![]() You’ll be introduced to planet politics, how to tax your people, resource management, vessel constraints, research and tech trees amongst a pile of other things including how Geordi La Forge’s eyes work in Star Trek. There’s simply so much to take in initially and it’s easy to feel lost, peering over your monitor in the hope of being easily distracted by something else in the office. ![]() See the tree on the left? Handy for selecting individual units during a heated battle.īattling away the tears, you then make your way over to the tutorial to get a slice of what the gameplay has to offer and let me tell you now, the first time you play it your brain will want to wither and die like a distant planet becoming a Red Dwarf. The black market can be your friend or foe depending on how you treat it ![]() This is the first major disappointment of the game. So let’s get going! What’s our first mission? Who do we attack first? Without explaining too much and speaking in riddles, the narration more or less leaves you to figure out that there’s a three way space battle on the cards, and we have to do everything in our power to protect humanity. It appears that humanity has fallen foul of alien races and religious sects that we simply cannot co-exist with. Load up the game and you’re treated with an intro movie with a plot as convoluted as Star Wars Episode 1. So along comes Sins of a Solar Empire, looking to fill up that black hole with a meaty asteroid of RTS gameplay. Thought perplexing Strategy has been tossed aside by the brutish rush tactics of Warcraft and Co. Fans of the genre will fondly recall titles such as Red Alert and Dungeon Keeper in the early days before moving onto heavyweights such as Rome: Total War and Company of Heroes. There’s a consensus in the PC world that the realm of the RTS isn’t what it used to be.
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