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Best in its class hands down!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Homeworld was good in its time but its time to retire that game and say hello to a newer, bigger, better and superior game called Sins of a Solar Empire. A true TBS meets RTS game and the best mix of these two genres I have ever seen. Excellent single or multiplayer. One of the toughest computer AIs ever made. Beautiful graphics, some of the best space battles I have ever seen. Looks like it was ripped out of a top notch sci-fi flick. Capital ships are the coolest looking things and they are huge! Tiny fighters zip around them like ants just wait until you zoom in on the action. Superb replayablity, every galaxy in each scenario is randomly generated. The you can even customize your own with in game settings. Stop reading, add to cart and buy it, I will promise you will NOT be disppointed.

Awesome

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I was skeptical about the quality of this game when i first heard about it. After 2 weeks of game play I have to say that this game is truely one of the best strategy games i have seen in a long time. The only reason that I gave it 4 stars overall is because I had a very tough time enabling multiplayer in the Ironclad Online gaming area.

One of the best strategy titles in years

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: February 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Groundbreaking? Revolutionary? Where do you even start to describe a game like Sins? As a strategy game it's a completely new take on the genre. As a the first game from a brand new indie developer it's downright unprecedented in it's scope, ambition, polish, and overall quality.

It's rather difficult to describe a game like Sins, as you have quite certainly never played anything like it. It's a real time strategy, but if you're expecting Starcraft or Homeworld you will be sorely disappointed. In its scope an pacing the game plays much more like another Stardock game, Galactic Civ 2.

What makes this game so fantastic is its sheer, uncompromising depth. Traditional RTS games look practically primitive next to Sins. This is a complex game that makes absolutely no apologies for being such. While this may be off-putting for those expecting a traditional RTS click-fest, it makes it all that much sweeter to the gamers who it is really targeted at, 4X fans.

If the game's depth elevates it above traditional RTS titles, it's the visual immersion that elevates it above traditional 4X games. A grid of static images that most turn based 4X games offer you doesn't even come close to the experience of seeing a fleet of hundreds of ships ranging from 10m long fighters to 1km long capital ships maneuvering around a massive planet all rendered to scale. In a word, Sins of the Solar Empire is gorgeous.

This is not a game for everyone. Today's console crowd weened on fast paced shooters and action titles will likely not have the patience for it. For the fans hardcore strategy that this game is aimed at though, Sins is pure gold and quite possibly the best, and most groundbreaking game to come to this genre in years.

Game of The Year

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: February 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is the best RTS I've beta tested in the past five years hands down. Designed to run on a slew of machines, most of the bugs were worked out of the game months before release by hundreds, if not thousands of beta-testers, meaning an already enhanced experience immediately upon release. Stardock also is incorporating an innovative new type of copyright on the disc which is rather revolutionary, allowing a buyer to download the game anywhere in the world at any time with only the serial code. Stardock also hit the jackpot in that they started up more servers for the launch of the game, so online play would not spot out on their end, and so the downloads are quick, and painless for the gamer. As we all know when Call of Duty 4 came out, it was such an awesome game that their servers crashed within days of launch because of the amount of gamers trying to get on at a time. The game itself is technically a new genre known as real time 4x (explore, expand, exploit, exterminate), and although it does not focus on full 3d movement, the game resembles Homeworld 2 very much, and follows suit in that it is a revolutionary game, on a scale as of yet unheard (the player has the ability to zoom all the way out, and view an entire galaxy, or all the way in and view separate "fighters".
Altogether, I would say this is money best spent.

Can you say Master of Orion?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: May 26, 2008
Author: Amazon User

After playing this for the last few days (over 24 hours of actual game play) I have come to the conclusion that this is just a paired down version of Master of Orion 3. Yes the graphics are nicer but the game has only one difference from MoO3, it isn't as customizable. In MoO you can create your own ships, the weapons you want, shields, etc. In Sins you have a few types already set up for you and that is it. The graphics are really nice. I don't know what the reviewers are talking about when they say the graphics are really bad but I'm running this on an ancient Athlon64-3200 with an 8800GS video card and the graphics are great. Overall I only rated this two stars because the only thing new are the improved graphics. Other than that this game pales in comparison to Master of Orion 3.

Excellent game that no PC gamer should miss out on.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: March 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Sins is an amazing piece of work. This game is a marvelous epic of a space strategy game that combines 4x gameplay with real time gameplay. Play this game at your own risk! Start a game among friends and you will absolutely play into the wee hours of the next morning, and you wont even regret it. Not too bad for 40 dollars a box is it?

Public Service Announcement...this game will consume you!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: March 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I'll make this short and to the point (I desperately need sleep). This is the most addicting game I have played in years. I have never stayed up for more than a 24 hour period strait (give or take an hour). Between normal life activities(job, appointments, family responsibility, eating, etc.) I played this game allowing me to stay awake for over two days strait! This is not normal for me. I just came home from the past two days and wanted an easy way to unwind. Only problem is, my unwinding is being interrupted by my now useless alarm clock as I'm already up.

This game should come with a warning. Maybe, "Play only on the weekends" or "Don't forget to feed and walk the dog".

My only quibbles:
Make the alien races even more different from the humans.
More variety in the ship types and classes.
More ships!

I'm sure patches or an add on would take care of my minor desires. I'm also sure more content would push me to even greater extremes of sleeplessness.

Stop reading this now.

Very good - Could be great if they keep patching the way they have been

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: March 19, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Very good game. Loads of fun.
Multi-player is lots of fun as long as you don't fight against a ship spammer.
AI is good but has a few flaws that need patched.
This game is right on the edge of greatness, if they improve the AI in the next patch like they hope to and ballance the long range ships a bit more we will finnaly have a worthy successor to MoO.

Dan
AKA Sammual

Great Gameplay

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a really fun game to play. It's the first RTS game that I've enjoyed in a long time. The rules are quite simple, but playable. I especially like the size of the maps which are reminiscent of games like Time of Defiance and Homeworld.

This isn't a game for people who like fancy graphics or lots of frenetic movement. I've found very little value in micromanaging the movement of my ships or even the placement of structures. I just send fleets of certain size and composition to certain places. You can zoom in on battles just for the fun of it, but I've found little playability value in doing that.

As others have said, the diplomacy with the computer is pretty lame. On a large map everybody eventually wants to be your friend. You spend more time deciding which treaty to violate than trying to obtain treaties.

Another negative is the multiplayer. It can be difficult to get it to work. It would be nice to see some improvements in this area.

Update: The multiplayer seems to have been fixed in the latest patch. I've had no problems with it lately.

Excellent game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I'm sure this has been said a million times, but this game plays like a real-time version of Galactic Civilizations. The best part of this is that you get more interesting combat, but with alot of the empire building and improving of a 4x type game.

Some other notable high points of the game are:
-strategic zoom (similar to Supreme Commander). This lets you zoom out far enough to see all of the planets at once, or close enough to see individual fighters zipping around attacking an enemy ship.
-large scale battles. the supply limit can be set before the match, each side can have 1000's of ships. Unlike the large battles in Supreme Commander, these don't slow your computer to a crawl.
-works on older machines. I ran this on my 4 year old computer just fine. Not many newer games run well and look this good on old computers.
-solid online play. the online play works pretty well. The matches can get pretty long sometimes, so you can save multiplayer games and resume them later.

This game is a must have for any fan of the RTS or 4x genres. Just be warned, matches can take a long time, so this isn't one of those games where you can play a quick match in an hour.

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