Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth - GR Review

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Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth - GR Review

Added: 23.10.2014 23:00 | 33 views | 0 comments

Turn of the century.

Humanity hangs on a thread. After the calamity vaguely known as "The Great Mistake" forces us to recognize that our society on Earth is unsustainable, we realize that one of our last chances of survival is to search the stars for another habitable planet on which, we hope, our mistakes are not repeated. This rebirth of the human race by way of necessity forms the context of Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth, a standalone reconstruction of Civilization V and a vision of the future which brings into focus the possibility of extraterrestrial repopulation.

For better or worse, Beyond Earth rises and falls in comparison to Civilization V, improving upon several aspects of the base game but also retaining a few regrettable mechanics as well. On the outset, religion has been removed from the equation, despite the priest in the gorgeous opening cinematic (posted below), and the world council from Brave New World has been nixed as well. The historic world leaders like Napoleon and Gandhi have been replaced by CEOs of multinational corporations and generals of international alliances. Most of the elements in Beyond Earth will be familiar to Civilization fans, but at least half of them have been tweaked and redesigned to the point that Beyond Earth can only be acknowledged as an evolved beast.