Turanic Raiders Battle Music

[joemamaUSA]

Woah...that first high pitched hit. Even sitting here on youtube I felt my gut clench up and was expecting to hear that enemy contact "boop". The music is just that good.

[DingKong]

This game was almost near 100% perfect - and I tell you what, it still plays as well all these years later. Okay - graphically it looks dated - but when the game is this good who cares?

Perhaps the best RTS ever

[darkdill]

Simple fact: when you first saw the wreckage of the Khar-Selim, and then you saw these guys coming, your reaction was the following...

"Oh... FUCK..."

[BladeLigerV]

this couldav been a move

hell it still could

[robotfroggyhead10]

I LOVE THIS GAME

[CosmicEquilibrium]

I'm glad I still have Homeworld, Cataclysm, and Homeworld 2 in their original cases to this date, along with all their Soundtrack discs. This is one part of my childhood I am sure to take to the grave with me.

[emosp0ngebob]

actually, was award winning in 1999, b:

y E3 1999 - Game Critics Awards: Best Strategy Games

IGN 1999 - Game of the Year

PC Gamer 1999 - Game of the Year

Well-Rounded Entertainment 1999 - Game of the Year

Gaming Globes 1999 - Best Original Score: Paul Ruskay and Roger Savoie for Homeworld

theres a reason this game has won so many awards, because to this day, i still cannot find a game with such an atmosphere, story line, or gameplay. the only game to rival this in terms of story line, is halo

[Bieeanda]

Good gravy, this still gives me chills.

[thejuncopartner]

When I play EVE Online and go ratting, I play this track, the Imperial Battle Music and the Swarmer Battle Music on repeat. Best space songs.

[MikePortnoyz]

If this isnn't the best battle music ever!

[Nyarlahotep]

@Iseeyoursoul Buy a copy of the collectors edition on ebay, it comes with the soundtrack

[ripperrolfie]

It still works in win7 using admin mode unfortunately multiplayer is history.

[Pondsisini]

Two people don't know what good music is.

[malblogia]

* Frigate lost *

FFFFUUUUUUUUU......

[DaytonaRoadster]

One of my favorites of all time, right there with TIE Fighter and Alpha Centuri

[FrykillerHoNn]

i still have and can play this game <3 always loved the music

[chasersbf]

Oh, fuck, oh fuck. My Dad played this game religiously, always as I was trying to go to bed. I would have the worst fucking dreams.

Thanks Dad ...

[BladeLigerV]

turanic raders...wair did they come from?

wair do ther go?

what do they do?

and why do they do it?

the only people that know.....are dead...

[Arissef]

@BladeLigerV They came from an isolated planetoid (from the Raider Retreat mission). And why are these people who know about them dead?

[BladeLigerV]

@Arissef wow you took all the fun out of that.....im a homeworld geek, i know

[shiva1055]

I get chills from this every time

[emosp0ngebob]

homeworld 3. we need a homeworld 3. like this, and maybe relic or whoever it is now will see this and make it. this music is the BEST battle music ever. homeworld really is the only true 3D RTS, and homeworld 2 was NEARLY a flop. homeworld 3 with now-days 3D graphics would make homeworld 3 the best selling game of the century. homeworld is just that epic.

[hiigaranhomey]

This song is simply amazing. Homeworld has one of, if not the best soundtracks ever conceived by man. The intensity and power are nothing less than moving.

[TeeKayFourTwoOnebeta]

@Iseeyoursoul Oh, no, I already have a working converter, it really WAS just out of curiosity - but thank you for offering... and of course, for putting up this video. I actually converted it months ago, and it's on my MP3. Homeworld is just amazing like that.

[TeeKayFourTwoOnebeta]

The percussion line that starts 'round 0:22 and goes into its full form at 0:50. It is pure epic. That's really what keeps the song going - the odd vocal(?) effect just makes it even more epic.

Camera pans over Khar-Selim. Player: 'Wha?... Aw crap, it's destroyed.' Turanic raiders zoom into view, racing and bashing into each other, going towards the Mothership. Song plays. Player: '...Ah, CRAP.' *panic*

This game was so wonderful. Correction, is wonderful, even 10 years later.

[bendem94]

I remember hearing this for the first time... I was terrified... yet ready to take them on!

[Danarogon]

only one moth***** didn't liked this? who tha hell is that basterd?!

[DarkTemplar40k]

They’re attacking?!... The Mothership is under attack!!

[DiegoAlanTorres]

Por some reason this remembers me the Level 4 from Spore Dancing

[kaekimaster]

Ah, the best game of my childhood :D.

