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I enjoy the satellites, I enjoy the covert op (which is currently broken for it's ability to capture 6 cities at once, every 30~ odd turns if you focus it, and the AI functions like the lemming it seems to wish to represent.) I enjoy the purity/harmony/supremacy hooks. Now, there is a lot of things I do enjoy with this game. Multiplayer that worked - At the time of writing this my friends and I have experienced 18 disconnects, over 8 crashes (seemingly at random.) and ungodly amounts of out of sync issues when doing things like launching a satellite. Your 1UP Tile system might actually work then. That may seem like a lot, and if you go by the tedious ****ing micromanagement of continually selecting the same traderoutes again and re-agreeing to deals that should just auto-continue indefinitely unless interrupted (or give me a prompt: "Do you wish to continue doing the same thing?") A hint to the developers - Shrink the cities, make them a bit more dynamic and interesting, increase the map size by about half again. Massive map and strategy - I hate the fact that if I spend 18 hours on a game, and finally take the entire continent, my continent has about 30 cities. Effective strategy elements - 1UP Tile thing, Okay I get it, but Alpha Centauri solved the massive wave of death via Collateral damage. Aliens are about as much of a threat on frenzied aliens as the faction AI. Just a few things that this game is lacking from it's precursor: Weather effects Alterable terrain (raising and lowering it.) Water Cities Customizable units (and selecting units in a tier does not count as customization any more than selecting two different pieces of bread counts as making a new sandwich.) Interesting story elements (while I admit the quest system has a lot going for it, its exactly the same copy/paste material for each faction sprinkled oh-so-lightly with flavour.) Mindworms, Oh god the mindworms. Which leads me to this point: I created an account here on metacritic, because I am fed up with this simplification mantra and the dumbing down of strategy games.

They were the same exercises in the limitations of terrain and the reduction of strategy. At the moment of writing this I have 30 hours into this game and have played four games (all massive, all standard) which I purposely chose a new path each time. They feel exactly the same, look exactly the same, and do everything exactly the same. The ruler themselves and the faction they represent aren't unique in the slightest.

The figurehead in Civilization Beyond Earth have snippets of information included in the loading screen showing the leaders outlook of the pre-planetfall situation which can be summed to the same 2 sentences about how all hope was lost, or that they are more ambitious than the rest and going to claim the galaxy for themselves. They had unique story elements, unique faction dialogue and communications and a plot. The first thing I notice is the technically inferior selection of "sponsors" (factions.) that you have available to you (Compared to the base game of Civilization 5 of 16) - While this may be in more aligned with Alpha Centauri's faction selection and yet further expanded on by minor bonuses you can select upon planetfall, it fails to really touch 1 major problem: The fact is that the factions in Alpha Centauri were massively developed. As the developers noted several times, it was suppose to be a spiritual successor to the game, and repeated the mantra: "We made this for you" (Alpha Centauri fans) Unfortunately, with such a huge monolith in the field the game cannot stand a chance. It however, has the unfortunate pleasure of being compared to Alpha Centauri and it's expansion pack Alien Crossfire. Now, if Civilization Beyond Earth was released without any Hype or expectations I had for it, this game would have been scored higher. First: I won't be repeating a lot of what's being said.

I think I have a pretty good background in the field of strategy games. I've been playing Civilization games since the second game came out, and I've played pretty much every strategy game that has been released for English and German.

I've been playing Civilization games since the second game came out, and Is this game bad? No.