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Bloody typical. You wait 12 years for a Homeworld-style space strategy game to come along and, wouldn't you just Adam and Eve Online it, three of the blighters slip into space dock in a matter of weeks. Granted, two of them are still inbound and won't be with us until the end of the month, but even so, that's a fair old chunk of real-time command and conquering to be getting on with given how little of it there's been - space-wise - for most of the 21st Century.You'd think that being the first to berth would give Void Destroyer the advantage over those following close behind, but of course the two games in pursuit aren't just a couple of Homeworld knock-offs, they are - as many well know - the Homeworld games, their mighty engines brought back online and their hulls renovated for an imminent HD release - which begs the very valid question as to why anyone would take a risk with Void Destroyer when they can just hold fire for a couple more weeks and get their hands on remastered editions of two of the most revered strategy games in PC gaming history.
In answer to that, not only is Void Destroyer very reasonably priced, it is in a sense twice the game Homeworld ever was, for as much as it borrows from Relic's pre-Dawn of War real-time strategy series, the likes of Freespace and other seminal space combat titles are just as inspirational. Void Destroyer is a hybrid game, a shooter and an RTS combined, with players able to directly pilot any ship under their command, from the flightiest fighter to the game's heavy-hitting command ships, switching at will between a third-person ship view and the spacebar-activated Tactical Mode as and when mission objectives dictate. Had there been a sliver of trading and exploration to go with the fleet fights and resource gathering, Void Destroyer could've laid claim to being one of the most inclusive space games around. Sadly, for various reasons, the game seems more intent on excluding space gaming fans than it does in uniting them.
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