The three civilizations you can choose from - Trader Emergency Coalition, Vasari Empire and the Advent - each have their own personality, which is reflected in their overall aesthetic and technology trees. Since the combat and travel in the game all takes place around these habitable locations, there are chokepoints to be exploited and dead-end arms of the galaxy that are the interstellar equivalent of Australia in Risk. And since there are other civilizations in your galaxy doing the same thing, you'd better be quick about it, and be ready to fight for control of the areas where the empires eventually meet up. You want to build facilities to harvest the resource nodes around your home planet and then start exploring around you to see if there are any other habitable planets around. Where you go from there is entirely up to you. In brief, Sins of a Solar Empire starts each player out on a single planet with a shipyard and a little bit of cash. Still, if you're a player who loves bloodless victories, this isn't the game for you. Personally, we love it that way, because that's the approach we take in other empire-style games. Sure, you can engage in diplomacy, and sure you can spread your culture throughout the galaxy, and you can even leverage your economy to create conflicts between other players, but at the end of the day, all of those efforts are just designed to support your success in the massive fleet battles. Though we're calling this a 4X empire-style game, we should make clear that, like Destineer's Sword of the Stars, this is a game about war. That's not to say it's without flaws, but it does so many things right that you'll barely notice the few things that it gets wrong. Their recent Sins of a Solar Empire has totally captivated us, ever since our first experience with the beta and we're happy to say that the final game is every bit as good as we expected. Thankfully, the gang at Ironclad Games decided to show everyone how it should be done.
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