You're amply rewarded for taking the time to micro-manage your armies as well. It's more about tactics than production, closer to Myth or the Wargame series than to something like StarCraft. The fact that armies take time to grind each other down than in other RTSes also made battles feel a little more fun, with more opportunities to play general. Even with the wrong units, you can sometimes brute-force your way through battles, or withdraw before things get too hairy. While each unit type counters and is countered by other units, this isn't a game where having the wrong army means instant death. Control groups generally do a good job of keeping a sensible formation so you can use attack-move commands without much fear, most of the time. All hell breaks loose immediately following the Kapisi's launch as the Gaalsien embark on a final attempt to exterminate the various tribes of the northern Coalition.Ĭombat among the canyons and plains of the desert is surprisingly similar to the space-combat in the earlier games: line-of-sight and army composition are the big keys to victory, followed by secondary factors like unit positioning to take advantage of high-ground vantage points, which give you bonuses. The main character, Rachel S'jek (random apostrophes rarely imply good sci-fi, but Deserts of Kharak overcomes them) departs aboard the carrier Kapisi on a do-or-die mission to recover a powerful artifact from the heart of the desert. As it opens, your civilization is clinging to life on a vast desert planet, besieged by technologically advanced religious fanatics, the Gaalsien, who make their home in the desert wastes. It finds in the desert the same stark beauty that Homeworld found in the darkness of space, and uses it as the setting for an approachable yet satisfying real-time strategy game.ĭeserts of Kharak takes place long before the events of the original Homeworld, but never feels overshadowed by what's to come. It creates a setting and story that is at once distinct from the earlier games, yet also enriched and informed by them. But Deserts of Kharak does more than mine the iconography of a strategy classic for nostalgia.
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