Gal Civ II & Sins of a Solar Empire Featured in IGN’s Cheers and Tears

Published on August 6, 2009 By Island Dog In PC Gaming

IGN.com has a feature called ‘Cheers and Tears’ which highlight games that “Five games that challenge your tactics, and five that challenge your patience.” This edition is all about strategy games, and both Galactic Civilizations II and Sins of a Solar Empire are featured!

What Civilization IV did for the historical 4X game, Galactic Civilizations II did for the space empire games. The team at Stardock had already resurrected the genre with the original Galactic Empires, but the sequel took things to the next level with more polish and sophistication.

People had sort of assumed that you couldn't do a high level 4X game that ran in real time and included tactical battles. And then Stardock and Ironclad Games showed us just how to do it. Sins of a Solar Empire perfectly balanced the scale, details and speed of each game style, mixing the best parts of Galactic Civilizations and Homeworld without losing any of the core strengths of either game.

Read the full article over at IGN.com.

Comments

Spartan

on Aug 06, 2009

Good news! Be sure to file it under "must use accolades" as well as the other recent article about both games for GCIII and SinsII.

Bingjack

on Aug 06, 2009

Congrats again!

BTW, theres an ongoing thread on this Here , if anyone was interested.

Gormoth1

on Aug 11, 2009

I was one of the firsts to purchase and play the first GalCiv, and I'm a huge fan of turn-based space strategy games a la Master of Orion, but I have to say that Sins of a Solar Empire is by far the better of the two. Amazing fusion between the genres: all the action, none of the tedious micromanagement. All the strategic thinking and resource management, none of the 'pass the damn turn already!' syndrome in mid-late games that a bog down turn-based games. Really excellent.

Improve the diplomacy, and you've got yourselves a pure classic in years to come.

pypo434p

on Aug 11, 2009

when can we expect a new Add on to Sin of Solar ???

OsirisDawn

on Aug 14, 2009

pypo434p

reply 4

hi

when can we expect a new Add on to Sin of Solar ???

Last info was Summer 2009, but my bet is Q4 2009.

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