@@jimathybindlenim6359 yup same age when I first played, had the same impact as well. Only got into it thanks to an autistic guy who was very similar to Sheldon at my school ranting about how good it would be.
Goosebumps when it happened, but also the hatred it made you feel towards the enemy. This music, combined with Karen's tone and even fleet intelligence having that hint of tremble in his voice; it truly lit my passion for this series up.
I was 9 years old when I played through Homeworld. That 3rd level probably changed my life. Still one of the most memorable moments in gaming for me. It will always be on my top ten list of games. Homeworld was a marvel of it's time and a true classic masterpiece.
Can you really imagine the setting for this? You go out to do something you think of as important, letting your mind drift from what truly is, and come back to find your home gone, destroyed in an act of spite and revenge. And it is only later that you learn that your own actions brought it. In a game with such little character depth, there are many deep messages. We would do well to listen.
This still brings a tear to my eye and lump in my throat everytime I return to Kharak and hear this. You here the emotion and shock in the narrators voice.......stunning use of music in the best RT game of all time.
in tribute to an old comment that resumed the lyrics and all the feelings for this song.... ''Lamb of God, Who took the sins of the world, Have mercy upon us. Lamb of God,Who took the sins of the world,grant us peace.'' then the sky became a storm of fire and there was peace...
Romans 10:9-10 "That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved." And please repent of all of your sins and obey God's commands before it is too late 🙏. Amen 🙏
This music became as well known as it is when Franklin Roosevelt died. All of the major radio networks needed to put on music while they readied the news report and each one independently chose this knowing that an Adagio is a slow piece of music. It has since been called by the BBC "The Sound of Mourning."
A good man who led his nation and many others to greatness and the preventing of evil triumphing across the world... a shame he died when a new darker era followed.
The moment you notice that the enemy is still here and attacking the cryogen pods, and that one of them is left...you will do *ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING* to save that pod, and nothing else in the world will matter to you. My house could've been on fire, flames licking the walls, and I still would've stayed long enough to save that pod and then save the game.
This is one of the odd moments is past gaming where for all intents & purposes people treated it like an "Achievement". They kept reloading and adjusting until every single god damn pod was saved. Not. One. More. Death.
+darkmage07070777 I made sure to build 9 salvage corvets at the end of the level before, along with some decoy scouts, and managed to capture each of the frigates. Not one pod was left, level was over in 3 minutes (excluding time waiting for docking sequences, and collecting the pods) and you got frigates out of it!
I'm eternally impressed by how many different emotions and how many situations this song can perfectly fit... It is equally perfect when the Mothership launches, when the Kharak is destroyed, when the Exiles' story is told and when you finally reach Hiigara...
I found it interesting last time I played the game that even though the characters kept it subtle and professional, if you payed close attention you could hear emotion and opinions. Such as the initial analysis of Karak and the preparation for the battle recording, you can hear the FI officer brutally strangling back any emotional responses. Later, you can tell he is NOT AT ALL BOTHERED that the frigate captain did not survive interrogation.
What is really amazing is how the story is told. Its presented by a few cut scenes and some dialogue but its still an incredibly deep and emotional story. One of my favorite games as a child and still probably one of the hardest games I have ever played.
Still to this day the best game I have ever played. By a wide margin. Music, visuals, gameplay, story, replay value, etc. no other game has come this close to perfection. Homeworld 3 would be the one game for which I'd get a new engine. Come on Relic, back to the roots with you! :)
MultiCyberkitty. I also get teared up by this song and one the greatest most moving moments of my life was accidentally stumbling upon a full orchestra playing this out in Chicago. I couldn't move I just had to stand there and experience. :-)
This is the best version of Adagio for Strings. I fell in love with this back in 2000 playing Homeworld. Have since tracked down other versions of it but they don't have the vocals. this is my favorite version. I am thinking of recording the first 10 mins of the game and posting it. this music and the launch of the mothership are timeless and beautiful. I wish everyone could have experianced it back when the graffics looked awesome in comparison to the other games on the market.
