Standalone Expansion for Sins of a Solar Empire
3.52 average rating based on 141 ratings
I'm old enough to have played Dune 2 and Warcraft 2 a few years after release. WC2 was a massive improvement in many ways, one of the major ones was being able to select multiple units (WC1 already had this too). In Dune 2 you had to give each unit separate orders. In Warcraft you can select a group and they are shown as icons to the left. If you kept a close eye you could save a unit by sending them away if their health got low.
So yeah, Sins doesn't have that. It has a crappy interface without a clear representation of the currently selected group. And even if you zoom in very far, it's still a mess of overlapping bits. The game wants you to select specific units to activate their abilities, but it doesn't give you the right tools to do that. And the game is real-time, without the option to pause to give orders. This worked in WC2 because of the clear representation, the lack of (the need to) zoom and the single area you have to look at. In Sins you can be fighting a bunch of battles on different parts of a gigantic …
I'm old enough to have played Dune 2 and Warcraft 2 a few years after release. WC2 was a massive improvement in many ways, one of the major ones was being able to select multiple units (WC1 already had this too). In Dune 2 you had to give each unit separate orders. In Warcraft you can select a group and they are shown as icons to the left. If you kept a close eye you could save a unit by sending them away if their health got low.
So yeah, Sins doesn't have that. It has a crappy interface without a clear representation of the currently selected group. And even if you zoom in very far, it's still a mess of overlapping bits. The game wants you to select specific units to activate their abilities, but it doesn't give you the right tools to do that. And the game is real-time, without the option to pause to give orders. This worked in WC2 because of the clear representation, the lack of (the need to) zoom and the single area you have to look at. In Sins you can be fighting a bunch of battles on different parts of a gigantic map. It just doesn't work.
I love Galactic Civilizations 2. I love Endless Space. And i've loved a bunch of RTS games from Dune 2 to Starcraft 2. But Sins isn't for me, and i put 15 hours into it because i really wanted it to click. Also, it doesn't help that there are only 3 races either, and they're all kinda same-y.