Adagio For Strings composed by Samuel Barber. Lyrics are from Agnus Dei. Taken from Homeworld soundtrack. Pictures are random Homeworld Fanart from random places over the internet.
I always replayed the mission to make sure I rescued all the cryo pods. Don't know if it made any difference once you got the minimum but I refused to leave anyone behind.
The minute I heard this song on the game my boyfriend at the time was playing, I was madly in love. The song itself on strings is delightful but the vocals in this rip my heart apart because they are so beautiful!
Hiddenus: The piece of music has been around for over 70 years, and used in several movies before Platoon. "Adagio for Strings" is a work for string orchestra, arranged by the American composer Samuel Barber from his first string quartet. Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" originated as the second movement in his String Quartet No. 1, Op. 11, composed in 1936.
i remeber i had 5 years old and i look to my father playing this game for hours and hours .... my god..... this is my 1000000 visual on this video.... omg that game so slow so damn beautifull great things from italy !
Ah, such beautiful music. First impression is everything, and to hear this music while seeing the mothership slowly making it's launch, with awesome graphics (for its time), and perfect camera angles.... .... It was epic.
The fact that someone at Relic came up with the idea to combine THIS piece and their already outstanding fiction really gives me hope for humanity. That they could pull so much emotion out of a game that at its heart really wasn't character-driven at all shows it's worth, especially against character powerhouses like Star Wars. The setting is infinite, the story is sound, and that feeling you get at the end of the final level...i cannot think of many things more compelling. "Hiigara. Our Home."
The greatest game of all time. The controls were tight, the effects and models were polished and the execution of the story was flawless. No RTS (and very games in general) have ever come close to eliciting such an emotional response.
God I loved the beginning of homeworld. You didn't need characterization. You only had the resources for a handful of ships anyway and every single one of them was instantly important to you. Pure story-through-gameplay element right there. Brilliant.
It was one of my first PC games. It was amazing. The hardest slog, managing resources, trying to keep everyone alive. I was exhausted when the credits rolled. Then "Homeworld" from the band Yes starts playing. I can't even begin to express how kid me felt. The sound and music on that game was incredible. I will remember that first completion for the rest of my life.
The goosebumps, simply from reading the phrase (hearing it in the voice of the tactical advisor) "Hiigara. Our Home.", one can get is amazing. Also, the infamous mission 3... Manages to be more emotional than basically any other computer/video game to date, and the best thing is they didn't try too hard - it just hits the perfection spot.
because its so poetic. you get drawn into this game and the sounds. they all fit so well, a people fighting to reclaim homeland is a classic human endeavor
Receiving no communication from anywhere in the system. Not even beacons. You can hear him choke back a tear as he says 'beacons'. I can't hear this beautiful song without that line, and that choke, coming back to my mind. Still makes me tear up, a decade later.
This composition is haunting! I can honestly say that "Platoon" would not have been the same without it, but this version is 10 times more powerful, it gives me chills!
The Homeworld series had some really good soundtracks, and this is one of them. I really like what they did with Samuel Barbers version, and added a choir in it. It fits it into to game perfectly.
This was the first game I played that I would say was truly epic. The story, the score, the sense of scale and despair. I've still yet to play anything like it.
I've heard several takes on this piece (though never on strings; rather ironic considering the title), and this remains my favorite version. The voices add a haunting quality that really set the tone for the gameplay.
Homeworld was one of the greatest games I've ever played. The music was so erie and fitting for the game, and this song really drove home the emotion of what happened to your home. I think the premise of Homeworld would make for an incredible movie as well! Too bad it hasn't come to being.
Thanks for posting this! Hearing this song brings be right back to that incredible game. I loved the balance between frantic chaos and sudden calm. The methodical planning before unleashing your fleets and squadrons. And all of it backed by, IMO, the best musical score for a game, ever.
Homeworld to coś więcej niż tylko gra. To powiew całkowitej nowej myśli i rozwiązań, na które nie była przygotowana ludzkość. Tak niewielu potrafiło grać w tą grę.... Homeworld is more than just a game. It's a breath full of new ideas and solutions, for which mankind was't prepared. So few were able to play this game ....
I plug in my headphones, turn this up to 9, and close my eyes. This is some of the most amazing music in gaming history. Thank you Samuel Barber, and thank you Relic entertainment.
This has to be one of the most beautiful pieces of music created, the moment when I first heard it in game still stick with me to this day. I could feel their pain as they watched Kharak burn...
It has long showed its age, but for many it was the first true 3D space strategy game, and it had a killer story to boot. This music track accentuated a very desperate part of the game perfectly!
this was originally in platoon :3 and im a 17 year old young man and this song brings tears to my eyes and the woman im in love with can play this on the viola :) my life = complete
He turned away from Trenis, his hands clutching the railing of the walkway upon which he stood. From his position, he could see across a chamber large enough to hold an entire Janissary platoon. As he watched, ancient loading systems drew back, grinding and shuddering their way to empty magazines. The source of the sound, of the dwindling cadence was a battery of railguns dry-firing over and over. The thunder that had plagued the boarding teams was the loading racks slamming against the launch tubes. Fortunately, they were devoid of shells. Either depleted in some ancient battle, or the malfunctioning conveyor system had not been able to load them.
This ship was trying to kill us. The whole time Bequeathed had been on approach, this battery - and Triarchs knew how many others - had been cycling over and over, trying to destroy the cruiser. A dead ship had been trying to murder them.
Hard to believe in classical music circles it's Agnus Dei - Lamb of God. A very beautiful and haunting piece of music that is one of the best pieces of classical music ever made fits perfectly like hand to glove in one of the greatest RTS strategy games of all time.
