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Best Tactical Spae Sim EVER!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 12
Date: September 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I havn't played Homeworld 2 - but -

This game is quite simply the most beutfuil, well ballanced, well designd peice of software i have ever had the forutne to play - its one of the few games that i want to play from both wsides, and replay again and again!

Theres a wide vairety of ways to accomplish each mission - but the standard- build the most/biggest/best ships rule does apply frequently - but tactics and placement of units is very important too.

You feel like you are taking part in a movie on a epic scale more than playing a game - becuase the grpahics are just so out of this world.

This game is far too quickly overlooked by many people - and the demo doesnt do it justice.

The Story is brilliant too, and the technology trees are excellentley set up.

For 10 bucks - u should buy two - one for u and one for ur friend!

Takes too long

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: December 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Too slow to develop, you can only play two pre-structured campaigns with no options in the single player mode to start a new campaign. Graphics could make you car sick, it did me. To move from one campaign level to the next you have to complete selected goals. In the 4th level I could not get out, just kept flying around with everything destroyed. Game will not let you out. Manual is minimal, you need to keep going to the system help screen to get information to play the game.

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: November 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game was very good in many respects. Whats cool about this game that you cant do in a game like homeworld is colonize and terraform planets and moons, that was awesome, also, whats cool about this game is you get to research 100s of new technologies, its really cool, also the strategy aspect of it is cool as well. It does kind of have to grow on you though, but once you get into it its definately worth it. I'd reccomend this game to anybody who loves space games and isnt the pickiest person around. This game did have its flaws but its highpoints definately overshadow this

This totally [stinks]!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: March 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I really tried to like this game, but after playing it for a couple days I just gave up. It really doesn't deserve the one star I'm forced to give it.

The controls are quiet frustrating. Not only are there too few options for piloting your fleet, but half the time your ships won't do what you tell them. For example in Episode 1 Earth4, One squad kept flying off towards Mars, eventually causing me to have to start the mission over.

My second major gripe is the story. I swear Ed Wood could have come up with something better. The voice acting sounds like the people were given a script to read, and they did exaclty that without feeling the need to make it sound convincing.

Also you'd think anyone that bought this or similar games would at least have some degree of interest in space exploration and the science surounding it. However, your character seems quiet uneducated and outright stupid at times. Early on he scoffs at being told of the need to research new tech. I'd hope by the 2nd century people would abandon anti-science attitudes, and realize that wormholes and ion drives aren't exactly flint axes or fire.

The sound and graphics are pretty nice though. Maybe they justify the one star, but still I'd recomend anyone looking for an interesting, story driven game, stay away from the garbage that is Hegemonia.

Awesome game, this is!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Writer's profile: 15 years old, love sci-fi stuff, not very paitent.

Hmm... Where do I start to praise this game? Oh yes:

1: The graphics of this game are great! The battles are incredibly life-like, and the planets look really cool! Oh, and the weapons are cool as well. Pretty amazing that this game works on Windows 2000 and I think 98 & 95.

2: The tech tree is great! Lots of different researches allow many different kinds of fleets. Plus, you can alter planets through terraforming.

3: There are a few different levels of each kind of ship(Cruiser, Battleship, etc.), as well as different kinds of each ship (e.g. Missile, Quantum, and others).

4: Multiple star systems allows for lots of hiding places.

5: Multi-system battles make this game all the more cool.

Downsides: Not many, except for the fact that the AI is really hard to beat sometimes, and that the enemy spies are REALLY ANNOYING.

Recomendations: get this game if you love sci-fi, especially if you liked Homeworld 1,Homeworld 2, or Homeworld: Cataclysm.

I'm writing this article because this is a really good game and i think it is definatly worth getting, and also to argue with whats-his-face who wrote the Nov. 2002 article insulting Hegemonia. I WILL GET HIM!!!

thank you, and goodnight

Broken Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: February 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is broken, so don't waste your money on it. It's obvious that Dreamcatcher didn't do a propper QA on it. Trying to load saved missions will result in crashes. I did find that if you play the campaign missions from start to finish and just use the auto start save or the the in mission auto save to reload missions then crashes can be avoided. Just don't bother making your own save line. Also in one of the later missions you have to explore an unknown entity station from a lost race. The station has unbeatable defences. The mission says not to do any research until told too. During the mission you get some incomplete research from a different race and when you do all the research in that line you get a device that supposed to let the entity station think your a friend. To bad none of your ships can equip the device. You can't finish the mission and the game ends here. This game is broken and the company should be forced to reimburse the money they took for it or post an online patch to fix it.

Homeworld Lovers Beware....

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Hegemonia is a great game for some, but in my humble opinion it's "okay", I found the controls to be too awkward for my taste. Of course, being a bit biased, I kept comparing it to Homeworld and HW Cataclysm.

So don't expect Hegemonia to play like Homeworld. Instead expect the game interface to be quite different. Maybe only then you can appreciate the difference. The majority of my friends, Homeworld players, simply hated the game...so you are warned.

If you can't wait for Homeworld 2 to come out and got the itch go grab yourself a copy of the other 3D space game called O.R.B.

Hegemohia Legions of Iron

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: February 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Save your money!!!! The graphics are great but the game ...! The single player mode is linear and boring. It is also buggy. In the multiplayer mode every time I try to play a scenerio the game freezes up and I have to restart my computer. I contacted the games tech support and the suggestion they gave me to correct it did not work. They also told me that other players are having the same problem. Please, save your money for something else. I wish I had!

hegemonia:legions of iron

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: May 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is very good game it has devolped graphic qualty and the in-game atmospheare is very good a few bad things are very bad mpgame and a very little number of options in instant game or skirmish.There are a few maps but they are not enough for a player who wants to play skirmish.Spgame is interesting but game i little bit slow and i would like to make it go fast so i push buton for speed increasing and it says:``+1 +2 +3 +4 +5`` but it still goes very slowely and thats is the most important thing to keep player by the computer...Garfield:)

Don't waste your money

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 16
Date: January 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Buggy!
Terrible:
UI
Voice acting
Story line

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