Though the game takes place in complete 3D space, and you can move ships to anywhere in that space within a gravity well, it naturally tends to a basically 2D flat plane around each planet within its gravity well. In Sins of a Solar Empire, you have a 3D view of the map you are in, and you can move the camera in any direction, and zoom out to see every planet as a small cluster of icons, or zoom in to look at every detail of even the smallest ships. However, even with that rather significant downfall, there are many, many skirmishes available that mostly makes up for it. All there is available is single player or multiplayer skirmishes. There is an interesting backdrop, but the game never embellishes on it. The storyline, and the intro video that helps explain it, set a backdrop for a game that has no story or campaign mode to explore it further.
The real surprise in all of this is this game's biggest downfall: it doesn't matter. It's a pretty interesting backdrop that leads to the conflict that you get to take part in. If that wasn't enough, the Advent, an exiled sect of humans from at least 1000 years before, has greatly advanced in psionic and biotechnology sciences, and are back for revenge from being exiled. As a result of the Vasari's appearance, the Trade Order quickly turns their immense economic might towards war, as they try to drive them back.
The TEC is the result of the abrupt end of a 1000 year peaceful prosperity of the Trade Order of humans where the ancient Vasari appear out of seemingly nowhere to bring back their former domination. You can choose one of the three galactic powers: the Trader Emergency Coalition (TEC), the Advent, or the Vasari. There are three factions fighting for domination, survival, or revenge. Here, you do all of those things, but instead of it being turn based as the genre commonly is, it's all in real time, like common RTS games. In a 4X game, your goal is to eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate your opponent. It is a variation on what is called the '4X=' game. Sins of a Solar Empire is a real time strategy (RTS) game that takes place in outer space.
128MB 3D Video Card (GeForce 6600/Radeon 9600 or better)īroadband Connection for Internet Multiplayer
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