Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity Gameplay Trailer

by Jeff Mattas, Feb 04, 2010 4:00pm PST

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Ironclad Games is poised to release Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity on February 9. This bundle pack for their real-time sci-fi strategy hit includes the original standalone title, as well as the 'Entrenchment' and 'Diplomacy' expansions.

The soundless trailer shows off an epic in-game space battle in which spaceships, large and small, blast the hell out of each other with laser fire. Pew. Pew. Pew.

Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity comes out on February 9, for $39.95. As reported, the 'Diplomacy' add-on also debuts that day for $9.99 as a standalone purchase for those who already own the original game.

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It could have been a great space RTS, but instead it turned out like any other RTS because they added those specific routes to travel between planet sectors.

Feb 04, 2010 8:54pm PST

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It could have been a great space RTS, but instead it turned out like any other RTS because they added tho... : Mystery0000
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  It is a great space RTS. And many other great space RTS and TBS games use specific routes between stars ... : BlackKat13
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    There are plenty of other ways to introduce that kind of balance, the planet sectors are incredibly small... : Mystery0000
    - You can make a custom map and adjust the distances to a fairly fine degree. : SeraphielX
- Yeah, without the space lanes the game turns into galactic whack-a-mole. Believe me, it wasn't fun that ... : Zoomba77

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Okay, and here is why I just couldn't get into Sins. The footage in that trailer just isn't how you play that game. To coordinate your ships in any sort of meaningful way you have to zoom all the way out to the point where your ships are just symbols on a giant map of nodes. It ends up being a game of moving symbols around - where it almost resembles a boardgame or something.

The up-close battles are cool to watch, but you're not really doing anything at that point but watching.

Feb 04, 2010 5:12pm PST

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Okay, and here is why I just couldn't get into Sins. The footage in that trailer just isn't how you play ... : Enjoysoy
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- Go sit in the corner. : molaughlen
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  Yup, same syndrome as Supreme Commander. Trailers show you these battles with thousands of high detailed ... : FiReaNG3L
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    I preferred Sins to Supreme Commander, but I think SupCom executed a lot of really difficult concepts wel... : Sturm08
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      Or, here's a novel idea, give your orders, and zoom in to watch the fight. The game doesn't require by-th... : SpeedComraD
      
      Agreed. In Supcom, you also had the choice to queue up orders and automate certain elements so that you ... : silverback1138
      
      Exactly. It's really not hard to spin the mouse wheel and zoom all the way in to watch a capital ship ex... : Miller_TYM

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