original games and Deserts of Kharak, Homeworld 3 will have a deep, compelling single player story. Now the Hyperspace Gate Network is catastrophically failing and Karan, who has passed into myth and religious idolatry, is the key to the mystery threatening a galaxy’s future.” Here's the official description: “Cycles of plenty and war have come and gone. We don't know anything about what will happen in Homeworld 3 other than that a lot of time has passed. So what's the story of Homeworld 3?Īfter Homeworld 2, the galaxy entered what was called the “age of S'jet,” as Karan's clan used the newly-opened hyperspace gate network to usher in an age of prosperity. It's a new design, a sort of flat croissant rather than the huge upright banana of past motherships in the series-and a nice design callback to the carriers from Deserts of Kharak. That's probably our new Mothership, with its signature massive launch bay for producing capital ships. Throughout we get glimpses of a huge ship over and over: A crescent-shaped flat vessel. There's also a brief flash of some ships in red, the primary color of the Vaygr antagonists from Homeworld 2. We also get a few distant glimpses of angular ships in the signature yellow and red stripes of their Taiidan enemies. From there, we see a barrage of ships in the flat, boxy styles and colors of our Hiigaran protagonists. We're shown a sprawl of events from the first two games, from the destruction of Kharak and the Kushan flight through the galaxy to the war with the Vaygr horde from Homeworld 2. As we understand it, she's also now going to live for a very, very long time. She's a posthuman of some kind, called an Unbound, due to her physical connection with the Hyperspace core that powered the mothership. The trailer's narrator is Karan S'jet, the main character from original Homeworld games and the voice of The Mothership and Fleet Command.

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