Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Review
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- čas přidán 25. 06. 2024
- Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion is the latest standalone expansion to the real-time space RTS 4X hybrid game: the RT4X! No worries you don't like the setting as your favorite one is already an overhaul mod that turns it all into Halo, Mass Effect, Star Wars, or something more obscure.
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00:00 - Intro
00:12 - Background
01:35 - Game Premise
05:50 - Visuals
09:45 - Music & Sound Design
13:02 - Gameplay Mechanics
19:26 - Conclusions
20:08 - Credits
21:16 - They're Back
#sinsofasolarempire #rts #games #gaming - Hry
Sins of a Solar Empire on GOG - gog.la/SpaceModPlatform
THE LIST - docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_K3ziSxT9zcUUGCddS4sF1uNJTWHSbOwB1CQX2Rx4Uo
I have plans to do a standalone video for only ONE Sins mod so far, as I don't want to fall too deep into that rabbit hole.
grat vid cant wat for more sorry for the spelling
I been waiting for this. I been watching the list. Waiting
Holy crap, this game.... Damn. I still have a copy but have no clue getting past the stupid account access that I gave up in the past.
Still awesome game that one time I finished a playthrough.
Fall into that rabbit hole, Mr. Mandalore.
HOGS of WAR or SWINE video/videos confrimed??? BASED Mandalor.
Ahh yes sins of a solar empire rebellion the best Star Trek game ever made...
Star Trek of the old Warhammer: Reach
Nah, that would be Elite Force games.
Yeah, i was so confused when i wanted to play Star Trek Armada 3 and ended at Solar Empire, thats how i discovered this gem
age of mythology is better than age of empires 2
Playing as the Borg was the most fun thing ever especially in an online match
Thank you so much for taking the time to review this game! It's a classic that's near and dear to a lot of the team. We hope when the time comes you'll enjoy Sins II just as much
Thank you Stardock, you should celebrate by letting TEC Loyalists build 3 starbases in a planetary gravity well.
@@MandaloreGaming oh please this
@@MandaloreGaminggod please no
@@MandaloreGamingAll TEC wanted was to live in peace and trade: (
Awesome game, one of the first we used to play using Cat 5 cables between computers. Thanks for making one of the few I could stably play back in the day.
"Now, near 20 years after launch"
Did not need to hear that.
Im pretty sure sins was Released three years ago
Something to be proud of though, not unlike how the much older Doom still has new stuff like the SIGIL mods.
Holy crap it's been that long!? And the game still looks good and holds up to this day.
@@JazonCalderon Your comment duplicated.
@@michaelandreipalon359 fixed, thanks!
Hey there! Thank you so much for the video (really caught me off guard since I subscribed for the Mystery of the Druids video LOL)! We're working very hard on SINS2, the amount of passion that is going into SINS2 is insane. A lot of the team is made up of SINS1 modders/super fans. We're also working hard to make sure the game is as mod friendly as possible, and we CONSTANTLY discuss whether or not things are lore friendly (even as the VFX artist).
audio concern is noted ;)
As someone who was inspired to pursue game design as a kid by following the development of Sins 1, this is great to hear ❤
Have you guys thought about adding support for campaigns even if you don't intend to make one of your own? Something like Warcraft 3 where you could create custom campaigns. That way you open the way for even more fan content without being forced to devote a ton of resources into making your own campaign.
If you do something similar to the "mass hysteria" ability that one of the Advent ships could do, please make it the audio that plays a bit less nightmare fuel.
A friend and I used that once in a Co-Op game and swore never to use it again unless we both muted the audio first.
😮
YOO
Sins of a Solar Empire was one of those series that's always been on my periphery. Like, I knew it was huge... 'somewhere'.
Same
Sins sometimes feels like Fight Club.
Never played it, did consider to play it. It sounds pretty neat!
I went my whole life thinking it was a Masters of Orion clone. I had never seen actual gameplay. This looks like space Total War which is my absolute jam.
@@MandaloreGaming Paradox clearly ignored it as they made Stellaris and took a big step back. But Stellaris is good now but more like Soap made off Sins-fat-cut-offs good.
One of my favorite aspects of a Mandalore video is going into the comments and seeing developers who worked on the game get to talk so passionately about something and sometimes give us trivia or something. Its nice. I'm glad the comment sections are welcoming like that! :)
Ironclad chiefly are the developers in collaboration with Stardock, who publish the video game also.
