Homeworld was a spectacular game. I still break it out every now and again just to get the blood pumping with some of the scenarios where you can get ungodly large fleet action going in a full three dimensions.
The integration of fleet strategy, aggression levels, supply and refuelling. Capital ship tactics vs. starfighter tactics, research, and material harvesting, its got everything you could want in a strategic level game.
I still get a kick out of one scenario where I was able to blindside another player by flanking him while I approached openly with my mother ship surrounded by missile cruisers. Seeing the Carrier come up from underneath of him with a sphere of 40 multigun corvettes to shred him from the rear was utterly priceless.
That and my favorite tactic of surrounding my mothership with a swarm of those little capture corvettes. Nothing more hysterical than to see a squadron of cruisers and frigates come into view only to be completely overwhelmed and captured for my use.
If you want great voice characterization, go get the first person starfighter game called Tachyon. They have Bruce Campbell doing the voice of your character, complete with the signature wisecracking and commentary. Its absolutely hysterical.
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