http://bestof.ign.com/2008/pc/

I like their choice of 2008 game of the year: Sins of the Solar Empire.  I have not gathered the money to buy it, but I think I will have to now.  I'm also pleased that it is Cedega certified

 Sins has a steep laurning curve doesnt it?

Anyways, Im happy Fallout 3 got sum awards and top spots. Sadly no Mount & Blade on those lists.

It seems to be sweeping the "PC game of the year" on a lot of sites. Might have to check it out...

Sin isn't bad but the lack of campaign kinda reduces the replayability of the game.

Once you have played 3-4 maps the game is pretty much always the same....

What?!!!! No campaign? It's all skirmish or what?

There's an expansion of Sins' with an entire campaign, plus new technologies, improvements, etc... coming January 01, 2009

You have like 30 or so maps with varying sizes and number of enemies but that's it.

There is no story or campaign....

From what I remember every map you and your enemies start with an initial undeveloped planet too, there aren't any way to attack a preconstructed empire....

So every frigging game is the same where you and your enemies start from zero and slowly develop. 

What changes is the shape of the galaxy, how planets and star systems are connected and how many enemies you are fighting...( and I think you can configure some parameters affecting how the computer AI chooses to develop).

It's funny how people bitched about how Starcraft 2 would only ship with the campaign for one race or so but a game with no campaign gets game of the year by the way :P

I used to play a turn based space colonization game on a BBS back in the day. Cannot remember the name of it for the life of me. Had many different races(most of them Star Trek derived). Anyone got any ideas on what it was?