Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion

By Wesley Yin-Poole Published 1 March, 2011

Stand-alone expansion revamps visuals.

Stardock has announced Rebellion, a stand-alone expansion to PC game Sins of a Solar Empire.

It features new factions, new ships, enhanced graphics and new victory conditions.

"Rebellion is the first stand-alone expansion to the Sins of a Solar Empire universe," said Stardock's director of publishing Brian Clair.

"Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion will add many new ships, refresh the visuals and integrate Impulse::Reactor features to support achievements, multiplayer leagues and much more."

The list of new features in full:

  • New Factions: Players decide whether to become Loyalists or Rebels, which unlocks a unique new tech tree granting them new technologies and ship variants.
  • New Titan-class ships:  Massive warships for each race that dwarf capital ships, these deadly new monsters are capable of wiping out entire enemy fleets single-handedly.
  • New Capital Ships:  A new capital ship class arrives, giving players new strategic options.
  • New Corvette-class ships:  Small, highly maneuverable light ships that are adept at a variety of tasks.
  • Loyalist and Rebel versions of some of the existing Sins' frigates and cruisers, each with their own unique strengths and weaknesses.
  • Updated lighting and particle effects for enhanced visuals.
  • New Victory Conditions to allow for more variety, differing strategies and shorter game sessions.
  • Additional capital ship ability levels, for greater strategic choice.
  • Impulse::Reactor support for chat, friends, achievements and more.

Stardock failed to announce a release date.

Kieron Gillen reviewed Sins of a Solar Empire for Eurogamer back in March 2008, awarding it a 9/10.

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Comments (14) Latest comment 1 year ago

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  • gjgjg #1 1 year ago

    cool, good to see theres life in the old girl. I recommend this to all rts fans who didnt take the plunge
    Edited by gjgjg at 01/03/11 @ 20:25

  • SixFootHalfling #2 1 year ago

    "New Titan-class ships: Massive warships for each race that dwarf capital ships, these deadly new monsters are capable of wiping out entire enemy fleets single-handedly."

    So Titans from EVE Online 2 years ago? At least change the name ffs

    Minor theft aside, new Sins is always a good thing.

  • Inigo #3 1 year ago

    ooooo, interesting. I would have thought that they should have just went straight to SINs 2, can't complain when the mini-expansions they did where such good value.

  • hiddenranbir #4 1 year ago

    Meh...so just playing around with new ships?

  • Eraysor #5 1 year ago

    I've moved on to AI War unfortunately...though maybe the idea here is to bring people back from that. This game does have the major disadvantage of not being on Steam too.

  • MadDave123 #6 1 year ago

    @SixFootHalfling

    So what if they call the new massive ships Titans? Practically every other ship class from most sci-fi games, TV and film is named in a similar fashion. Fighters, bombers, cruisers, destroyers, battle cruisers, motherships, etc etc.

    What else should they call them, Big Daddies? Oh wait...

  • ExplodingClown #7 1 year ago

    A proper campaign would be good. If you don't like multiplayer, the skirmishes in Sins are fun but lack a certain something.

  • OliverH #8 1 year ago

    @sixfoothalfling

    You're a young one, aren't you? A titan class of starships existed ages before Eve Online. They already existed back in Master of Orion 2, second only to "that is no moon" Doomstars (They could hardly call them Death Stars) in size. And even in MOO, there was a ship called "Titan"

  • Scopeh #9 1 year ago

    There is a god...He heard my prayers :D

  • deadduckz #10 1 year ago

    Titans, lol sounds a bit like EVE Online to me

  • dnd #11 1 year ago

    @eraysor

    I'm pretty sure sins is on steam.

  • wayne040576 #12 1 year ago

    @dnd It's not on Steam. None of the games published by stardock are on it because it's a competitor to their own service.

  • IainMcKenzie #13 1 year ago

    It's not on Steam because the makers Stardock tout their own service Impulse instead and have had a bitch before about not wanting to sell Steamworks games on their service which force their customers to start using Steam.

  • nuanimal #14 1 year ago

    This is a great game - if you're interested you can get "Sins of a Solar Empire - Trinity" (contains the original game plus all previous expansions) for about a tenner form GAME or Amazon.

    Well worth a look.

    Edit: Spelling!
    Edited by nuanimal at 02/03/11 @ 09:19