The first thing I notice is the technically inferior selection of "sponsors" (factions.) that you have available to you (Compared to the base game of Civilization 5 of 16) - While this may be in more aligned with Alpha Centauri's faction selection and yet further expanded on by minor bonuses you can select upon planetfall, it fails to really touch 1 major problem: The fact is that the factions in Alpha Centauri were massively developed. As the developers noted several times, it was suppose to be a spiritual successor to the game, and repeated the mantra: "We made this for you" (Alpha Centauri fans) Unfortunately, with such a huge monolith in the field the game cannot stand a chance. It however, has the unfortunate pleasure of being compared to Alpha Centauri and it's expansion pack Alien Crossfire. Now, if Civilization Beyond Earth was released without any Hype or expectations I had for it, this game would have been scored higher. First: I won't be repeating a lot of what's being said. I think I have a pretty good background in the field of strategy games. I've been playing Civilization games since the second game came out, and I've played pretty much every strategy game that has been released for English and German. Second: I actually like this Is this game bad? No. I think I have a pretty good background in the field of strategy games.įirst: I won't be repeating a lot of what's being said. If you should divert from caravan management to anything else, like achieving victory conditions, you will be punished! Feel victory turn to ash in your mouth as, after 50+ turns of building wonders to communicate with the ancient alien race you get a popup saying “Congrats! You’ve communicated with the ancient alien race! Game over.” Seriously? … Expand
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Watch real f_AI_l brought out of the AI, which will not attack you once during a full game at the hardest difficulty setting, but which will proceed to launch waves of suicide air strikes against an alien worm sitting in a harmless spot and doing nothing.
Conduct sci-fi trade by caravan! - Which brings us to the best feature: spend 50% (literally: half) of your game time managing space caravans, of which there will be dozens and which have to be manually re-assigned every couple of turns! Yay! 3 caravans per city! EPIC FUN on large maps. Watch in amazement as the borders of your space colony expand due to cultural influence, probably as the hostile insectoid aliens start wearing blue jeans and listening to pop music. It’s all the concepts from 4000 BC you love, taken straight into the 23rd century! - Take your suspension of disbelief to new heights as colonists from earth land on a new planet and have no map of the surface, even after launching satellites. “old earth relic”, and monitor your empire’s happiness… err… “health”. Meet the warrior… in a spacesuit! Start the game by building a “monument”, a.k.a. It features the following astounding features: -Ĝomplete sci-fi reskins for all your favorite civilization units and concepts.
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Meet the warrior… in a spacesuit! Start the game by building a “monument”, This mod for Civilization 5 might have been entitled: Civilization: Space Caravan Management before it was given to a group of energetic marketing people to hype up before release. This mod for Civilization 5 might have been entitled: Civilization: Space Caravan Management before it was given to a group of energetic marketing people to hype up before release.
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