PC Gamer Senior Associate Editor, Dan Stapleton, has given an early thumbs-up for Sins of a Solar Empire!  On the PC Gamer website he writes, "You'll have to wait for our April issue for the review, but I'm just going to go ahead and recommend that if epic-scale real-time space combat between huge empires looks like something you might enjoy, you should jump the gun and get it now - you won't be disappointed."

Check out the short blurb here:

http://pcgamer.com/archives/2008/02/20408_-_unrival.html