I bow my hat to Firaxis for this system, as it brings a whole new level of replayability, which I surely enjoyed while trying out over 6-7 different game scenarios. The possibilities go as far as exploiting the planet’s ecosystem and use it as a weapon, create even a new race of human mixed with alien genes. Thus with this flexibility of choice, comes a sort of calculation on your civilization’s priority: Do you want to clone organs to boost your population’s health and longevity? You’ll have to skip studying Biology and focus on Genetics. Because the game is set in the future, the technological limitations due to historical contexts of the old episodes are gone, and we can begin to develop any technology early in the game, but some will still take more steps to research. Ultimately, your goal is to maintain a synergy between your needs and productions, while not forgetting to provide a decent quality of life for your people, paying close attention to their level of health, without forgetting of course to protect against external aggression, whether it is alien or other human colonies.Īnother big novelty with Beyond Earth is the Technology Web. and bring culture) and maintain a steady flow of producing soldiers, tanks, ships and so on to protect your land. Because of course, your goal will be to produce, evolve but also maintain the standard of living for your population, so that it continues to work.Īnd for that, you’ll need to generate enough energy to produce workers (for building key enhancement buildings such as mines), explorers (to scavenge artifacts, ruins, etc. To that combines the values (power, prosperity, industry and knowledge), and bonuses generated by the culture that you accumulate to meet the needs of your empire. Knowing that these orientation will affect your quests and different variables in the game, affinities also transform your civilization, whether in the form or exclusive military and civilian units, but also in the aesthetic and architecture of your cities and buildings. And for this, you must make major choices which are split into affinities: Are you more a follower of the “Supremacy”, exploiting technology and dictating your vision to nature and your opponents? Or would you prefer to live in “Harmony” with your new planet, adapting to the alien biology as one? Unless you choose neither of these affinities then your mindset is simply “Purity”, transforming this new home into a copy of the old Earth. Nevertheless the true principle of Civilization hasn’t changed: You start with a city and a worker to build and expand your civilization throughout the centuries. Gone are the lands filled with barbarians and coal to be mined, but hello to Alien nests and Firaxite minerals to exploit. The interface might have not changed much from Civilization V, but it’s the heavy change of scenery that becomes quite overwhelming. What will our future hold to us and what will we accomplish as a specie?īeyond Earth at first seems chaotic, especially for those used to the Sid Meier’s franchise, with its immensely color scheme and details of the alien planets we are about to settle our first colony on. Moreover, depending on your style of play, you’ll tend to pledge allegiance to one of three affinities, which will affect the quests, and influence its different bonuses throughout the game. These help as both a tutorial for new players to guide them in their choices, but are also a way to tell the story of your civilization. A perfect time for this game, after the release of Nolan North’s Interstellar, don’t you think?Ĭivilization V already became the title to be deemed more accessible than the previous ones, and Beyond Earth continues to improve things with the help of quests. Humans were picked by their skills and luck to fly across space into unknown planets, building new colonies, making hard choices to survive but also forge their history. Let’s move quickly on to the context and history of the game: humanity has become too big for our little blue planet and it’s time to conquer a new world. Besides, it’s a bit like the original game concept: what will our future hold to us and what will we accomplish as a specie? With Beyond Earth, Firaxis wanted to break new ground by offering their vision of the humanity close future. Whenever a new Civilization game comes out, there’s always the anticipation of a small revolution for all lovers of this micro and macro management turn based strategy title (that sounds more complicated than it is, right?).
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