[genesisanalcom]

EPIC.YUST EPIC.

[Ivghald]

this is a masterpiece

[19Manav80]

One of my favourite games of all time followed closely by Deus Ex and Thief Dark Project.

[Markell1991]

The first 1:40 of this is so scary. I nearly crapped myself...

[Ascensiam]

@Jpzinho007 you idiot

[Ascensiam]

@Jpzinho007 just because you love one thing doesnt mean you have to hate the other one. RELIC made homeworld and that makes them awesome, but valve brought us portal and counterstrike, and that makes them awesome too.

[Jpzinho007]

@Ascensiam the ansewer that i was waiting for.

[egmgamer18]

God Homeworld 1/Cata music is addictive. Especially this song and the cataclysm main menu song, lol.

[SzilveszterCsaba]

I've seen all the Battlestar Galactica seasons. I've played Homewolrd. In my mind they are one.

[178thbattlegroup]

homeworld 1 was made in 1999 homeworld cata in 2000 and hw2 in 2002

[paulv1973]

Paul Ruskay composed this. Best video game score ever in my opinion.

[tracerboy959]

I nostalgia lost

[Zehydra106]

It's kind of sad to know that the companies that made this game are don't like each other anymore and they killed off the series. But, ah, I guess it doesn't hurt to let masterpieces be.

[deathzero34]

It let other companies strive to achieve something as good or better :)

[DeJayHank]

Relic made it for Sierra. then Relic switched to making games for THQ instead. but Sierra still had the license for Homeworld so relic couldn't make a new game.

THQ bought the Homeworld license from Sierra however, so there's nothing stopping Relic from making a 3rd game.

[TheThunderhammer]

@DeJayHank

I think it's fully possible to see a new Homeworld on the horizon. But anyone who loves Homeworld should try out the MMO EVE Online. Many of the players are diehard fans of this wonderful series. However, if a Homeworld 3 is to be made, I would probably jizz my pants.

[G4Br1ELCLM]

yeah look to what happened to C&C

since EA games purchased it, the game has been going into a downfall

[pwnzerleet]

This music is just chilling! That's some real atmosphere.

[volound]

this brings back memories, great game.

that mission was amazing, one big cluster fuck.

[MareInTheMoon]

@volound Funny thing is, they only call it a clusterfuck if it's command's fault.

[Barricade]

2 days ago was its 10th Anniversary.

Long live the Mothership!

[Pondsisini]

@Barricade Long live bananas!

[anlt0946]

i was never a big fan of freelancer it was ok but not great nor bad

[anlt0946]

and after i beat cataclysm i am going to try to find decent freespace 2

[MrTBSC]

best spacesimulator ever

second best freelancer ...

[anlt0946]

i just beated homeworld 1 and i just bought homeworld cataclysm from ebay bloody hard game but is well worth it

[80smusicfanNO1]

"Beated"? WTF!?

[Phantomsbreath]

Man this brings me back. The horns of war, the beating drums of death.

[Ascensiam]

To kick your ass for being a racist

[DementiaHunter]

I could listen to this for hours xD

[mistWalker66]

IMO the first Homeworld had more better battle music - the constant penetrating deep hum;the imitation of war drums,and the war horn;the slow build-up of the song,almost like the anticipation of a great battle...

I just didn't get that kind of thrill while playing Cataclysm. :P

[BumLegionair]

but man, homeworld 2 was the shiznite, the music is way better than cataclysm.

[BumLegionair]

1999 boi,also the year the first unreal tournament came out, damn what a good year for games.

[tehdreamer]

Big thanks to whoever created this music :D

[Ascensiam]

Paul Ruskay

[Lenangreal]

i love the arabic theme of the H1&2 saga

[Ascensiam]

It's an Indian theme.

[BumLegionair]

yeah, i agree it is far from arabic lol, no muslim influence can be found in HW music.

but you can hear bits of hindu chanting in certain homeworld or hw2 soundtracks if you listen closely.

[AlternateArtisan]

before someone starts askin. Try putting &fmt=18 at the end of the address for the full quality soundtrack

[LonelyWanderer317]

Homeworld movie ... cool idea!  Maby it will beat even Star Wars! :D

[Deathshade347]

Beat Star Wars? I don't know.. Homeworld was awesome, mindblowing and very original in my opinion. But Star Wars is so famous, it'll probably be many decades before people start forgetting it. But a good Homeworld movie would most likely attract a bunch of fans.

[Ascensiam]

Homeworld was also 30 years after Star Wars, and Star Wars had 5 movies and several games before Relic Entertainment even existed.