I remember buying the base game for cheap off of a GAME shelf back when I was a kid, only to find out years later there was DLC and a whole modding scene, still blows my mind what people have done with a game I used to play as capital ship only cause using fleets was too complicated for my baby brain
YOU 🫵
WHAT about them mcchickens amirite
I just wish I had friends to play the game with, preferably friends at my skill level since I am above novice but not one of the pros for sure
I was at a LAN party and we played the biggest game of SINS we could. 16 stars.
To put it into perspective. The map was SO BIG that my friend sent ships to come help me. I fell asleep at my computer and woke up when they arrived. This game is magical
Oh god no, you showed our iconoclast destroyer. I was one of two or three people that made the attempt at the battlefleet gothic mod. It was very much a high school and early college project, and it burned out when we did, which I think is a shame. The models got pretty decent and because I tried an experiment in gameplay that didn't pan out and burned out when it didn't work out well, which feels like a waste.
That said, if anyone's curious about modding the game or that mod, I can answer questions.
Why is the AI so mean? 🥺
Could you somehow copy and paste the models from the official Battlefleet Gothic games into SoaSE?
@@Brother_O4TS I know that the sins models are in a proprietary format, fortunately one that iirc is reasonably easy to convert out of from blender. The main thing you need to do are have anchor points for the ability and weapon effects to spawn from. It's been over a decade and I wasn't the modeler half of the team, I did the rest of the code, so I don't remember all the particulars.
@@pilotwhaleproductions5880ikr D;
How did you learn modding? Also was it imported or did someone model it? Because it would be really impressive if it got made from scratch.
I've burned so many hours in this game even before the mods came in! Such a classic.
Same. The base game was always amazing.
Got mod recommendations?
@@yaelz6043 Star Trek Armada 3 is phenomenal. There's a couple Star Wars one, both are good. Battlestar Galactica one is good too.
@@yaelz6043 Sins of the Prophets is a fantastic mod, especially if you like halo
Man this one brings back a ton of memories. One of my favorites:
My older brother had a friend who had an external hard drive full of pirated/cracked games and we would constantly get groups together to do LAN parties. This was one we frequented a LOT. I’ll never forget this one free for all match. we didn’t see one of our friends for a majority of the match. Slowly over time the match was getting more and more laggy, which was kind of normal for how much stuff was going on, and then all of a sudden the game starts slowing down a LOT. One of us starts dying laughing and tells us to come look. We all go over to his screen, and just see a massive unending red colored blob jumping towards his systems. turns out buddy who was MIA had found some nice pocket where he was left to his own devices and just quietly did research and upped his pop cap until he capped it out entirely with scouts. Game ended up turning into a PowerPoint slideshow and we thought it was the funniest thing. I vividly remember laughing so hard I started crying.
Games after that naturally turned into a “who could bring the game to a screaming halt via scouts” competition.
Miss the hell out of those days, thanks for bringing back some nostalgia. :’)
"The Unity has detected a pirate raid" made me instinctively try to zoom out into the Galaxy map to see where the raid was occurring.
I may have played this game a ton back in the day.
i have the corvette dialogue for the advent burned into my psyche, i loved this game.
Laughs in TEC Rebels.
That almost silent Empire Earth "WE ARE UNDER ATTACK" got me rolling. I see what you did there Mandy
I missed that but i did get yuri on ice
Man, I miss EE. Another RTS franchise that got run into the ground
@@Lesquidliestone Playing EE1 with my little brother on the family computer is one of my core memories.
@@Lesquidliestone I remember replacing the WE ARE UNDER ATTACK sound with a file that's just silence, because it was driving me insane in the campaign.
@@Stingraysquad Same, except I was the little brother in that equation. Good times. Did I get rolled by my much older brother and dad? Absolutely. But I had a darn good time regardless.
"Pigs... Lots of pigs."
A machine, you might say?
EDIT: I was correct.
S.W.I.N.E ?
@@reefta If Mandy covers S.W.I.N.E. he'll truly cement himself as THE niche game connoisseur
Maybe Hogs of War?
I cant remember
Here I was thinking like tooth and tail or something
"There is work to be done, are you interested?" Will be forever burned into my brain.