Well, now that the remastered version is out, a whole new generation of gamers can experience the majesty that is Homeworld with just as impressive visuals.
@@Yogsoggeth It was remastered seven years ago, and I'm not sure what you mean by "a flop". It's rated as "Very Positive" on Steam and has sold over a million copies since the remaster. I just played through the campaigns of both remastered games over the last couple of days, and it's every bit as fantastic as I remember, including the graphics.
@@TheRealSkeletor Yeah, I have it installed on this laptop, to be honest. The updated interface in the remastered version lacked soul, and I still enjoy playing the original version of HW1, which luckily comes bundled. The lack of the YES song in the end credits was the biggest complaint people had with the remaster. Luckily you can find that on youtube :D
Alright everyone, mission a resounding success, let's go home. All ships return to mothership. Engage hyperdrive. ... Oh my God... It's all gone. All ships, engage unknown fleet. Priority is to defend the cryo-trays. Show no mercy.
I thought you people might like to know that an indie studio has bought the Homeworld licence (or is in the process of doing so) and is trying to fund both a relaunch of Homeworld for touch-screen media, and also Homeworld 3 through Kickstarter.
Adagio for Strings came on my Pandora station today, and I looked it up to find out why I liked it so much and what it reminded me of. Of course it's Homeworld. I can't believe how much of an influence this game has had on me. The art design, storytelling, atmosphere, music, mechanics and everything else is just so perfect. It enters into my own aesthetics and storytelling in ways that I didn't even realize.
The overly dramatic one I listen to for homework. It's motivational because I feel like no matter what I'm working on the fate of humanity is at stake.
Well nearly 30 here. Playing Homewrold 1 seems like eons ago, yet I still shiver when i renember this scene ... "Everything's gone..." I want Homeworld 3!
The Choral versions of Adagio for strings, based on Samuel Barbers version are actually called Angus Dei (which literally means Lamb of God), the Adagio for Strings part is often put as a subtitle to differentiate it from the many other Hymns etc. with the same or similar title, so it should say Samuel Barber - Angus Dei (Adagio for Strings, Choral Arr.) or something similar The Lyrics are :- Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis. Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis. Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona nobis pacem. Which is based on John 1:29, obviously but you all knew that :P
"Everyone.... everyone has lost something precious. Everyone here has lost homes, dreams, and friends. Everybody.... now Sin is finally dead. Now, Spira is ours again. Working together... now we can make new homes for ourselves, and new dreams. Although I know, the journey will be hard, we have lots of time. Together, we will rebuild Spira. The road is ahead of us, so let's start out today. Just one more thing... the people and the friends that we have lost, or the dreams that have faded.... Never forget them." - Yuna, Final Fantasy X
+Inca Tinca You can. Being an old game it wouldn't be as enjoyable today, lucky for us all, Gearbox remastered it (along with Homeworld 2). Beautiful graphics, enjoyable gameplay, awesome story, I'm sure if you really want to, you can find a way to play it. I'd suggest you do that.
I remember being so young and naive of the innocent world I lived in being 8 years old and hearing this music in homeworld, it cannot be described in a sentence of a paragraph what this video game did for an 8 year old's imagination the colors and dynamics of this video game changed my innocent self into a person who can see beyond the stars of the universe and see deep into the black void of space looking back as a young child into the great void and remembering the first time a videogame changed my personality into an independent thinker who must religiously study the works of humanity and understand the comprehensive architecture of life like some of you may look at me as a crazy person for saying this but music is the spice of life and the fact that a videogame or music combined can change a kid's perspective on life is truly stunning and I really do not care for anyone's opinion of this but this game will always be the reason I get up everyday and look up at the sky and ponder who and what looks at humanity and thinks " eh they would be too easy to kill" what if we are just a figment of reality and another empire in space is just watching our progress with glee waiting for us to try and leave our planet?
What if they are waiting for us like the prey we could be, we all have wondered who and what is out there but I hope and wonder a Bentusi-like empire comes to us with grace in mind.
this song... it feels like it's cleansing my soul... absolutely breathtaking i wish they still had online support for the original game, i recently picked it up again after leaving it to gather dust for a while lol
I hear this on the Warburtons advert, the burnt loaf. Damn it, it still makes me cry, and I mean how did they not notice how much it was like Kharak?!? Kharak forgive them!
