“We’re really trying to redefine what Beyond Earth is and ground it in what it ought to be, which isn’t just ‘ Civ in space’ but ‘ Civilization of the future.'”Ĭentral to that is naval gameplay. “Sort of across the board with the expansion we’re specifically making plays from the position ‘Never been done in Civ before,'” said McDonough when I spoke to him last week. With Rising Tide, McDonough thinks they’re rectifying some of those issues.
It wasn’t quite the bold Alpha Centauri successor everyone expected. Discussing the game in March, Beyond Earth‘s co-lead designer David McDonough admitted “a little bit of lack of ambition” with Beyond Earth‘s base game. The complaint was so pervasive, it even came up during a GDC postmortem on the game. But one of the first things I asked was “What makes Rising Tide different from ‘More Civilization‘?” It was one of the most pervasive complaints about Beyond Earth, and rightfully so-in many ways, it felt like a reskinned version of Civilization V. Will you be able to develop your settlements so that the human population can thrive or will the resident aliens leave your people scattered and defeated waiting to be wiped off the planet for good.To be clear, I haven’t seen Rising Tide in action yet. The imagination and development of a game considering different aspects of settling humans on alien planets is an intriguing one and this game has offered up a exciting chance to explore how you may be forced to survive. The ability to colonize the ocean has been added as well as natural resources within the seas. The aliens in habiting this land are better suited for the different environment this needs to be taken into account when confronted with resistance. 2 new biomes have been introduced that will dramatically change how you will approach the gameplay. In this first expansion of Civilization Beyond Earth you will be able to explore more of the planet and settle and develop land. Civilization Beyond Earth: Rising Tide is a strategy game developed by Firaxis Games, Aspyr and published by 2K.
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