I have so many random lines, "our patience for such failure is RUNNING OUT!" "your lack of commitment will not go unpunished" "keep up the good work, and we'll stay on friendly terms"
Sins was my favorite grand strategy game in college because my only "gaming machine" was a crappy 4 year old laptop the school gave me for free because of my major. It couldn't run skyrim over 5fps, but it ran Sins smooth as butter even with hundreds of ships on screen. Because the developers built its engine from absolute scratch and knew what they were doing. Its a freaking technological marvel.
I feel like that has more to do with Bethesda being awful and less to do with your crappy school computer lol
@@TannerWilliam07 The problem being that in the years since, the industry standard has moved closer to Bethesda.
(looks meaningfully in the direction of _Lost Epoch.*)_
*A _Diablo_ clone that broke it's MSQ if you dared to teleport back to town between the wrong couple of story beats. _After_ full release and quite some time in Early Access. Yes, fixed in a couple days, but still.
@@TannerWilliam07🙄
I know, it was so well-optimised that you could run it on a bathroom scale.
It wasn't always that way. It was never bad, but there were some quite popular big performance mods early on. The devs took notice though and greatly optimized it since.
“Kush-less kushan”
My fucking bones lmao
Perfect use of Empire Earth's "We are under attack!" for the Carnival Cruise clip
This game and supreme commander are the reason why I fell in love with RTS games. So good
BEHOLD MY CREATIONS!
That line from the Hoshiko frigate[?] is burned into my subconsciousness.
I'VE BEEN THINKING!
I think that was the TEC Tactical Support Cruiser but I honestly don't remember.
@@atlantiswolf TEC "Command Cruiser," technically.
@@Karmag555 Yes thank you. I forgot the name of it.
ALL POWER TO JUMP DRIVES
WE ARE ENTERING PHASSSSSSE SPACE!
Ahhhh Vasari, my beloved. I shall never forget their voice lines
MY POWER IS UNMATCHED
12:39 activated my check the pirates menu response
and yuris revenge on ice floored me dawg
"It invokes a bit of Homeworld Cataclysm, my beloved,"
A man of taste I see
Yes he is he even did a review
@@hynekschreiber241 i know, just happy to hear Cataclysm left it's mark :)
Shit goes hard
None of our hardware could ever keep up with any campaign lasting longer than six hours without almost snails pace timelag. Add to that the frequent desyncs in multiplayer. This game was years ahead of the technology that had to carry it and still managed to be fantastic. And yet despite all those issues, my friends and I still kept coming back to it, which really is a testament to it's outstanding quality. We have high hopes for the sequel.
How you know your youth is truly behind you, when mandalore gaming reviews a game you were playing in highschool.
I was playing this at university… (withers from age)
There was that time when Sins of a Solar Empire and Supreme Commander absolutely dominated our LAN game days and it was GLORIOUS.
God... i dont know how or when i randomly bought this game but i frequently come back to it as a comfort game... it is a hidden gem in my book... wanted to say getting lost in the sauce i would always zoom in everytime a titan or capital ship would go down since it was like slaying a dragon... that sound track always made me lost in space... seeing all these old obscure games mando constantly do and waiting for the day he finally did this one is like celebration
As someone who first picked up sins in like 09 its great to see you make a video on this.
This and endless space 2 are the two most under rated spsce games to me, i love them both to bits
Man I played Sins so much when I was a kid, the gameplay is top notch and no other space RTS can beat it when it comes to grand scale space battles, watching dozens of ships fighting alongside space stations and titans was just so good. Amazing review man.
Exactly, the sound, the space boxes also really helped set the scene!
For a while I was trying to hunt down a Star Trek RTS I loved playing and it took a lot of vague discriptions to realize it was the Sins mod. It's an amazing framework and I'm glad it's still getting so much community and dev support.
Mass Effect ost background always warms my heart. Cool game - gotta play. Thx!
What I remember most about Sins was the surprisingly thick manual it came with full of lore stuff, even crew numbers on ships. In school we were reading Ender's Game at the time and it was everything I was already picturing in my head so the game has stuck with me forever.
For years I have commented on this channel trying to get him to review this GOATed game. Finally, NONE SHALL OPPOSE ME.
This game has infested my brain, I sometimes just walk down the road and some of the ships voice promts just assault my mind
"There secrets shall be revealed!"
The halo overhaul mod is the only reason I bought this game years ago and oh man it's still one of my most played games in my library
My favorite voice clip is when you order a TEC colony ship to attack something, and the captains dismayed affirmative "All right, if you say so.." or some such, and you can tell he thinks you're sending a bunch of colonists to their doom.
