Civilization: Beyond Earth to Take Players to Alien Planets

[exfileme]

Civilization is heading to alien planets.

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[JD88]

While not mentioned here, this game will be available across all platforms including Linux. Good to see more AAA games showing up there.

 

[icemunk]

Looks like fun, but if they stick to the 1 unit-per-tile thing from Civ5, I'll pass. I want a real Civ game.

 

[trip1ex]

Alpha centauri

 

[tomfreak]

And take Players beyond DirectX with Mantle support. 🙂

 

[spdragoo]

trip1ex, that was my first reaction as well. Which is fine, since that was a fun game to play.

 

[derekullo]

I so missed the semi-dynamic weather in Alpha Centauri.
Can't think of any 4X games that have done it since.

 

[vir_cotto]

Awesome, hope it's fun!

 

[derekullo]

Please don't go. The drones need you. They look up to you.

 

[Tuishimi]

W00t!1!!

 

[olaf]

Yes , and turns will take 24h again ... against an AI

 

[hannibal]

Interesting to see if this is story driven like Alpha Centauri was, or more like sandbox game ala Civ...
To Icemunk... I always prefer more tactical one unit per hex than old "stack of doom". That was really boring... In civ5 system it requires more thinking and more complex tactical decision, but I can understand that it does not please everyone, but for strategy gamer the change in civ5 was a excellent one!

 

[Alec Mowat]

Yes , and turns will take 24h again ... against an AI

You can actually buy faster CPU's, did you hear?

 

[acadia11]

Sid Maiers Alpha Centauri, is still the best game ever!

 

[RazberyBandit]

It looks like I had the same reaction as others, "I played this game in 1999. It was called Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri."

 

[spdragoo]

Guess video games are following the Hollywood trend, "Hey! Let's just remake the old & pretend that it's new again!"...

Or it's the even older adage, "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"...

Or they thought, "Well, the backstory may be somwhat similar to Alpha Centauri, but then what empire-building turn-based strategy game doesn't resemble its predecessors in some way?"

Either way, should be interesting.

 

[w8gaming]

Can we have a stick figure graphics mode so that this can be run on a cheap 8" Windows tablet without overheating it and cause it to shut down?

 

[agnickolov]

Actually, even before Alpha Centauri they had some Civ 2 extensions that brought the game to another planet. I think it was called Test of Time or something... IIRC the game played normally until you build a spaceship and then you continued after the ship landed.

 

[spookyman]

I still own the original Civ game. works on a 286

 

[ct001]

I wonder if the AI will be as terrible as Civ 5?

 

[Nilo BP]

Well, there goes my life for the next year.

 

[damric]

I look forward to getting this game on discount

 

[g-unit1111]

Oh man as a die hard Civ V fan I can't wait for this!