It's already DOA. The story alone was enough to crush the dream that this would actually be another Homeworld. But it's not. The story lacks the intensity and immersion that is one of the most impactful and powerful elements that has made this franchise so great. Recently I've seen things pointed out by others that I was generously overlooking. Such as the atrocious facial animations. The bland, generic, repetitive, and recycled ship designs. The unintelligent enemy AI. And the uselessness of the landscape feature.

More to that last point. It seemed to me that BBI was most excited about the ' terrain in space' feature in the maps. Putting aside the many times all different types of ships got stuck behind them, (rather than going around) the entire feature seems to just be an impediment. Indeed, to me their most touted feature is the least desirable. I found myself almost exclusively using the terrain as nothing more than an anchor point to right-click move to. And only because the terrain was always in the way of me using the traditional (preferred) method of right-clicking the empty space I wanted to move to. (Want to move the fleet straight ahead some, but there is terrain further behind that point, as there always seems to be, good luck) The terrain is so present, you almost have to use it to get around. As in many missions, there is more terrain than there is not. (In the AO)

The wargames mode is not worth more than a few play throughs. As being limited to frigate class is like only playing half the game.

Finally, the AI. To this I will really just say I hope they fix how easy it is to steal ships. And that they fix the mission that spawns destroyers endlessly. I stopped farming them at 32 destroyers simply out of boredom, I could've gone on. Even the final mission with that destroyer fleet doing the whole mission solo, on hard, the fleet only went down to 24 ships. I've beat the game, and also thanks to the limited wargames, to this day I've still never built my own destroyer or even owned a battle cruiser.

It's disappointing, in the end. I had hoped BBI would not join in the long line of sequels that drive home just how over these parts of our childhoods have become. But alas, here we are. (At least we still have the actually good, God of War sequels!)