A beautiful piece of art that everyone should listen to at least once. The vocals are amazing, definitely top-tier. All of the emotions with the game make this a truly unique and beautiful, yet terrifying, moment when you travel back to Kharak.
spread the word. The old developers and many artists from relic who made the homeworld series are now making a similar series with there new company Blackbird Interactive. Its called Hardware: Shipbreakers. It looks amazing. And its supposed to be somewhat like Homeworld in the gameplay mechanics. Unknown if in same universe. But these are all the same guys from Relic bn the day. Including the amazing 2D artists who did the cutscenes. ENJOY!!!
I have never played Homeworld. The most space opera/sim game I played was NDS Infinite Space, Star Wars Empire at War and Starpoint Gemini. Then, I saw the game movie. I thought "Cool." Then I saw the bit where they smashed the Kar Selim. I thought "Ah damn, hostile aliens as usual." Then I reached...this song. I have never played Homeworld and yet this song's moment made me feel as though something importantly cherished was wiped out completely and seemingly arbitrarily by a hostile force I had never even heard of, let alone begin to comprehend. "Long live Kharak."
i came here after watching a video of the hd remake. i never knew home world and never was a pc gamer, but my god, this is so beautiful and moving. in all my years of gaming, this takes a top spot in my favorite soundtracks
Alexandar Živkovič Even though i usually buy games on (Steam) sales, i could make an exception this time. This game is too good to let it slip through my fingers. Now it's on pre-order with a little discount (15%)
This is Captain Elson we have been battling reinforcement fleets to get here and we have lost many ships already. The Emperor's flagship is here together we can defeat him and the Taiidan fleet. I am placing squadrons Cor and J'sa under your command.
The vocal track to this is a catholic piece called "Agnus Dei" (Lamb of God)...Tenebrys just provided, as far as I can tell, an english derivation of the Latin original.
@12RulAll This music is about the biblic apocalypse as it seems when you look at some comments here... but in Homeworld I understood it as a music telling about genocide... when a race almost completely dies and there is no hope anymore for surviving. This music is a unbelivable epic masterpiece.
![Adagio for String - Homeworld 3 Version [Unofficial Upload]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/xRdoiQLbYRI/mqdefault.jpg)
To anyone who ALWAYS saved ALL cryo trays... *we salute you!*
Leaving with even one cyro tray destroyed is NOT an option
"No one's left. Everything's gone. Kharak is burning."
20 years old and it still brings a tear...
God dam this crushed me when I was 13. And it still does in a small way now
Under these sad sounds of Agnus Dei.
in 40k its a normal day, im kidding this brought me to tears.
Like always with "adagio for strings" from barber.
Like a cat with PTSD....😉
@@jimathybindlenim6359 yup same age when I first played, had the same impact as well. Only got into it thanks to an autistic guy who was very similar to Sheldon at my school ranting about how good it would be.
No one's left....
Everything is gone....
Kharak is burning.
Ben Allen I got goosebumps merely reading his comment.
sephtis I truly felt the sorrow when Karen said those words. Despite such tragic loss, they fought on.
literally goosebumps O.O
Goosebumps when it happened, but also the hatred it made you feel towards the enemy. This music, combined with Karen's tone and even fleet intelligence having that hint of tremble in his voice; it truly lit my passion for this series up.
Even after 16 years it still brings tears to my eyes.
this isn't a song. is an experience.
this is because this is a piece NOT A SONG
@@Tizohip wrong it's an experience.
@@flamigo742 congratulations
I was 9 years old when I played through Homeworld. That 3rd level probably changed my life. Still one of the most memorable moments in gaming for me. It will always be on my top ten list of games. Homeworld was a marvel of it's time and a true classic masterpiece.
Can you really imagine the setting for this? You go out to do something you think of as important, letting your mind drift from what truly is, and come back to find your home gone, destroyed in an act of spite and revenge. And it is only later that you learn that your own actions brought it. In a game with such little character depth, there are many deep messages. We would do well to listen.
