
To further expand this idea, I for one would be open to side story mini or full campaigns that focused on these races. Whenever I played the old games, my biggest disappointment was that each game only had two races and that the campaigns had some really cool ships that ended up being unused anywhere else.

I am of course talking about the Turanic Raiders, Kadesh, Bentusi and Progenitors (I recognize that from a LORE perspective Progenitors would be op, but so are the Protoss in StarCraft, no reason they can’t be balanced from a gameplay perspective as a fleet of automated drones). Particularly, I’m curious if they would develop all new expansion packs that incorporated the other races in the campaigns that never made it into multiplayer. I’m wondering if they would be willing to experiment even more, further down the line. Disregarding my questions on future balance in regards to the HW1/HW2 gameplay mechanic differences (strikecraft squads, capital ship modules, shipyards, research).

To get back on topic I am rather intrigued that Gearbox and Blackbird are combining the races of the two games into one package for the mutliplayer beta. It’s great to be able to play epic space battles again and it couldn’t come at a better time with the dearth in the RTS market of late (I’m hoping this and Grey Goo are the first of many to change that). Please feel free to speak your opinions after reading.įirst, I would just like to say how excited I am that the franchise is seeing much deserved love and have already preordered the remastered collection.