[EVEMASTER99]

dont think it would beat star wars but it would rock

[ExperimentalDesigns]

Camble Lane is one of the best narrator voices out there. I saw his short appearance in Razor and damn I wish they make a movie of this because the sheer scale of it is worth a try on script if done right. Oh and fantastic post.

[Grombolin]

Did you know, the guy who narrated the Homeworld games was in the Battlestar Galactica special, Razor!

I was like "woot, I know that voice!"

[halffliffe]

his name is camble lane, do a wikipedia on him to find more info

[blokenamedbob]

I have to agree, the atmosphere of the original Homeworld game was incredible, few other games have drawn me in and had me hooked like this one did. And I'd say 90% of the atmosphere is created by the brilliant soundtrack.

[eloyhbermudez]

we want hw3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Vladdd8000]

Клёво!

[MpowerdAPE]

just found out about the lost turanic raider mission , AND IM FUCKIN PISSED.

how could they.

anyhoo, still the best game ever.

[halffliffe]

they didnt put the raider retreat mission in the game because it was considered too hard and was cut from the game, i never actually played it but i did see a vid of it, its pretty intense. If i remember corectly, you could only get it from preoredering hwc , it came with cataclysm. I have no idea how to get it now, may be down load it

[Mjolnir65]

Hands down Best Game EVER, nothing competes with it, its storyline, gameplay, music, flow, everything was perfect.

[MrTBSC]

hmmm ... not quite ... the was on it´s time more than awesome no doubt about that... but the only thing that irritadet me was that the the 2 races had identical ships without any real difference just the design was different ... and what i didn´t like is that both races had the same storyline ... that was a bit dissapointig to me ...

[borgri09]

@MrTBSC the kushan are the main protagonists

[viralhatred]

@MrTBSC

Taiidani were added after playtesters for homeworld requested it. The Kushan have better turret positioning on their ships such as the assault frigate and destroyer and are therefore more effective that their Taiidani counterparts. They also had the cloaking fighter.

The Taiidan had the DFG Frigate and Fighter.

[MareInTheMoon]

@viralhatred Though the Spectre-class Cloaked Fighter is arguably rather useless, given its small tank...and the fact the cloak draws from that reservoir.

[Gallee37]

This game played out like a movie. The music was such an integral part to it's atmosphere. Hard to believe it's almost ten years old. It still looks great + I personally think 1 brought more original design and involving storyline than 2. Both great games but 1 had the innovation.

[JinRenegade]

Its a real shame not many people know of this game. If they ever heard of Homeworld they think of Homeworld 2 instead.

I think relic should maybe re-make this game with the new technology, bringing back all the old voice actors, story and the music but with better graphics and animation.

[Phantomsbreath]

Just one question. How do you remake this and make it better? It's already one of the best damn games out there. End story.

[Barricade]

@Phantomsbreath - update the graphics to what we can see today and allow for bigger fleets to be on screen at the same time (so instead of the Bridge of Sighs level where you can only see 6 Ion Frigates out of that huge sphere....you can see ALL of them).

[Phantomsbreath]

Touche. I'll grant that.

[TouchedProductions]

Best Game Ever-award should've been handed to this game. Right now.

[ZemplinTemplar]

It has. Several websites and game magazines gave it the "Game of the Year 1999" title. :-) I think it was well deserved - Homeworld is a great example of quality space opera among the space sim genre. The Homeworldverse itself reminds me a bit of Dune and other similiar works...

[TouchedProductions]

You read wrong. -EVER-. Not for a year. Not for a few years. But FOREVER.

That's how much of a fanboy I am.

[einexile]

I'm not sure you're right, but I'm pretty sure. And forget being a fanboy - I never even finished the game. I'm not sure I ever will; the last time I tried I became so upset and horrified at what was happening I set the game aside for three years.

[Phantomsbreath]

I'm still trying to win level 5. It's not that easy, when you're not used to it. I used to be good. And I lost the game disc. So now I have to relearn how to play.

[AirwarriorX2]

OMG i hated level 5 and 6 the most final one taken me week to figure out.

[phallll]

Love the Middle Eastern influences in this.

[1q3er5]

agreed one of the best soundtracks in a game ever.

[newcal4]

this is my favorite battle music from HW1!

[ChadwickSesame]

One of the best games I've ever played! Brilliant music.

[mlarosa25]

i remember the introduction to the turanic raiders, on max difficulty, that mission was hard X.X

[GregCeballos]

The Homeworld games had and still have incredible music. Always gave me goosebumps when I was listening to it ingame. Great idea with uploading the tracks here.