Could not have said it better myself. The most compelling game on the 90's First True 360 degree space strategy. The controls Perfect the game experience its self mind numbingly fantastic. The game of the year on its release. God bless Relic when they created HomeWorld. November 15, 1999. RTS game of the year.
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This is the second best game ever made. The first was Packman. This game bring to us the modern RTS gameplay, the 3D play. The storyline it´s incredible, the sound efects are amazing, the music, the grafics..Everything was made to impress. This was the 1s game made by Relic studios the same that created Company of Heroes. God bless Relic when create HOMEWORLD
@transtlantic Venter's team had to eliminate those genes from the host cell and methylate the transplanted DNA to protect it from digestion. They also used a "trick" to make the foreign DNA take over the cell. Synthetic Genomics added antibiotic resistance (tetracycline) to the foreign DNA, then grew the transplanted cells in the antibiotic. Therefore, only antibiotic resistant cells (the ones with the foreign DNA) would grow.
Hey guys, I just wanna point out, that while yes one of the most memorable moments this song was attributed was was when Kharak was Burning, does no one still have the memory of the first view of the Mothership, this big thing that had taken years to build and an entire race of people coming together to build it, and this track playing in the background as the Mothership ran through her pre-shakedown tests? For me, this song perfectly captured that culmination of effort, that amazing moment.
you can't help feel your guts wrenching at the sight of Kharak burning, the scaffold remains floating derelict when this music plays. I spoiled the story for myself before i played the game so i knew what was going to happen. But i felt so overpowered by this i almost cried.
An awsome game with an epic soundtrack and an original storyline. Adagio for strings helps me calm down when I'm stressed out. I guess it counteracts the frustration at times when I play homeworld XD.
I still consider Homeworld the best game ever made. Top graphics and playability for it's time, actually, I think it surpassed it's day. A truly epic story which is rare enough in RPGs much less a strategy game. It was just a work of art, a masterpiece. I miss it. Anyone else agree?
Best RealTime Strategy Game Ever! This masterpiece composed by Barber is undelining the unique feeling through the game! I cant discribe what it is, but it feels ... Homeworld.
OMG i want to start playing homeworld again now! What a game. Thsi music is great. I found it really hard to find the vocal version so big thank-you to kilmindaro2 for uploading it.
Beautifull game... beautifull soundtracks... ^_^ beautifull atmosphere... i cant forget the time i played it with one of my friends before 6 - 9 years ago :)
i keep coming back to this game myself, i played it first when i was 12 or something. but i must have played it all over again atleast 30 time. just such a beautiful and stunning story, and such a powerfull burdening feeling of frustration, despair, anger, vengeance, joy and wonder when you play the game.. it is almost as you become a part of the game, because it's so well created. and this song makes me cry every damn time i listen to it to..*sigh* good old days..
Its used in Homeworld 1 for the most tragicly sad thing possible. Your planet tests out hyperspace in their first mothership. The jump fails, while you are gone, you receive distress signal from home base. When you return to docking pad, you find your PLANET destroyed, for violating an ancient law long forgotten by your people. The only populus remaining in space are being destroyed and you must scramble despirately to save as many as possible. This piece was put to good use in Homeworld.
it should, I agree but this is just a particular part (Agnus Dei choral version) from Barbers Adagio for strings. Barber wrote the music, the agnus dei (latin: lamb of god) is a usually liturgical (sung) christian praye. So it's the words of the Agnus Dei put on the Music of Samuel Barber.
God I loved the intro!! Totally swept me into the game!! Made me collect the entire series!! THQ!! Allow Relic to create the 3rd incarnation of homeworld!1 its my favourite series!!
I love how they used this song during the Mothership launch, the return to Kharak, and in the final assault on the emperor over Hiigara. Birth, death, and resurrection/providence are somehow appropriate.
Who dissed a masterpiece? This is Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, specifically Angus Dei choral arrangement. It has been played so little, usually done in times of great sadness. September 15th, 2001 this piece was played live as tribute to September 11th, as the world grieved. It turned a devout classical (in MUST BE MADE IN EUROPE sense) conductor into believing that American music can be just as beautiful as the ones he previously conducted.
This immediately brings to mind the desperation I had attempting to fend off the assault frigates as they bombarded the last remnants of the race I played...
Adagio for Strings and this Agnus Dei are both composed by Samuel Barber. :) Barber was 26 years old with adagio and never ever wrote better music, a bit sad.
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i cry everytime i hear that song and remember the moment when i came back to Kharak the first time and saw that dramatic scenery .... it's just the best game i ever played ..
The saddest moment in any part of game story telling history, The glowing embers, the debris of the scaffold, the trembling voice of sudden realisation. "No one's left. Everything's gone. Kharak is burning." The pieces start to fall together of what happened, then... "The cryo-trays are under attack. Defend them" The impulse, instinct and that sense of responsibility that the player experiences when sending everything they have to destroy those frigates has never been repeated in a game yet
@kilmindaro3 Exclusively huh? You know what that word means, I suppose. It's true that Platoon used the strings-only version, but choral versions with the lyrics of Agnus Dei have been performed constantly since 1940 and been recorded at least 50 times. This sounds like the Trinity College, Cambridge choir version to me, but I might be wrong.
I loved how they pulled this off in the game. Gave it such an emotional feel to it. The cradle has been destroyed. I am detecting no communications in the entire system. ...Kharak is burning.
Hitman (2007): directed by Xavier Gens. Max Payne (2008): directed by John Moore. Doom (2005): directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak DOA: Dead or Alive (2006): directed by Corey Yuen.
@Talon1124 i saved all 6 cryo trays :P i was disappointed when i realised they didnt include a sound file says says "six hundred thousands people saved" i suppose i was too awesome for the game :(
