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| From: Stardock
List Price: $39.99
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Rating:  79 reviews
Sales Rank: 1090
Format: Cd
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista
Genre: real_time_strategy_games
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 708192010608
UPC: 708192010608
EAN: 0708192010608
ASIN: B000YFOGS8
Release Date: February 5, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Showing reviews 31-35 of 79
Very good - Could be great if they keep patching the way they have been March 19, 2008
Daniel Staub (Pittsburgh, PA USA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
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
 Best in its class hands down! May 5, 2008
Warspite2 (USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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 May 5, 2008
John T. Odriscoll (Dayton Ohio)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
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.
 Mediocre at best July 2, 2008
Andrew Cink (Anaheim, CA, USA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought this game based on all the ecstatic reviews, comparisons to master of orion, etc, etc. The game is boring. It has a neat premise. It's the kind of game I want to play and want to like. One of the things I do like is that your ship crews gain experience.
It's basically a lot like MOO2, only the combat is boring. That's really what kills the game for me. The whole "buy off the pirates at the last second so they'll go kill the other opponents" is just retarded. The tech trees are pretty boring.
Basically, the game has all of the right elements. It's like baking bread. They have the yeast and the flour and the sugar and etc. It has everything bread should have. But the bread just isn't good. I want to like it, I want it to be delicious, but it's very bland.
The thing that kills it is the combat. It's boring. There's no action. It's completely formulaic. There's no real chance for a come from behind victory, or for you to design a ship to exploit an opponent's weakness. You just group up a bunch of ships and sit there and yawn while your ships and their ships slowly whittle away at each other. It quickly becomes a foregone conclusion who is going to win. There's no drama, or action, or thrill. It's boring and very repetitive.
Not at all like Master of Orion. The factions are also boring and uninspiring. Basically I'd go load MOO2 and skip this title. I applaud their effort and their desire to make this sort of game, but it just doesn't have the magic that makes a game great. Quickly forgotten.
 Pretty, but BORING May 16, 2008
MJS (CA USA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
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.
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