Halo Wars vs Sins of a Solar Empire
Halo Wars
Halo Wars is the MMORTS spin-off that was inspired by the popular sci0fi shooter franchise, Halo. However, unlike a shooter, this time around you can choose to side with either the Covenant or the UNSC as they raise armies and battle each other on the battlefield. The game feels a lot like any other great MMORTS games, like Starcraft, but although the game supports keyboard controls, you might still want to plug in a controller because... well Halo is an XBox-exclusive series and as you might expect, its spin-offs are pretty much the same thing.The best part though is its multiplayer aspect. You can choose to play cooperatively with friends against a super strong AI in the campaign or you can go online and engage in intense, action-packed warfare with other players from all over the world through the versus game mode. However, a quick note though, waiting for its random matchmaking to find an opponent will take quite some time. So, if possible, go and meet your fellow players and add a couple of them as friends. At least when you want to play a game, you won't have to wait too long for one.
Sins of a Solar Empire
Sins of a Solar Empire is a massive real-time strategy game with an impressively in-depth background story filled with political intrigue, faction conflicts and a mysterious divisive influence that threatens to tear the Advent Unity apart from within. Play as a loyalist ot a rebel and amass a space fleet consisting of a wide variety of ships including Capital ships, Corvettes and the scales-tipping Titan class warships. Sins of a Solar Empire is also a uniquely non-linear game where there are multiple paths, be it military action or diplomacy, that you can take to obtain victory.The game even attempted to coin a new genre called "4X" that stands for eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate which is basically what the game is all about. You'll be exploring the solar system, expanding your fleet, exploiting allies and exterminating your enemies. After all, the survival of your faction should be your sole concern.
So, if building massive empires in space is your thing, Sins of a Solar Empire is exactly the game you need to play.