Starwars forces of corruption or sins?

First of all, Forces of Corruption is an expansion pack to the original Star Wars: Empire at War.

I can't say I've played Homeworld, but I have played EaW extensively. It has a very C and C feel with the included ground battles, and it has some interesting use of scouting, bounty hunters, diplomacy, etc. It doesn't have the scale that Sins has, though, but the graphics in EaW definitely outshine Sins, especially the cinematic camera, if that kind of thing is important to you. Games in EaW are also substantially shorter than games in Sins.

Hope some of that is helpful.

To be honest, I don't think either game is really similar to Homeworld, other than being set in space. Homeworld is a straight RTS, whereas the other two games are more empire management with RTS elements.

EaW has better graphics, and the theming is great if you're looking for a Star Wars game. It doesn't feel as epic as Sins, though. Also, everything in Sins happens in real time. In EaW, when you start a battle, it pauses everything that happens on the galactic map until the battle is resolved.

Sins looks more like Homeworld, neither game plays anything like Homeworld.

oooo, this is hard as I love both games.......
Starwars has campaign and free game missions, but hardly anything sandbox like and bad online IMO.
Sins of a solar empire has no campaign but awesome online play and is a sandbox.

Sins has only space
starwars has both land and space.


Hmmm, you can try the demo first to see if your like sins and i believe SW : EAW FOC also has one.

Graphics definitely do not match sins.

Definitely NOT when you are viewing the strategic, galactic map !

It then looks at least 5 years behind SINS's level of representation of a « cosmic » environment.

But I suppose that you are refering to the graphics during ship-to-ship, tactical combat.

(Those I cannot evaluate since I only played EAW on the grand-strategic scale, asking the computer to rapidly simulate the space battles.)

Are you insane? Did EaW even have proper speculars? All I remember is the ships looking exactly the same wherever they were in the battle, regardless of relative position to light sources, weapon fire, etc.

I don't see how there can even be debate about the graphics, Sins is definitely the prettier of the two. As to gameplay, the best way to get a sense of that is to play the demo for Sins. It should be immediately apparent whether you enjoy it or not.

I would argue that watching the battles in Star Wars EaW as ships and the camera zoom around dynamically was more visually appealing than watching two huge fleets sit still and pew pew at each other in Sins, but that's a subjective opinion at best.

I bought Star Wars: Empire at War when it was first released. Played it for a week and it's been collecting dust eversince.

Sins is the kind of game that will entertain you for well over a year. There is a lot to it, and once you have mastered one faction it will be time to learn to play as another. There are three factions.

I'm still trying to master Advent. I've been playing as them for over a month, and I still haven't perfected it.

Well, that's not graphics, its visual style. There are a lot more fighters and a lot fewer capital ships in Star Wars, so battles are inevitably going to look more dynamic, it's true. It's all a matter of what you like, really. Sins looks a lot like B5, EAW looks a lot, unsuprisingly, like Star Wars. Tastes will vary as to which is the better style.

Thanks for the answers to my question, but what about ship movement, do capital ships move like big, slow giants or like phony fighters turning on a dime in outerspace?. I would rather have a little less eye candy and a lot more Babylon 5 cap ship movement in any space game

No, they move very, very slowly, and during battles once they are in range, they barely move at all. The only swooping ships are fighters and bombers.

The capital ships seem to turn around a lot slower than the smaller ships, but they do move fast when moving straight. They are slower overall. I think with the new patch, they will move even faster.

Do a search on YouTube if you don't want to try the demo. That is what sold me. Here's a video for You Tube Video of Sins

There is really nothing like home world as far as I know but home world. If you're looking for another home world game and you've played homeworld and homeworld 2 why not try Homeworld Cataclysm? I never did play Homeworld 2, is it any good? I might have to go out and try and find a copy of it in a bargin bin or something.

I think the ships in SIN move beautifully. If you get a giant fleet and have it set to destroy a bunch of things you can watch it in cinema mode it looks cool. They move like fish in a school if you ask me.

Serondal
Homeworld 2 is a great game and I easily recommend it to everyone who likes to go out into space and do some realistic space naval combat using a ocean navy ship class of strength and weaknesses, for example frigates no matter their weapon load will be quickly beaten by a destroyer unless, like the real navy you have a number of them in a taskforce configuration and concentrate all of your firepower on that one destroyer and even then it is ify  
If want to try buying Hw2 may I suggest you look on Ebay for a new on at a good price.

Homeworld2 is definitely a great game it's the main reason I have hope for sins mp which I havent tried yet. I will say though that once you've played sins, HW2 will really feel dated IMO.

Mentalassassin
I think you have answered that one important and nagging question for me, it true that I had become spoil to Homeworld2 and use that game as a standard to measure other games, but after playing Sins I found myself playing Sins more and more until I left Homeworld and moved in with Sins.
Thanks for bringing me out of the dark ages  

Homeworld is Homeworld. Nothing will EVER come even close to it. All three games are simply godly awesome, and not even sins manage to be as good as any of them.

That said, Homeworld is more focused on tactical combat, where the player have to assume complete, direct control (micromanagement) of each and all ships. While sins is more focused on strategic combat, where the focus is more on the process of building an economy, then a fleet and moving it, rather than actually directing each ship during combat.

For me, it is not a question of "who is better?", rather it is simply a question of "are they all fun?"

The answer is YES, they are all awesome. Both Homeworld and Sins have sucked up a huge numbers of hours away from my life.

My only complaint is that there isn't a Homeworld3.   

SWEAW definly has better graphics - I put it on full on my desktop and it is gorgeous. The Moviecam zooms in to lone tie fighters - and they look realistic. not to mention the executor and victories. Also battles are a lot more interesting. The ships actually move around instead of just floating there. but... sins is still the better game

Both are RTS games first, empire building games second.

If you want an RTS that leans more towards being a straight RTS, get EAW with the Forces of Corruption expansion. If you want an RTS that leans more towards being an empire building game, get Sins.

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Sins, hands down.
And I am a Star Wars fan!

Hey don't get me wrong, I'am just comparing several games against Sins, but all told, I really do love playing Sins, I like the way it starts off slow like a game of chest where you feel out your opponents defenses seeing if there is any weaknesses and they doing the same with you, and then sometime during the game, POW! the pace picks up like a game of checkers where you and your enemy are trying to knock out your defenses in order to get to your turf and recieve the crown of victory by taking your worlds one at a time  .

Ugh... Do not trust the EAW has better graphics comments... I was just playing the zerox 3.5 add-on mod for forces of corruption last night. I had a star wars itch, damned inconvenient.

They are vastly inferior, there is zero comparison graphically between the two games. Up against Sins, EAW is severely dated. It's more in line with the first homeworld, and from an efficiency perspectively, vastly inferior to that as well. It's a clunky bastard of an engine unfortunately.

Which you'll like better... Shit does move a wee bit more in EAW, but outside of that I can't really come up with a high point as far as space combat goes. The land combat is a nice addition over sins, but it's not particularly well done. As far as single player goes, you can kill the most heavily fortified base with depressing ease as long as you have a single y-wing in the system. It's very very easy, even in the worst conditions. Multiplayer could be interesting, but my acquisition of it post-dates my move to the boonies. Sins is by far the more strategic game, but neither of them are really in any way a comparison to homeworld. Sins is sorta like the space half of EAW done right.

I play EAW:FOC religously,
I played all the homeworld titles
i play X3...
and now SINS...


Sins by far IMHO has the most depth as an empire building game than any of the other three. The economy in X3 tho outshines SINS by far.