This still brings a tear to my eye and lump in my throat everytime I return to Kharak and hear this. You here the emotion and shock in the narrators voice.......stunning use of music in the best RT game of all time.
I don't even need to return to Kharak. I heard the song used in a different movie a few days ago, and I IMMEDIATELY felt that lump again.
@@Atlessa Ah, guess you heard the original instrumental take in the Vietnam flick Platoon.
@@michaelandreipalon359 Never heard of it, so that's not the one.
Unfortunately I don't remember where it was, sorry.
@@Atlessa Oh, don't fret. You haven't done anything wrong.
The saddest part of any game Ive ever played and probably one of the most inspirational.
in tribute to an old comment that resumed the lyrics and all the feelings for this song....
''Lamb of God, Who took the sins of the world, Have mercy upon us.
Lamb of God,Who took the sins of the world,grant us peace.''
then the sky became a storm of fire
and there was peace...
Amen 🙏
Romans 10:9-10 "That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved."
And please repent of all of your sins and obey God's commands before it is too late 🙏. Amen 🙏
Greed, and misunderstanding, fear from the unknown. All the actions in the game we saw are just a heartbreaking detailed story. Mercy for the Exiles.
Hiigara...our home...
*emotions killing me*
This music became as well known as it is when Franklin Roosevelt died. All of the major radio networks needed to put on music while they readied the news report and each one independently chose this knowing that an Adagio is a slow piece of music. It has since been called by the BBC "The Sound of Mourning."
Great info! Thanks for sharing.
Shut up liberal.
A good man who led his nation and many others to greatness and the preventing of evil triumphing across the world... a shame he died when a new darker era followed.
The moment you notice that the enemy is still here and attacking the cryogen pods, and that one of them is left...you will do *ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING* to save that pod, and nothing else in the world will matter to you.
My house could've been on fire, flames licking the walls, and I still would've stayed long enough to save that pod and then save the game.
This is one of the odd moments is past gaming where for all intents & purposes people treated it like an "Achievement". They kept reloading and adjusting until every single god damn pod was saved. Not. One. More. Death.
OriginalRAB Intents and purposes, fyi
+darkmage07070777 I made sure to build 9 salvage corvets at the end of the level before,
along with some decoy scouts, and managed to capture each of the
frigates. Not one pod was left, level was over in 3 minutes (excluding
time waiting for docking sequences, and collecting the pods) and you
got frigates out of it!
+darkmage07070777 So true #RememberKharak
+Nicholas Boake I was too casual to get into it, I guess, but I played it some and really liked the soundtrack.
The only song in the world that can bring a tear to my eyes.
The atmosphere they built for this was perfect.
I'm eternally impressed by how many different emotions and how many situations this song can perfectly fit...
It is equally perfect when the Mothership launches, when the Kharak is destroyed, when the Exiles' story is told and when you finally reach Hiigara...
And now, after all these years, Homeworld 3...
it is as the prophecy foretold
My asteroids is burning
I literally grew up with this game. Beaten the original so many times over. I'm going to take a day off just to play homeworld 3.
hi, i am from future, homeworld 3 released yesterday
@nargalda773 I wish they didn't 😢
I found it interesting last time I played the game that even though the characters kept it subtle and professional, if you payed close attention you could hear emotion and opinions. Such as the initial analysis of Karak and the preparation for the battle recording, you can hear the FI officer brutally strangling back any emotional responses. Later, you can tell he is NOT AT ALL BOTHERED that the frigate captain did not survive interrogation.
The voice acting in this game was really good.
I start to play Homeworld this year.... and.... i love it, is pure art and love.
Kharak is burning........ There's no one left.....
+John Key 4-20-99 i received the beta cd. good old times.
What is really amazing is how the story is told. Its presented by a few cut scenes and some dialogue but its still an incredibly deep and emotional story. One of my favorite games as a child and still probably one of the hardest games I have ever played.
Close your eyes and shed a tear for a lost generation.
