Sins Of A Solar Empire played with multi touch on a Windows 7 Joojoo Tablet using impulse

RTS was made for the tablet form factor  , handy then that your trusty joojoo tablet once loaded with Windows 7 lets you access all your Impulse driven games ... thegameveda already showed how smoothly Galactic Civilisations 2 runs on the joojoo ,  of course we  could not leave out Sins of A Solar Empire now could we ? 


This video shows the speed of the game and interface when controlled with touch , the moral of the story is if you want to rule the universe and one day retire to a life of philanthropy you need to have Windows 7 running on your tablet .. well that's my excuse ..on with the show ...

You own thousands of dollars worth of games on Steam , Impulse and onlive , not to mention the millions of games out there in the interweb , why leave all that behind when you pick up  your tablet , with a Windows tablet , or Steve if you are listening a Lion tablet we could take all our existing  games with us . If thegameveda can so can you! 


The joojoo running this AAA pc game is powered by a 1.6ghz Atom , with 4gb DDR3 a Runcore 64gb ssd , and the heart of it all the nVidia desktop Ion , more tablet gaming including this running on the Acer Iconia to follow , and on that baby it runs in twin 14 inch screens. Mastering the universe never felt so cool.... by the power  of Graysk...

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Sins of A Solar Empire played on dual touch screens : Acer Iconia test X

The finest space bound RTS of modern times looks amazing on the dual 14 inch touch screens of the Acer Iconia . The game runs at a fair pace  , check out the videos to see how the game is controlled with 2 touch screens ! ( but only one hand as the other is used for filming) 

it is difficult to convey the majesty of this game when you are playing with touch looking down a at a dual screen setup there is a tremendous feeling of depth , not to mention megalomania as your merest touch sends  asteroids , planets 

and suns spinning ... 

Allow me to demonstrate : 

and like so : 

All in all another great gaming test for the Acer Iconia :  remember the GOTY Sins of A Solar Empire is jsut £4.85 at Zavvi , and for those who do not need physical media check out

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Sins of a Solar Empire : Trinity hits Steam and it`s 25% off till November 23rd

Sins of A Solar Empire : Trinity is the finest PC only game series released in the last say 10 to 15 years ,now finally available to download from Steam so pump up your ego and get ready to save or destroy the known universe using your mouse and finely honed XXXX skills .. and  save 25% off till November 23rd. Well if you want to run a Solar Empire you have to start with the economy stupid!

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Pre order Sins of A Solar Empire Rebellion for $29.95 and get Beta Access

Stardock have their upcoming Rebellion , the next chapter in the Sins of A Solar Empire at just $29.95 a limited time pre order offer for those wise enough to already own , Trinity or Diplomacy . Of course the more master of the universe worthy among you may just have X.X.X.X`d you could pick up Trinity really cheap , register it and then get your pre order bonus discount in for what is expected to one of the PC`s finest games . And you get to support a great PC games developer in the process... 


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Sins of A Solar Empire Rebellion play test on Windows 8 single and dual screen tablets

Time to test out some quality PC gaming , this is not a review but the story of my adventures so far In playing Sins of A Solar Empire Rebellion Beta , using Windows 8 Customer Preview and on hardware that includes Atom powered tablets right up to second gen i7 CPUd tablets , via the dual screen Acer Iconia which packs a 1st gen i5 and what you may consider as a humble Intel GMA HD integrated GPU . along with twin 10 point touch screens. We will also play Mass Effect 3 at full spec in screen 1 whilst playing Sins in the second screen ( one handed whilst filming with the new iPad in my other hand) .

Rest assured Ironclad coders , any one who plays or sees anyone playing  the Beta will be buying the game , and with Windows 8 round the corner many will be playing with touch as well as the traditional mouse and keyboard . I hope Ironclad can incorporate more touch friendly controls , for tablet users , this kind of game is going to find a whole new market with upcoming Windows 8 tablets. Microsoft could also get it's act together and include a touch control paradigm in the next Direct X , which  would bring tablet controls universally to PC games without coders needing to fuss. They did it with joysticks and joypads back in the day perhaps it is now time to optimise touch control for pc gaming.



So lets start off with the Intel Atom and NVidia Ion powered Joojoo :

and now let me show you the beauty of  a blue Star on the dual screen Acer Iconia







This is how  we play on Windows 8 with touch and twin screens in portrait mode , the game Window stretched across both touch screens

 

we can also flip the screens round and play in dual screen landscape mode

of course you can mess with Windows 8 Apps whilst you play and also play something completely different in one screen whilst playing Sins in the other : So thanks to the magic of Dave Perry's Gaikai and him being on good terms with Bioware ( MDK ) we can play through the demo of Mass Effect 3 in ultra high detail on an Intel GMA GPU'd tablet whilst playing the Sins of A Solar Empire Beta , without sweating the machine .. I did all of this one handed of course with the new iPad in my other hand filming jerky documentary style ...yes games offer no challenge to me any more ....



more to follow ! My advice get pre ordering Sins of A Solar Empire Rebellion now , and support Iron Clad . My advice to the coders is to look to throw in some tablet and touch optimisations  and take advantage of the coming Windows 8 tablet storm . 

