Best of 2008: Top 5 PC Games
SoaSE is #3
3. Best Incredibly Complicated Simulation: Sins of a Solar Empire
Expand, explore, exploit, exterminate. Become the master of the universe in this elaborate interstellar strategy game. "Epic" doesn't even fully encapsulate the scope of Sins of a Solar Empire. The depth of the gameplay and the customization options are amazing enough. But when you extrapolate them out over the game's nearly-endless virtual spacescape, you see why Sins fans regularly claim to have spent thousands of hours immersed in it. -- Earnest Cavalli
http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/12/best-of-2008--3.html