Best Strategy Game

Few genres in gaming have expanded as has strategy in recent years. Strategy was once synonymous with PC gaming, with classics such as Command and Conquer, The Sims, and Sid Meier's Civilization leading the charge. Due to new innovations in control, such as the voice command in Tom Clancy's EndWar, strategy has since spread its wings to consoles and handhelds. From the living room or on an airplane, now any aspiring commander can lead a fledgling American colony, a World War II task force, a futuristic army of ground troops, and an entire galactic civilization into war--or peace, should you savor the art of diplomacy. 2008 best represents the growth of the genre, given that our finalists for strategy game of the year come from the PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Nintendo DS. In the end, there could be only one winner. Fittingly, it was the grandest of them all.

Voting Results:

Best Strategy Game
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization
8%
 
1,136
Culdcept SAGA
5%
 
651
Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution
33%
 
4,683
Sins of a Solar Empire
39%
 
5,596
Advance Wars: Days of Ruin
16%
 
2,221

Readers' Choice Winner

Sins of a Solar Empire

Sins of a Solar Empire GameSpot's Best Games of 2008 Readers' Choice Winner

In the future, the survival of humanity stands on the edge of utter ruin as three powerful factions vie for control of the galaxy. Take command of one of three space-faring races as you work to establish your domination of the galaxy in Sins of a Solar Empire. Through a combination of diplomacy, economic skill, cultural influence, and sheer military might you will establish order over your corner of the galaxy!

Best Strategy Game

300 Comments

  • alto123

    Posted Jul 24, 2009 2:57 pm PT

    ok.... wtf everyone?! sry C&C and Valkerie Cronicles wherent on there.... but who cares?! i dont! can you win in all those other games OTHER than killing your enemy down to the last basic unit who's in the deepest darkest corner of the map? no?! in SINS you can win through millitary (prefered), influence, and deplomacy. the AI is amazingly smart and has been updated. plus can you not just conquer regions or planets but star systems? up till 9 of them?! no. didnt think so and as one last thought i just read through like 4 pages of the posts and everyones like "SINS sucks, o! btw i havent played it...." play the game, fall in love and get the expantion. it IS game of the year. if you dont like it than you should have voted. sucks for you. SINS OF A SOLAR EMPIRE IS A GREAT GAME

  • Wolf-5

    Posted Jun 5, 2009 8:22 am PT

    Not too sure here. Haven't played any of these yet.

  • Rizer

    Posted May 17, 2009 4:35 pm PT

    Wow. If this is all we get to pick from...somebody better up the antie next year.

  • Redhairboy491

    Posted Mar 3, 2009 3:23 pm PT

    I always thought sins was just decent, guess i never really got into it enough.

  • renato1988

    Posted Feb 13, 2009 2:12 pm PT

    Well 2009 best strategy game : Starcraft 2 90% rofl but Sins of Solar Empire looks good even tough i didnt play it

  • liamoliver2

    Posted Feb 12, 2009 8:16 am PT

    YOU BET YOUR @!* SOTSE IS GOOD

  • tonyhawksP8

    Posted Feb 12, 2009 1:34 am PT

    Go back to Red Alert on the PS that was a good console rts.

  • tonyhawksP8

    Posted Feb 12, 2009 1:33 am PT

    Yeah!

  • parrot_of_adun

    Posted Feb 11, 2009 11:26 pm PT

    Really a sight for sore eyes.

    I think Halo Wars has opened the floodgates for crap console RTSs though.

  • Gelugon_baat

    Posted Feb 11, 2009 7:20 pm PT

    As expected, the only real-time strategy game nominee is a PC game. It's going to be another millennium before you can properly play a real-time one with a gamepad.

    (Halo zealots, you know you are rabid if you even THINK of giving me a demerit. Halo Wars isn't even out yet, you haven't even touched the beta and all you have tasted of Halo Wars are a bunch of carefully orchestrated videos by the developers. How many of you recall playing Dune 2000 on the PS2? It was horrible! Now imagine you get a bunch of Spartans killed because you can't coordinate them with other troops properly enough with the directional pad.)

    (And EndWar fans, you have the Voice Command feature to help you. If you have only the gamepad, your territory would be a bunch of smoking empty craters.)

  • SoulPsychadelic

    Posted Feb 11, 2009 6:30 pm PT

    Sins is brilliant!

  • sigma8

    Posted Feb 11, 2009 5:20 pm PT

    I didn't even realize Valkyria Chronicles wasn't here until I read some of the comments. It totally should be here. Well...or under RPG's. It was a strategy-RPG, right? Even though VC might be my favorite game of the year, Sins beats it for pure strategy, hands down.

  • noclue_27

    Posted Feb 11, 2009 5:03 pm PT

    Wow, Advance Wars: DoR got a crap load of votes for a DS game... Awesome! ^^

  • FalconDice

    Posted Feb 11, 2009 10:45 am PT

    Where is VC?

  • rennik_l

    Posted Feb 10, 2009 10:46 pm PT

    I'm still waiting with a very very slim thread of hope that soon we'll see HomeWorld 3 up on this nominees list.

  • ttam01

    Posted Feb 10, 2009 6:56 pm PT

    sins is sweet but i hated civrev

  • xrh

    Posted Feb 10, 2009 5:57 pm PT

    ill bet many of you have never seen sins and voted for advanced wars. thats just wrong...advanced wars comes no where close to sins.

  • SSBFan12

    Posted Feb 10, 2009 5:21 pm PT

    I personally think it should of been Advance Wars

  • borgmaster

    Posted Feb 10, 2009 4:12 pm PT

    sins was the best one, but civrev will always have a place in my heart.

  • drsleo

    Posted Jan 24, 2009 8:31 pm PT

    auhauh, relly, what is this... i no vote in any one

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