Hellfire999

Yes, and they leave behind floating debris. They explosions don't connect real well (the model just disappears rather than breaking apart), but I like 'em myself.

The reason that some of the screens look like that is simply because they werent in high res or on lower graphics settings. On my machine, the game looks great.

Empire at War had the BEST capital ship deaths I've ever seen. Whole sections would break apart and the entire thing would just drift towards the planet for the rest of the fight.

Homeworld 2 weren't much better than SoaSE, as they do the same thing. A few explosions, BOOM, model goes away, all that's left is debris.

The explosions themselves aren't as epic as HW2's were though.

Its not very important, but it still surprises me that Sins has pretty awful explosions compared to what we've seen in the past....must be hard to make a decent explosion sequence since like, the majority of space sims and space RTS's habitually miss the boat here.

It would help if the explosions were at least more tightly tied to the dissapearance of the model...I never thought I'd look back on HW2's 'white-out' effect as an elegant solution to this problem but this's a little ridiculous.

As it is, I weakly rationalize that the target is imploding before exploding but somehow I don't think that's what Stardock was going for...

Sometimes I just look away when something Novas and imagine up a better explosion myself, which is not the kind of work I expect to do as a player.

Personally, I think the visual presentation in this game is fantastic, especially when you consider the scale of things. Being able to smoothly zoom from close in on a tiny fighter all the way out to a solar system view and back again really is quite epic.