When my 15 years old cat died, I couldnt take this of my head...
Everytime I hear this, i had such sad memories...
Still the best rendition of Adagio For Strings! Best ever! God Homeworld you are so good!
Beautiful... I am humbled... words are unworthy... :-(
One of the best games ever with one of the best soundtracks ever. Only game, that in such a complete way drew me in, and never let go.
We leave on a hyperdrive for 5 MINUTES and when we come back YOU LET THE WHOLE PLANET GET FIRE BOMBED!?!?! YOU HAD ONE JOB. one job....
:D
Then they would die along with them.
well they destroyed most of the invading fleet afaik
@@dawidkiller No. The Fleet was already gone. Only some clean up ships were left. In A later mission you meet the Fleet that destroyed Kharak.
To be fair they were pretty busy running around before the planet went boom boom.
greatest games ever made, i go back to the homeworld series all the time and love em all.
thx for keeping these on the internet buddy
Still to this day the best game I have ever played. By a wide margin. Music, visuals, gameplay, story, replay value, etc. no other game has come this close to perfection. Homeworld 3 would be the one game for which I'd get a new engine. Come on Relic, back to the roots with you! :)
one of the best and hardest and most time consuming campagin ever played...
MultiCyberkitty. I also get teared up by this song and one the greatest most moving moments of my life was accidentally stumbling upon a full orchestra playing this out in Chicago. I couldn't move I just had to stand there and experience. :-)
Jelly
Hauntingly beautiful.
Glad I found this soundtrack, brings back some memories.
I am lucky enough to own one of the origional copies of it, from when it first hit shelves. Still have the manual and every thing XD
I can only imagine the feelings felt by everyone aboard. Nothing but shock.
there nothing left....kharak is burning....
i was....almost crying on that....epic scene....it was hard to belive for me of that....
homeworld will always have a place in my heart :')
This is the best version of Adagio for Strings.
I fell in love with this back in 2000 playing Homeworld. Have since tracked down other versions of it but they don't have the vocals. this is my favorite version.
I am thinking of recording the first 10 mins of the game and posting it. this music and the launch of the mothership are timeless and beautiful. I wish everyone could have experianced it back when the graffics looked awesome in comparison to the other games on the market.
Well, now that the remastered version is out, a whole new generation of gamers can experience the majesty that is Homeworld with just as impressive visuals.
@@TheRealSkeletor Is there another Homeworld Remastereed? They did that 10 years ago, and it was a flop.'
@@Yogsoggeth It was remastered seven years ago, and I'm not sure what you mean by "a flop". It's rated as "Very Positive" on Steam and has sold over a million copies since the remaster. I just played through the campaigns of both remastered games over the last couple of days, and it's every bit as fantastic as I remember, including the graphics.
@@TheRealSkeletor Yeah, I have it installed on this laptop, to be honest. The updated interface in the remastered version lacked soul, and I still enjoy playing the original version of HW1, which luckily comes bundled. The lack of the YES song in the end credits was the biggest complaint people had with the remaster. Luckily you can find that on youtube :D
@@Yogsoggeth Yep! I went straight to CZcams to play that song right after I beat the first game again.
Questa musica è di una bellezza incredibile!
Alright everyone, mission a resounding success, let's go home. All ships return to mothership. Engage hyperdrive.
...
Oh my God...
It's all gone.
All ships, engage unknown fleet. Priority is to defend the cryo-trays. Show no mercy.
I thought you people might like to know that an indie studio has bought the Homeworld licence (or is in the process of doing so) and is trying to fund both a relaunch of Homeworld for touch-screen media, and also Homeworld 3 through Kickstarter.
Adagio for Strings + Mission 3 = Masterpiece
Truly Amazing song. brings back old memories of that game. lol *tears in eyes*
Adagio for Strings came on my Pandora station today, and I looked it up to find out why I liked it so much and what it reminded me of. Of course it's Homeworld. I can't believe how much of an influence this game has had on me. The art design, storytelling, atmosphere, music, mechanics and everything else is just so perfect. It enters into my own aesthetics and storytelling in ways that I didn't even realize.
