

Having three completely new races to explore can be quite overwhelming… so the Dark Reavers Mod only introduces one. Originally released in 2008, it combined the best of RTS games and 4X games to create a wonderfully ruthless space-based strategy experience where you had fleets of capital and sub-capital ships dancing around from system to system as you fought for dominance over randomised maps. Gameplay changes are made as well, placing even more emphasis on combat so research, economics, and diplomacy become less important. This has been around for so long that it’s been migrated quite a few times.

E4X attempts to rebalance things by including new mechanics such as Hero units, new sub factions, encounters, new ship upgrades, even new espionage mechanics to go with diplomacy. Sins of a Solar Empire was a great entry strategy game for its time. In my opinion Sacrifice of Angels 2 is one of the most well developed mods for Sins of a Solar Empire.

EDITORS' CHOICE - GameSpy "Scroll smoothly from a single fighter out to a god's-eye view of a cluster of stars gives an unmatched sense of scale." TRINITY WALLPAPER.
