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When Michael Graf found out that Homeworld 3 would be shown at gamecom 2022, this realization hit him like a torpedo. Because this year Micha would not go to Cologne – for the first time ever. And that of all times in the year in which the first play date for Homeworld 3 takes place there, for the game Micha has been waiting for 19 years?!
no Not like that. Micha was ready to hijack a train at the last minute and sleep under Heiko’s hotel bed when Homeworld publisher Gearbox brought him the good news: Homeworld 3 will also be playable via cloud streaming for the press!
So he played two missions, spoke to Rob Cunningham, the head of the development studio Blackbird Interactive – and has been telling everyone why it was such a special moment for him.
For example, the homeworld-inexperienced Géraldine, who Micha asks about his Homeworld past and his experiences with Homeworld 3 in our gamescom podcast.
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Because Micha’s homeworld past is a past full of obstacles. First he ignored the first GameStar coverage of the game as a reader, then he joined the editorial team as a trainee in the very month in which Homeworld 2 was released – but wasn’t allowed to test it, what a shame!
The fact that he was able to test at least the prequel Deserts of Kharak and Homeworld Remastered many years later was just a band-aid on this wound.
Because Micha knows Homeworld better than all the other colleagues, whom he has been bugging to this day – i.e. for 19 years – that they finally have to play this game!
By the way, not only Homeworld 1 and 2, but also Homeworld Cataclysm – or as it is called today: Homeworld Emergence (thanks, Blizzard!). The offshoot had something that Micha would like to see again in Homeworld 3.
What he already likes to see in Homeworld 3 is the main innovation, namely the 3D objects that make space “fuller” – and even easier to navigate. So what he played from Homeworld 3 goes in a very good direction for him.
Of course you can read more about Homeworld 3 in Micha’s detailed preview:
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Micha waited 19 years for Homeworld 3 – rightly so?
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