What a lovely game. Pure nostalgia. Can't wait for the sequel.
I'm so hyped for the possibility of a Mandalore review of Half-Life 2 Cinematic Mod.
12:45
I don't know why, but of all the different sound clips and voice lines, it's that one that kicks me in the nostalgia.
This is the best review I have ever seen of this game. I love this game and all the micro-lore it has with the little things. "Bringing out the big guns!"
10:30
I actually made a mod that reduces the volume of the ultra-loud Titan abilities specifically, called Quieter Titan Abilities; it's up for download on the Sins of a Solar Empire Nexus.
As always, thank you again for making this content! I truly appreciate all the years that you've dedicated to this channel, and cannot stress how much It has helped me and been something to aspire to.
I remember looking at the box and reading it in the store and thinking to myself "That sounds too good to be true" but bought it anyways, and it was not only all that was promised, but much, much more. A favourite for many years and I still play its mods to this day. Absolute masterpiece of a game.
Oh man what a delight to see you review this. This was one of the 4xrtswhateveryouwannacallit games that got me into the genre. I picked it up from my local library years ago and had a blast playing skirmish mode. I was definitely awful at the game but remember being so wowed by the fact you could zoom in to individual ships and seamlessly zoom out to a system level. That shit blew my mind at the time. Was super happy to find out that the exe had no disc requirement so even after i had to return it i got to keep on playing it. Definitely brought back some fond memories.
Thank you MandaloreGaming as always for some of the best retrospectives on youtube, just ONE slight request... When you inter cut other games into your videos for comparison can you please put some text on screen to tell us what game it is you are showing? Would help heaps!
Played this game with my brother a lot when we were younger, died last year. Thanks for the nice memory!
Wow this looks really fun! Discovered you channel recently, you're really succinct and easy to follow.
Was not expecting an Elite Dangerous reference. It'd be fun to see a re-review of it some time now with Oddesy out, but I get that'd probably be a lower priority.
I like that you can record a replay and watch what happened during the game in a zoomed in, cinematic way.
I’m glad to know you’re a fan of Legend of the galactic heroes. I always suspected but it’s nice to confirm
Great review of this classic! You made me want to start playing again...
shoutouts to u for havingsuch great captioning for your videos
I'm so glad you're covering this game! It's a real classic!
If theres no babylon 5 mod, im quitting this continent
my fav youtuber covering my fav game
nice thing to wake up to, great vid!
OH MY YES. I've been waiting for this review!
Futurama total conversion mod?
"Sir, I volunteer for a suicide mission!"
"Don't you worry, soldier. When I'm in charge, EVERY mission is a suicide mission!"
Love that this game so much. I have not played it for a bit, but that segment just listening to the music and sound effects brought back all those great memories. Thank you for reviewing this game
So happy to hear the Cheetahmen music in the background
Always appreciate when a video starts with Kirby Air Ride music. I think I have this game lurking in my library from a Humble Bundle, so I'll have to check it out.
Great video as always, now you can focus on what really matters. Hope that Rogue Trader review comes out soon.
It is wild that I JUST started playing Sins of the Prophets and we get a video on the base game XD Great video as always Mandy, keep up the amazing work!
I'll play it when Dawn of Victory finally comes out for it.
Templin doing us all dirty with that comment. After working on STA3 for so long, playing other Sins mods, seeing what they did different was always a treat.
So after the sun goes cold? I am told it will take that long till Dawn of Victory will be ready.
I absolutely have a soft spot in my heart for this game. Played it plenty with friends growing up and we always had a blast. Thank you for covering this (and getting me to reinstall it again)
The "I, Revan" cover on the "something sci-fi" section in the beginning is genius.
...I did not notice that was a KotOR reference until now.
Thanks for the video, i had a mix bag of a day and this have made me smile
Wow such a blast from the past, loved this game all those years ago!
Oh man i forgot about this series. Great friday video thank you Mandy
Love this game! Glad you made a video about it, thank you!
I still have my disk version of this game. Its awesome to see content still being made for this great game.
Ahh this brings me way back to. I remember being a kid and being fascinated by the intros cinematic, I think that might’ve been the first time I really got interested in and wanted to know the lore of a video game.
