Please support Game Informer. Print magazine subscriptions are less than $2 per issue
Sins Of A Solar Empire: Rebellion Announced
Ironclad Games and Stardock unveiled a big expansion to the lauded real-time strategy title today. Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion adds a wealth of ships, factions, and features to the already rich mix.
If you're not familiar with Sins of a Solar Empire, you should be. The 2008 RTS combined 4X concepts of exploration and expansion into its epic space battle core. It's not only a fantastic innovative twist on RTS, but it approaches Blizzard levels of polish – and runs on just about any PC manufactured in the last seven years or so. I can't sing its praises highly enough.
Back to the announcement at hand: Each of the three races has Loyalist and Rebel tribes in Rebellion, with their own tech trees and ship variants. Doubling the factions to six (sort, of anyway) will add a lot of additional variety.
The roster of ships has been dramatically widened. From largest to smallest, Rebellion adds:
- Titan-class vessels – the capital's capital. Think of Return of the Jedi's Executor, without the crippling A-wing-through-the-bridge vulnerability.
- New capital class – we have no details, but a new type of capital ship will broaden tactical possibilities.
- Corvette-class ships – I'm not really sure what these are. The press release calls them "small, highly maneuverable light ships that are adept at a variety of tasks." But we already have frigates for that…maybe these are somewhere between frigates and carrier-launched strikecraft?
On the backend, Rebellion uses Stardock's Impulse::Reactor technology to power achievements and multiplayer leagues among other things. Sins already has a solid multiplayer implementation, so this is great news. Personally, I'm hoping that there's more than incidental support for cooperative comp-stomping. That's the best way to play Sins, and I'd love to get a more robust feature set around it.
Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion is scheduled to release late this year.
I’d like to ask you to support Game Informer’s continued coverage of games with a subscription. For less than two dollars per issue, we mail you a full year of 10 print magazines, each with cover stories and preview features filled with exclusive details about the most exciting upcoming games. We profile and interview game creators. We look back on the rich history of gaming, and we celebrate what’s next.
Here on the website, we offer much of our content for free, including game reviews, daily news, videos, event coverage, and more – all with minimal ads.
We do so with a small editorial team, alongside contributing paid writers from around the world – over 65 individuals from 9 countries around the world, just in the last couple of years.
It’s not possible without support.
In a time when game makers and games coverage have faced hard struggles and layoffs, the future of this 30+ year magazine and community is at risk. Our new standalone magazine subscription is the number one way you can keep us alive – and we believe you’ll get a pretty fantastic gaming magazine in your mailbox every few weeks for your trouble.
Thank you.
