"Homeworld" won Best Strategy Game at the 1999 Game Critics Awards prior to release, and was nominated for Computer Game of the Year and Computer Strategy Game of the Year at the 2000 Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Interactive Achievement Awards. It was awarded Game of the Year by IGN and "PC Gamer", won Strategy Game of the Year by "Computer Gaming World" and was nominated for the same by "Computer Games Magazine", and won Best Original Storyline and Best Original Score at the 2000 "Eurogamer" Gaming Globes awards. It also won "PC Gamer"s "Special Achievement in Music" and "Special Achievement in Art Direction" prizes. "Maximum PC" claimed in 2003 that "Homeworld" "did what no game had successfully done before: create a truly three-dimensional space-combat strategy game". "HardwareMAG" similarly claimed the "revolutionary" and "ground-breaking" status of the game in the real-time strategy genre in 2004, as did "Computer Gaming World" in 2003.