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1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 29
Date: March 19, 2008
Author: Amazon User

this is the worst game EVER all it amounts to is a click fest on tiny unresponsive icons. You Cant really play the game in the total close up mode . ie: you rarely get to see the nice close ups of the ships.
The upgrade and tech trees stink and you cant build any thing , including the ships you need.
The game is not nearly as good as Galactic Civilations II.
I have spent about 12 hrs of last 24 trying to figure this loss out. al lyou do is respond to "pirate attacks", over and over etc.
DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY! look for
Galactic Civ II on sale! It has many of the same features and works much smoother and more logically!

For hardcore real time strategy players ONLY

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 21
Date: April 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Sins of a solar empire is for dedicated RTS gamers and RTS gamers only.
The game has no campaign mode, so don't expect a good story, which would have made it so much better. The music goes from okay to okay, its mediocore. The game play is just ugly, I should'nt have to say anything you saw for yourself on the gameplay pics they show you. What killed it the most was the tutorial modes. you will spending a long time just to understand combat, space mining, and planet taxation which is MIND BOGOLLING BORING. Sins was not fun for me and should'nt be, it had the potential to be great; if not wonderful. Hopefully EA will buy this company and give it a much need face lift.

Stardock Changed the Rules

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 11
Date: July 17, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have supported Stardock for years now. I purchased Galactic Civilizations (2 copies), Altarian Prophecy, Galactic Civilizations 2 and Sins of the Solar Empire.

However that all ends now, since Stardock has changed course in midstream. They will no longer put out stand alone patches for the game, but now they are forcing the user to download and install Impulse to get any future content.

This method of DRM is not as bad as Spore's or MassEffect, but it still ends in control over the user. In fact Brad (owner of Stardock) basically said he does not care what others think, he is going to do what he wants.

It is now either Brad's way or the highway. My recommendation is take the highway, and stop being forced like cattle into the pens they tell you to go in to.

Take the highway, it is cheaper, less painful and you do not have a person or company dictating to you that you will download their software because they want it on your computer.

DRM is a DRM no matter how much they tell you it is not. They are now setting the rights by which you will be able to download any future content for their games.

What this game has.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 11
Date: July 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

If your hoping for a story line give up now.
There is no story! That's the pig point, some of these reviews say a Si-fi noval. If you loved homeworld or hegamonia, or Nexus You will hate this game. When you start a new game it asks you to choose a configuration for the galixy (how many suns and there colors, planets are random) Then you hit start and it generates the map and you start with a planet and you start to build you move into other suns and mattering on the diffcualty you get attacked your forces get push back or you move forword bomb there plants or visa versa and then your done. DONE thats it pick the next one and then your off doing the same thing. You can make a random map but it's just like the other options. There's nothing to keep you playing.

Soooooooo Boring.....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: August 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I mainly play first person shooters and RPGs (the last two games I played were Mass Effect and Crysis, which I loved) but I enjoy RTS games as well. I spent lots of time playing Empire Earth, Age of Empires 2 and 3, Dawn of War, World in Conflict, and others. After seeing so many positive reviews for this game, I went out and bought it.

As soon as I started watching the intro I knew I had made a terrible mistake. The voice-over is awful and the story was uninspiring. Then I expected to start a campaign, something with a story. Instead, when I clicked Single Player, I was presented with a list of maps to choose from. Come on, they could make a little effort to draw me into this game. I started playing the first tutorial, and between the irritating voices that acknowledge your commands and the utter dullness of watching the ships sit still firing their little lasers until one blows up, I was sure that this was not a game that I would enjoy.

I played Sins of a Solar Empire for about ten minutes, and it was ten minutes too long. Apparently there are lots of people who like this game, but if you like the kind of RTS games I mentioned above, don't waste your time with this.

Not Impressed

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 63
Date: February 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Sins of a Solar Empire

Ok so I maybe the only guy in the bunch here that has something negative to say about this game. Why you ask? Well first off its just not as intuitive and well designed as I read and now experienced. How so you ask? Well the GUI - or graphic interface just looks like they got some inexperienced guy in windows paint to slap together the graphics. The placement of icons, groupings of icons and color scheming just doesn't make sense. Now aside from the general game's interface, the graphics(ships, worlds general in-game asethetics) definitely does not rank up there with titles coming out these days(World In Conflict or the old school game:Homeworld 2. SINS graphics look really dated(circa early 90's) and uninspired. Lots of blocky polygons and so-so texturing. Kinda amazing since this thing went through so many betas and took soo long in development. Granted tho, it doesn't have load issues, you can move pretty seamless around the enviroment and it has some nifty effects. Voice over work -bad - lets not mince words people. It sucks. No single player campaign but lots of ability to custom make your own scenarios and maps.

Have yet to mess with the multiplayer - but seems cool you can save it out. I suppose I was expecting something on par with Homeworld 2 and as immersive. Should of waited for the demo... Suppose I could try and take it back or use it for a coaster on my table. My suggestion, wait for the demo.

**To counter those who think I didn't crank up the graphics - I did. Got a 8800GTX 768 and a dual core 3.0ghz with 4gigs of ram. Nuff Said - nothing changed. The graphics were bad a medium and didn't change at highest.
*** There is strategy in this game, just no story, no immersive binding element that makes me want to come back for more...I suppose I am old school. Give me a story and then I might hop online if it is worth my time.

Poor support

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: April 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The game itself is decent: slow but fun. The support is poor, however.

There is a serial # inside the box. This is a bother, but it's perfectly understandable. However, it's the beginning of an adventure, or was for me.

Installed the game and looked for updates. The update process uses a very sophisticated system, it closes the game and opens Internet Explorer. Given that even one-man business (like Baseball Mogul) manage downloads within the game, this is not impressive. At least you don't have to remember to type ",8,1".

Stardock then fails to recognize the serial #. There was only one "1" and two "0"s, so it didn't take long to try the variations. The entry form does not contain separate boxes for each number grouping, and it does not explain whether to manually type in the dashes. I tried both. I Tried to login (I own other games of theirs), and it timed out repeatedly, though my connection was fast and functioning fine. This last could be just bad luck, but it fit the experience. From the forums, it looks as though there was even a problem with the 1.04 update, so maybe its best that I have to wait.

It's not a good system for obtaining updates, it's not a user friendly system for entering the serial number, and it would help if their website was functioning properly. If you get the game, be aware that your first hour with it might consist of more frustration than fun.

Oh, the gameplay is decent, though you might want to have something to read while you wait between important events.

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.

Pretty, but BORING

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The battles look great when you zoom in, but you really can't fight that way because you miss too much, like more enemies joining the fight. You basically spend all your time fighting off pirate attacks (when in history have pirates ever messed with fleets of warships?). There are three different factions you can play, but the differences in ships are pretty minor and they play about the same. If there is a "tactical" aspect of fighting these ships, I missed it - seems like you just get them close and watch them slug it out.

The "real time strategy" thing is not really a positive thing in my mind. You end up scurrying around trying to sneak in the research and building in between more pirate attacks. Just makes the game feel more harried. After a week or so, I stopped playing this - I would not recommend it.

I'D RATHER BE PLAYING EMPIRE AT WAR!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

playing this game reminded me a little of playing SW Empire at War only worse. I quickly lost interest in this game and never finished more than a couple of levels. Maybe this game is better in Multi-player mode, but as far as single-player mode is concerned i'm gonna have to give it 2 thumbs down. Play Empire at War instead you will not be disappointed.

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