Civilization: Beyond Earth announced. Civ is going to space

[Ohio Joe]

Firaxis announced the next stage of Civilization's evolution at PAX today. Civilization: Beyond Earth will take Sid Meier's classic turn-based strategy formula to an alien world for the first time since Alpha Centauri.

Your human colony makes landfall on a planet swarming with alien creatures, your relationship with the monsters, and your technology choices will have a profound affect on the evolution of your faction. You can embrace technology, build bionic commandos and follow the path of Supremacy, attempt to preserve humanity in its current form as a Purity player, or study the alien geneseed, and genetically modify your way to victory as a Harmony player. Each one of these "affinities" will change the way your faction looks, the structures and planetary wonders they can build, and the units they can create. Purity players can hold back alien influences with huge floating gun platforms. Harmony players can use local creatures as mounts, or grow huge monsters using the alien genome.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/04/12/civilization-beyond-earth-announced-civ-is-going-to-space/

Yeah... I'll get it but... I'm pretty disappointed they are not officially making it Alpha Centauri II and even more so that they did not get Brian Reynolds back to do it.

[Stryst]

1. If you have

access to civ 4 there's an awesome full conversion mod to basically recreate Alpha Centauri on the civ 4 engine. It's called "Planetfall", and it does require Beyond the Sword.