Each choice will greatly impact the start of your game.īefore you land on a new planet and start shaping humanity’s destiny, you must first equip your expedition. In Beyond Earth, not only do you choose your faction, but also which spacecraft to take, what cargo to carry, who to bring, and the type of planet you want to inhabit. With each new game of Beyond Earth, you play the role of one of these desperate expeditions. The various factions of humanity are piling aboard starships and setting forth in search of a new home for their species. Due to some sort of global catastrophe, which the developers only referred to as "The Great Mistake," Earth is experiencing a mass exodus. Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth begins at the end. Humanity must now find a new future for itself among the stars. Now Playing: Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth - Announcement Trailer Earth is dying. "It is a very liberating thing, as all the gameplay systems we designed for Civilization are done so with an eye towards, 'Does it fit with the history of humanity?' has been a huge opportunity to go ahead and do things that would not be possible in a historic setting." I recently spoke to Brenk, along with other members of the development team, about the many changes this game brings to the Civilization formula, and how a game of Beyond Earth compares to a game of Sid Meier's Civilization V.īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's
"You could see the enthusiasm in the team when they heard about this project," said Lena Brenk, one of Beyond Earth’s lead producers.
Cast upon some unknown world, you will encounter alien life, push the limits of humanity, and inevitably come to blows with your fellow man over whose vision of the future is "correct." For fans of the 1999 classic Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri, this game has been a long time coming, and for the Civilization development team, it’s a liberating experience to finally be free from the constraints of history.
As its name suggests, Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth leaves behind our collective past-which this long-running strategy series has so thoroughly documented-and turns its gaze skyward towards our future. Humanity’s childhood has ended, the cradle of Earth abandoned so that we can find ourselves among the stars.