Sins of a Solar Empire
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Video Game Reviews of Sins of a Solar Empire
Customer Review: Finally, a successor to Master of Orion (the first one)
Summary: 5 Stars
For some of us, nothing was ever better than the original Master of Orion in the mid 1990's -- it was a perfect blend of tactics and strategy, allowing macro-level management and also just the right amount of micro-management with planets, but done in a smart way that kept you from having to tweak too much. Unfortunately, the game producers drew the wrong conclusion that users wanted more micromanagement, and the subsequent games were an unmanageable and unpleasant mess.
Now comes Sins of a Solar Empire, and it's like someone took everything great about Master of Orion, turned it into a RTS, and then drastically improved the already great user interface and management screens. This game totally cured me of my longing for the good old Master of Orion days, and set a new standard for how RT4X games should work.
Everything is optimized here -- fleet management is all very easy, as is technology leveling, management, planet defenses, taking over planets, etc. You can easily crank through a simple game in a few hours, and things are actually pretty manageable under the real-time settings, even for those of us who don't like RTS's (and thus the reason for the excellent user interface).
I heartily recommend this game for anyone who loves a game with relatively simple commands, but a complex game and strategy under the hood. If you hate micromanagement but love complex strategy, you love this game.
Customer Review: On second thought -- not great.
Summary: 3 Stars
The good stuff: The graphics are appropriately vast; the scope of gameplay is enormous, without becoming unwieldy; and real-time space strategy is something I've never seen before but turns out to be a cool idea.
Now for the bad stuff: After getting a good grip on the game, and you get ready to roll up your sleeves and REALLY start enjoying it, you suddenly realise that there is nothing left to enjoy. Sure, you have three races, but apart from minor differences all their ships and structures are numbingly similar. Tech-trees differ significantly among races but they do not influence the game in a significant way: they make you trade more, earn more, mine more, kill more... Maps can be randomly generated but once you've seen one you've pretty much seen them all.
In sum, this game is great to get if you're bored, but don't look for the depth and replay value of previous 4X games like GalCiv 2.
Customer Review: Great game A bit of a learning curve
Summary: 4 Stars
This game is a ton of fun once you learn how to play it. It took me a couple of 1v1 games verse the computer on easy to really understand what was going on. There are some tutorials but I feel the lack of a single player campaign hurt it a little bit. Either they needed to expand the tutorials or add in a campaign. However now that I have several games under my belt I up the difficulty and doing more FFA. Overall this game is great and I recommend it to anyone that likes the strategy genre. It seems the forums at the offical site and gamefaqs.com help new people with strategies that aren't obvious to the new recruit.Customer Review: sins of a solar empire
Summary: 1 Stars
Would not run on my box. Probably a hardware deficiency. When I tried to run it the screen went black, was unresponsive, and I rebooted. I then uninstalled it and threw away the cd.
Customer Review: Sins of a Solar Empire
Summary: 4 Stars
I think this is a great game. The only thing I would find wrong is the hardness of the game. It doesn't have any levels of ability i.e. Easy, Normal, Difficult. It only has a difficult level.