Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity Gameplay Trailer
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 soundle
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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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.