This is still fundamentally a game about the development and progression of humanity. And the addition of multistage quests that have specific goals and force players to make hard decisions helps create the narrative and can alter the trajectory of some civilizations.Īlthough the historical detail that many of the franchise's fans have always enjoyed is missing, it's been replaced with interesting speculative concepts and themes, as well as believable future technologies - such as genetics, robotics, and artificial evolution - that will leave players pondering how scientific advances will affect our species in the coming decades and centuries. The orbital layer, for example, lets players launch satellites that confer a variety of useful benefits - before they eventually crash back to the ground, where they become possible treasure troves for rival nations. Some parts feel like the Civilization games players know and love simply done up in sci-fi clothing, but there also are entirely new systems at play that meaningfully change the experience. Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth succeeds in standing apart from the series' Earth-based entries. It's the player's job to deploy these nation-building elements to establish the dominant civilization on the new world, striving to achieve supremacy (and victory) in a variety of ways, ranging from military conquest to making contact with a sentient alien race. Luckily, the colonists are armed with futuristic technologies and a broad range of progressive cultural, sociological, and diplomatic doctrines and tools. What's more, the planet they try to settle is home to a wide variety of alien life that's all too happy to gobble up hapless explorers. But he or she will face competition from other human colonists who have the same idea. Players assume the role of a fictional leader who's taken a small group of humans to a distant alien world to establish and guide the progression of a human colony. Sid Meier games are renowned for delivering detailed simulations of humanity's gradual growth and development on Earth now SID MEIER'S CIVILIZATION: BEYOND EARTH moves the action off our planet and into the future.
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