What pandora station? Oh lord
The overly dramatic one I listen to for homework. It's motivational because I feel like no matter what I'm working on the fate of humanity is at stake.
I never forgot this song after the first time I heard it as a kid playing the homeworld demo
BEST SOUNDTRACK EVER!!!
i was lucky enough to buy the game of the year edition that included that soundtrack with it
=]
Well nearly 30 here. Playing Homewrold 1 seems like eons ago, yet I still shiver when i renember this scene ... "Everything's gone..." I want Homeworld 3!
You're in luck!
This is soooo powerful, im speechless
I want this song at my funeral...
The Choral versions of Adagio for strings, based on Samuel Barbers version are actually called Angus Dei (which literally means Lamb of God), the Adagio for Strings part is often put as a subtitle to differentiate it from the many other Hymns etc. with the same or similar title, so it should say Samuel Barber - Angus Dei (Adagio for Strings, Choral Arr.) or something similar
The Lyrics are :-
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona nobis pacem.
Which is based on John 1:29, obviously but you all knew that :P
I cry every time I hear this song....
Still gives me chills
No one is left... everything is gone... the Homeworld IP is burning...
"Everyone.... everyone has lost something precious. Everyone here has lost homes, dreams, and friends. Everybody.... now Sin is finally dead. Now, Spira is ours again. Working together... now we can make new homes for ourselves, and new dreams. Although I know, the journey will be hard, we have lots of time. Together, we will rebuild Spira. The road is ahead of us, so let's start out today.
Just one more thing... the people and the friends that we have lost, or the dreams that have faded....
Never forget them."
- Yuna, Final Fantasy X
I heard the news about the remastered version getting released and this song immediately started playing back in my head D:
That moment around 3:50 to 4:10 when Mothership powers up it drives and clears the Scaffold ... priceless.
Just got here cause I read about a chorus version of the song. Pretty nice!
Great song!
One of the best games
Thank god i have this version
That's the essence of tragedy. That which brought you acclaim will bring your downfall, through nobody's fault but your own.
wonderful! one of those songs that provoke so much emotion. really beautiful (:
This is, as the name states, "Adagio for Strings" by Samuel Barber. This is classical music used not only in the movie and Homeworld.
12 hours! Remastered! Gonna built the most epic fleet Higarans have ever seen!
The sight of Kharak burning brings tears to my eyes every time I play the game.
A stunning piece of music. Epic mournful eurphoria
+Inca Tinca You can. Being an old game it wouldn't be as enjoyable today, lucky for us all, Gearbox remastered it (along with Homeworld 2).
Beautiful graphics, enjoyable gameplay, awesome story, I'm sure if you really want to, you can find a way to play it.
I'd suggest you do that.
I didn't realize this music's claim to fame was that it was apparently in a video game. I thought it was just beautiful.
The line of frigates that you had after spawning was quite an epic scene too. Considering it was about as long as the map itself.
Only video game that ever made me shed a tear.
I remember being so young and naive of the innocent world I lived in being 8 years old and hearing this music in homeworld, it cannot be described in a sentence of a paragraph what this video game did for an 8 year old's imagination the colors and dynamics of this video game changed my innocent self into a person who can see beyond the stars of the universe and see deep into the black void of space looking back as a young child into the great void and remembering the first time a videogame changed my personality into an independent thinker who must religiously study the works of humanity and understand the comprehensive architecture of life like some of you may look at me as a crazy person for saying this but music is the spice of life and the fact that a videogame or music combined can change a kid's perspective on life is truly stunning and I really do not care for anyone's opinion of this but this game will always be the reason I get up everyday and look up at the sky and ponder who and what looks at humanity and thinks " eh they would be too easy to kill" what if we are just a figment of reality and another empire in space is just watching our progress with glee waiting for us to try and leave our planet?
What if they are waiting for us like the prey we could be, we all have wondered who and what is out there but I hope and wonder a Bentusi-like empire comes to us with grace in mind.
best soundtrack music for rts ever made
this song... it feels like it's cleansing my soul... absolutely breathtaking
i wish they still had online support for the original game, i recently picked it up again after leaving it to gather dust for a while lol
*coughs in Remastered Collection*
The only fate worse than death, is to wonder the cosmos alone, forever.