This game series has been in my "Steam Sale" backlog for a while. Due to having little time to play games at the time, and how everyone I know talk about how complex it was, it was shelved for a while because I didn't want to learn a new game. This video has convinced me to give it a serious look now.
I loved playing this game as a kid! It brings back so many memories. Like the music unlocked images in my brain 😂
your videos are wonderfull and so are you, thanks for makeing these high quality reviews
oh shit it rimed
Such a classic game, thanks for reveiwing!
My friends and I started playing this game in more recent years, about 2019 and forwards, and it had been such a blast. It still holds up as a great basic but highly in depth RTS that I love playing. Unfortunately haven't been able to get back into it, but maybe someday. My favorite faction is Vasari Loyalist, the voice actors did a great job conveying their vibe and ferocity of an alien race doomed to travel the stars.
The best example for VA work in this game is the Advent Loyalist Titan. I can feel the wrinkles in actor's face when give an attack order...
"They will join us! OR DIE!!!"
Man im so glad to see you reviewing this game. This game was my childhood. Ive tried so so many 4x space games over the years and nothing has been aboe to hold me like sins has. Brb gonna go reinstall sins.
Mandy had blessed us with a review of one of my favorite games
RT4X seems like an interesting genre. There is a limited number of games that try to thread the needle to have the best of both worlds - good tempo but also not being neither too hectic nor complex.
Wow! I played this when it was new and loved it. I had no idea it’s been constantly updated for 20 years. Need to go play it again. Thanks.
I have good memories with this franchise, one the most solid space rts games out there, simple yet entertaining.
Sins is my get high and watch space battles game. I have a special place for it in my heart.
I've been waiting for this video for years!!(also yeah the music is so good and no one talks about it for some reason)
Still one of the best RTS ever made in my eyes. I have fond memories of playing this with my friends. Before they patched it, I would always troll one of my friends by placing a ridiculous bounty that would spawn doomstack pirate fleets. Good times.
This game to me is the pinnacle of “bought it on steam sale and never touched once” games in my library: a sci fi single player focused RTS. This inspires me to give it a shot
I still play SINS to this day, started my freshman year of HS, and how i met my best friend. Brother 14 years goes by too fast haha glad you covered this game!!
Dear gods Mandalore, I love this series and this vid was such a surprise.
Thank you man.
LETS GO! Love this game, and the mods born from it are absolutely legendary
Mandalore mostly reviews games I havent played, but when he reviews a game ive played, i save the vid for a special day, or lunch time.
I cannot express how much we NEED to find out more about theater the Vasari are running from.
Also Vasari having MF'ing STARSCREAM as your adjutant is peak.
I got the game at like 11 years old for Christmas when I asked for something else and I dove way deep into this game as a teenager. I had a laptop I had dedicated to playing as the Advent through all the dlc/expansions all the way through college. When it finally got stale I downloaded the star wars total conversion. This game is a hidden gem I thought noone else played outside of the small community I played with online
The Logh and Halo mods are very impressive since besides the custom music, voice acting and mods, their franchises are rip for large scale space combat and seeing hundreds of invidiual fighters duke it has always looked awesome
The Battlestar Galactica mod for this game was *chef's kiss*
Sins of a Solar Empire is one of those games i keep getting back to with friends not only because of nostalgia but because it's very good and there's just no other game quite like it.
I physically started vibrating in my seat as I saw Mandalore is covering one of my favourite games of all time.
A RTS game... Not expect that. Large thanks!!! I have 2 games in my childhood about galaxy strategy stuff, that I played: Sins of a Solar Empire, and.... Sword of the Starts.... Sword of the Starts - basically is the opposite of Sins of a Solar Empire: it is very hard to understand, but still is very fun to play. You can take a look if interested.
Also, I want to recommend 2 old RTS, "Starcraft like" in which you also could be interested (because they are still good):
1. Universe at War: Earth Assault (year 2007)
2. Earth 2160 (year 2005)
Again, thanks for the video! Keep up the good work!
Goddamn you’ve blown up man, congratulations. I remember the earl days
Way to make me feel old. In Grade School, I was playing Space Empires II, Gravity Well, Critical Mass, and Stars!
Stars! Holy hell taking me back. It was like a Windows 3.11 spreadsheet "game", if you could call it that.
You forgot to mention that the Vassari (I don't remember how to spell their faction) can create portals and travel directly between planets as long as both have portals. It's something that in late game give them some sort of benefit once several portals are built