Yeah, so I heard it was all those 3rd party dev teams that are to blame for uneven quality but it was still released as Gearbox's game so the stain lands on their name ;)
Also, it's a kind of heavy burden for them to continue this franchise, it won't be easy to live up to the expectations, afterall Homeworld 2 is still considered to be one of the best space strategy game... if not the best
Previous returns to successful titles proved to be mostly failures (AVP, ACM, Duke Nukem, wanna-be-BC aka. ST Legacy, etc) let's say I'll restrain myself from all the ohhhs and ahhhs until it's development is officialy announced ;) but I do hope H3 to be true in near future