Recent reviews by Dodger666

Great game, friendly community, very active and engaged developers. It does still have a number of bugs, but the devs are actively fixing them and quickly introducing hotfix patches. Co-Op works just fine, multiplayer is fun, the characters are extremely customizable.

This was the first Sins game I ever played - and the only one so far - and I bought it for the mods. I also played it for the mods, and I pestered my friends to get it for the mods.

Basically, It is a good Space RTS, but it is nothing really special. There are newer, flashier, nicer ones, that can do almost everything this one can and more. But.

There is a very active modding community over on moddb, that have churned out full conversion mods enabling you to turn your gamenot just into a fairly detailed Star Wars or Star Trek Space RTS, but into anything!

You always wanted to fight Space battles with these Halo ships? Done!
You figured, if they had given you more than one ship in Mass Effect, the Reapers would have been toast? Prove it!
Staying alive in Battlestar Galactica can't have been THAT hard? Show 'em!

And the beauty is, all these mods, which are at least as detailed as the base game, ifnot more so, are completely free and can be swapped with relative ease. So buy the game. You will not just buy one game but a cool dozen.

Got into it quite early in the Beta, when it was still a bit of a buggy mess. You still played it, because it was fun. The learning curve is nothing to laugh about, and it is not exactly the noobfriendliest of communities, especially some of the first players sometimes lack the nerves to deal with new players.
Once you get into it though, you will have an awesome experience. Highly tactical, once you get off "Soldier"-difficulty, relies 100% on each teammate.

By now the game has several different maps, playable on 4 difficulties and a handful of different modes that change up the experience like the "Red Storm" mode where you are weak when outside of buildings, but stronger inside, or swarm and fast modes that increase the pressure on your squad. All with 8 different classes, completely customizable with different weapons and abilities, that have to be utilized harmoniously to win.

Protip: Get a mic. Theres a central TRS teamspeak server, that anyone in the game lobby can give you, and coordinating an 8 man team is just so much easier with voice. Learning the game and getting taught will be 10 times faster if you go on ts with one or two of your squadmates.

The best way to get into it would be to grab a few freinds, put it on easy, and just jump into it. You will die. A LOT. but thats fine, and you will have fun getting to know all the different abilities and weapons before getting on with the pros who might be more interested in winning than teaching.

Sadly, this game has a very small player base, so don't expect to play 8 man games 24/7. There are high times each day, where there are usually 2-4 different games going on, but expect to do some waiting in lobby for members. However, this means that you get to know people very quickly, and if you are somewhat nice and don't harass people, you will be welcomed in the community.