A game as deep and beautiful as Sins floors all those iOS and Android Apps , plus on Steam it has cloud saves so you can continue where you left off on all your favourite devices be they  tablet , laptop and desktop or in thegameveda's case as you can see ..all of the above...

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Playing Hydro Thunder whilst playing Sins of A Solar Empire Rebellion whilst checking the news on a Windows 8 Joojoo

Windows 8 tablets will come in all shapes and sizes , and this means if you are so inclined you can play and work in portrait mode . Many Windows 8 Apps are already ready to rock in portrait mode , reading news feels more natural , and legacy Windows 7 games also shine in portrait mode , Here we stress the Atom powered joojoo , running the Hydro Thunder App , whilst playing Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion Beta ( from Steam ) whilst messing and switching to and from the Metro App reading some news mid lap and universal conquest .... 

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Sins Of A Solar Empire Rebellion played on Dual 14" touch screens of a Windows 8 Acer Iconia 6120

So the 12th of June brought us the final release ( for now ) of Sins of A Solar Empire Rebellion , the game itself has quietly become THE reason to own , upgrade and mess with the format we know and love as the PC .  

I have been filming videos of playing the entire series on Win 7 tablets, and later Windows 8 Tablets for the longest time. So what is there to report ?

The game itself like I said is reason alone to purchase your first PC , and re tech specs , I first played on the Atom powered joojoo and it runs fine , on the i7 Intel HD 3000 powered X220T you can easily run it at 1920 by 1080 on your 30incher , or the tablet screen itself at 1366 by 768 , but the coolest option of all is when you run and play on the dual 14" touch screens of the Acer Iconia which is 1st gen i5 Intel GMA powered , and it flies as you will see using Windows 8 Release Preview ,   which also means it will fly veritably on upcoming Windows 8 tablets ... or the ones I build anyway....!

Frankly I would use it to launch Windows 8.... frankly they won't need to  , because you are going to own it way before the official launch of Windows 8 ... 

What has changed since the Beta is that 10 point touch works across both screens , or for those still using mice you mouse will work across multiple monitors ... if you check some of my earlier videos you will see pinch zooming working only on the lower screen, now it works across both. Problems include some flickering of the menu and icons .. but PC fans are well used to initial launch problems like these .All the screens you see here are captures from dual screen landscape orientation, of course a static representation can not hope to show you the beauty of this game ... 

As for playing the game , I love the sandbox nature of it all , if there is a story I have no idea about you see I am too busy getting lost in the game mechanic , the thing that makes the greatest RTS games , which is ebb and flow , take for instance the brief time I was filming the game for this article now , playing through the new iPad screen one handed on dual touch screens  I was not going to get any where fast . But I managed to set up a defensive grid that happens to hold back pirate raids rather nicely as you can see . This after my great battle cruisers had all been wiped out ... take a look a my errh vengeance against one such pirate rade below : 

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More to Sins of A Solar Empire Rebellion gameplay to follow on the Lenovo X220T , Toshiba Libretto and joojoo .. desktops ... who needs desktops mine is rusting as I type ...

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Sins of A Solar Empire Rebellion on the dual screen Windows 8 RP Toshiba Libretto

This is my first unoptimised test of playing Sins of A Solar Empire Rebellion on the Toshiba Libretto , the game itself will run faster after messing with settings , but here it is with everything maxed out on the tiny palm sized dual screen Libretto. 

Sins is also the first game I have tested on Windows 8 RP on the Libretto ,  you can stretch the game to dual screens , play it as above or just play on one cute little 7" touch screen whilst doing other things on the second display .. and all from the palm of your hand ( which can get very hot if you hold the right screen that houses the cpu !: 

As far as Windows 8 RP is concerned , apps will not run on the 1024 600 screens , not until someone figures a work around there is a reg hack that works for netbooks that lets you scale the screen to a 1024 768 res  but I have not gotten it to work on the Libretto. 


However you can still run ALL desktop applications , and that includes your favourite game of Sins of A Solar Empire Rebellion , whilst you browse or do other stuff.  Sins is definitely in need of a patch , the interface flickers on all 3 devices I have tested it on , this flickering was not present on the Beta or Alpha . 


check out some game play:

More to follow 

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