Kharak originally began as Hardware: Shipbreakers.
That’s a long time to wait, and cause for elation, or at least skepticism, but the road to Kharak’s publication has been a long, strange and even quiet one. Seriously, though, all fanboy excitement aside, Kharak is a prequel to the original series, and the first real Homeworld game in thirteen years. Yes, it has apparently materialized out of nowhere, spawned from the publishing fingertips of Gearbox Software. You can even touch it, if you don’t mind leaving fingerprints on your monitor. “The people who can destroy a thing, they control it.” – Dune by Frank HerbertĮnter Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak. An expansion, titled Cataclysm, was released in 2000, and the official sequel, Homeworld 2, in 2003. However, it’s been seventeen long years since the original Homeworld was released. Homeworld is rightly considered a classic, almost hallowed in some eyes, and by any measure an amazing game.
And don’t forget the music, that haunting, spiritual soundtrack which brought the endless depths of space to life. Developed by Relic Entertainment, Homeworld understood the mysteries of space Homeworld understood a good story Homeworld wrapped a fantastic science fiction tale around unique three-dimensional mechanics and put me at the helm. Years later, when I was a bit older, and a bit more capable of quantifying my fascination with our universe – and understanding the novel 2001 – I came across a game called Homeworld. It was my first real introduction to science fiction also, I think, it’s when I fell in love with our universe: the massive, mind-boggling, mysterious expanse of space nothing – and everything – we call home. I’m not sure how much my young mind understood the novel, but I fell in love with it anyway. I have no idea where it came from, but judging from the book’s tattered and yellow appearance in my memory, it was probably from the used paperback store down the road. When I was a wee tot, probably around ten or eleven years old, I owned a bedraggled paperback copy of 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C.
“My God, it’s full of stars!” – 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C.
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