Homeworld: Emergence
Homeworld: Emergence was originally released as "Homeworld: Cataclysm". "Cataclysm" is now a registered trademark of Blizzard Entertainment, Inc., and the game has been renamed to avoid confusion. Other than…
Homeworld: Emergence is an adventure developed by Barking Dog, released 1 September 2000 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Homeworld: Emergence is
Homeworld: Emergence is an adventure game developed by Barking Dog and released in 2000. It was published by 1C Company. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Homeworld: Cataclysm is a 2000 real-time strategy video game developed by Barking Dog Studios and published by Sierra Studios for Windows. It is the second entry in the Homeworld series and was originally developed as an expansion for Relic Entertainment's Homeworld, but was ultimately released as a stand-alone sequel. Set fifteen years after the events of the first game, Cataclysm follows the Kuun-Lan, a Kushaan mining starship that attempts to counter "the Beast", a destructive nanobot virus, while combatting the imperialist remnants of the Taiidan Empire, who seek revenge on the Kushaan and control of Hiigara.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Homeworld: Emergence holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2000 averaged 72, so it scored 8 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Homeworld: Emergence launched on 1 September 2000, within three weeks of Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, Paper Mario and Dino Crisis 2. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, Paper Mario, Dino Crisis 2.
Cheats and codes
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