I need a new HOMEWORLD!!!!!
''Nothings left...Everyone is gone...Kharak is Burning...''
-Kharan S'jet
I hear this on the Warburtons advert, the burnt loaf.
Damn it, it still makes me cry, and I mean how did they not notice how much it was like Kharak?!?
Kharak forgive them!
@braptasticmerkage I can't even lie, i was brought to tears by that level, and listening to this song i am again in tears.
A beautiful piece of art that everyone should listen to at least once. The vocals are amazing, definitely top-tier. All of the emotions with the game make this a truly unique and beautiful, yet terrifying, moment when you travel back to Kharak.
didn't realize back then how epic this version of the song is. don't think there are any musical instruments at all, just choir voice
Really good Music! Music is a very impossible component in games and movies..... fine job!
spread the word. The old developers and many artists from relic who made the homeworld series are now making a similar series with there new company Blackbird Interactive. Its called Hardware: Shipbreakers. It looks amazing. And its supposed to be somewhat like Homeworld in the gameplay mechanics. Unknown if in same universe. But these are all the same guys from Relic bn the day. Including the amazing 2D artists who did the cutscenes. ENJOY!!!
I have never played Homeworld. The most space opera/sim game I played was NDS Infinite Space, Star Wars Empire at War and Starpoint Gemini.
Then, I saw the game movie. I thought "Cool."
Then I saw the bit where they smashed the Kar Selim. I thought "Ah damn, hostile aliens as usual."
Then I reached...this song.
I have never played Homeworld and yet this song's moment made me feel as though something importantly cherished was wiped out completely and seemingly arbitrarily by a hostile force I had never even heard of, let alone begin to comprehend.
"Long live Kharak."
Homeworld...it’s not a game; it’s an experience.
i came here after watching a video of the hd remake. i never knew home world and never was a pc gamer, but my god, this is so beautiful and moving. in all my years of gaming, this takes a top spot in my favorite soundtracks
War... war never changes...
I HAVE FOUND IT!!!!!!
You have returned to Hiigara, my child.
7thwraith Now that Homeworld 1 and 2 have been remastered we'll be able to return to Hiigara again, in HD this time. Our Mothership is standing by.
Riccardo Frigerio
I can hardly wait, Homeworld is my favorite RTS of all time.
Alexandar Živkovič Even though i usually buy games on (Steam) sales, i could make an exception this time. This game is too good to let it slip through my fingers. Now it's on pre-order with a little discount (15%)
Riccardo Frigerio
Yeah, ~28 € is pretty fair. Hiigara here I come.
Still gives me shivers ... It's like .... this is how Space would sound like ..
it was a epic game with epic music!
man i loved this...
i had a few good single player mods too...
mh... *dreaming about homeworld 1 and the mods*
This is Captain Elson we have been battling reinforcement fleets to get here and we have lost many ships already. The Emperor's flagship is here together we can defeat him and the Taiidan fleet. I am placing squadrons Cor and J'sa under your command.
*The Emperor's ranch-style space house*
its a beauty
Play this at my funeral :)
Damnit, stop writing such beautiful lines while I'm working, I can't sit and cry by my computer like this
There's nothing left for us here. Let's go.
Said every generation ever.
Homeworld of epicness
It's actually Agnus Dei. And it's awesome.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnus_Dei_%28Barber%29
fantastic
The greatest compliment that could be given to Homeworld is that is was worthy of this music.
One of the best soundtracks, equal with Bastion and Morrowind in my opinion.
The vocal track to this is a catholic piece called "Agnus Dei" (Lamb of God)...Tenebrys just provided, as far as I can tell, an english derivation of the Latin original.
Chilling vocals...
@12RulAll This music is about the biblic apocalypse as it seems when you look at some comments here... but in Homeworld I understood it as a music telling about genocide... when a race almost completely dies and there is no hope anymore for surviving. This music is a unbelivable epic masterpiece.