#Homeworld or sins of a solar empire Pc#
#Homeworld or sins of a solar empire plus#

Even the explanatory pop-ups in the game are better than average. Jim: It is better than average, which is kind of the surprising thing about Sins all over really.

#Homeworld or sins of a solar empire Pc#

Jim: Isn't that basically just essential for all PC games now? Which is the other thing that's always agreeable with Stardock games - there is this general post-patch support. Kieron: Yeah - the AI surrender now, so it's less of a problem. Needs specific victory conditions outside that Last Man thing. Jim: Yeah, it's a classic problem for this kind of game.

well, it can be clear you're going to win, and there's still an hour of mopping up to go. And that's a game whose maps take 10 minutes to win. I hated it in Kane's Wrath when I'm having to find and destroy the last man or whatever. The problem with me - and it's a reason why I tend towards playing Medium/Small maps - is that it's still got that bit in a strategy game when it's clear one of you is going to win. Kieron: Yeah - it's a big game, and it feels naturally like that. Eve is usually bursts of action followed by a lot of sitting about discussing how spaceships are a bit like penises. Jim: Sins has quite a different beat to it though, there's a continuous, elongated need for concentration. (And guys it's not that I don't want to contribute to corp upkeep, I'm just very busy.) Jim: I've dodged mining in Eve for quite some time now. Sins is about hours alone, managing, planning, waiting. But Eve has become about playing the game with a proficient bunch of highly-sarcastic gentlemen. Do you think that's anything to do with the bit of your head that plays Eve for every waking moment? That's always kinda testament, innit.? I know we're going in too deep, too quickly, but. It felt remarkably natural to sit down and play for ten hours at a stretch. In fact I'm not sure quite why this game hasn't come along before. It's going to take about twelve hours to defeat. The fact that I've just embarked on a second giganto-map session testifies to that. Jim: Their opinions are nothing compared to.

Or perhaps realise that their opinions are pretty worthless compared with our own. Kieron: In Space-RTS chats, no-one can hear John Walker and Alec Meer scream. Kieron: Alec - how long you been playing it for? And what about you Walker? Anyway, I've been playing the game since it arrived on my desk a few weeks ago.

#Homeworld or sins of a solar empire plus#

I like that alien-thunder in the depths of space vibe, plus I'm secretly a goth from Manchester. Jim: Hmm, well I tend to go for more Lustmord when in spacewar. As the lineage may suggest, it's an enormous Space War game which mashes a load of Gal-Civ-esque elements into a more traditional RTS. It's a Space-based RTS from some guys who we mainly know for Homeworld Cataclysm, published by the guys who made Gal Civ 2. And let's consider Sins Of A Solar Empire, the game people are literally calling вЂњSins Of A Solar EmpireвЂќ. I stick on Mogwai Fears Satan, as it's the most piece of SPACE WAR music I have to hand.