Spaceman
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I'm looking forward to this. Loved Civ4 (especially the Fall From Heaven mod), hated Civ5, and now here I am having fairly high (and possibly soon-to-be-crushed) hopes about Beyond Earth being more like the former than the latter.
To add to the discussion about Alpha Centauri and Beyond Earth... I don't think the developers aimed to make their recent project a direct successor to AC. So far they seem to have similar ideas, but a very different aesthetic feeling and gameplay approach. Which is not that bad IMO. (Reiterating the movie parallels - look at Synecdoche, New York and 8 1/2... they obviously have a lot of similarities, but they also feel very idiosyncratic. I loved them both. And so did the late Ebert, who is a respectful critic if I knew one)
To add to the discussion about Alpha Centauri and Beyond Earth... I don't think the developers aimed to make their recent project a direct successor to AC. So far they seem to have similar ideas, but a very different aesthetic feeling and gameplay approach. Which is not that bad IMO. (Reiterating the movie parallels - look at Synecdoche, New York and 8 1/2... they obviously have a lot of similarities, but they also feel very idiosyncratic. I loved them both. And so did the late Ebert, who is a respectful critic if I knew one)