Sins of a Solar Empire

THE GOOD:
- All strategy concepts, including bottlenecks, upgrades, and ship types, are artfully done
- Well constructed gameplay elements provide excellent basis for varying game styles
- Lives up to the 4X genre requirements
- Graphics incredibly good, even if you are on a lower end computer
- Unique interface successfully combines macro and micromanagement together
- Easy to get into the game
- Tends to draw you in really well into the gameplay
- Epic space battles and fleets outdo competition out there

THE BAD:
- Long games could be off putting to some
- No real campaign mode or storyline beyond the beginning story
- AI tends to be siege happy, and planets tend to fall too quickly

SUMMARY:
The strategy genre has been one which doesn’t often attract large attention from the gaming audience. With the fall off of PC gaming into the consoles and the growth of the more action oriented gaming...