Is this a Remake of Sid Meier's Alpha Centari?

[DreadPirate]

So far the game reminds me of Alpha Centari... due to that, Beyond Earth seems like a rather uninspired recycling job.

Are there any Alpha Centari players looking at this game? What are your thoughts? Am I missing something that makes this different other than the launch date?

[SarahWills38]

yes, looks like a massive upgrade on my old favourite game, hope it is as goood as Alpha Centauri and if it is, it will be an amazing game.

[donald23]

It's not a AC2, it's inspired by (among others) Alpha Centauri.

[DreadPirate]

I'll have to keep an eye on it... I loved AC, but lately I've been rather disappointed with recent Sid Meier's games. Hopefully this one will be different for me.

[Charles Martel]

Gaaaah! It's Centauri! Not Centari! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! :)

[rufusjonz]

exactly -- a modern upgrade of Alpha Centauri would still be an awesome game
or an outerspace version of Civ 5

Originally posted by SarahWills38:

yes, looks like a massive upgrade on my old favourite game, hope it is as goood as Alpha Centauri and if it is, it will be an amazing game.

[Exile]

Yes, I played AC back in the day, and I wouldn't call this a "recycling job" in any capacity.

It doesn't stray from the basic concept of multiple human factions attempting to colonize an alien world, but it does expand on it quite a bit in just about every other possible area to the tune of a decade's worth of gameplay development and evolution in the Civ franchise. The one thing missing that I've seen people griping about is unit customization which I never found added much to AC's gameplay. Tech progression was so linear that the ability to customize really didn't add very much. I kind of do wish there weren't such hard divides between the different affinities, which would allow for a higher degree of customization in BE, but oh well.

If you're really curious about AC you can just buy it on GoG for $5 and see for yourself.

[Dark Bunny]

I thought Alpha Centauri was an epic game, and still play it with friends. I for one, am really looking forward to this release...

Even if it just a graphics and gameplay update to Centauri - it'll be a cracker!

[Fungeziefer]

Considering this game doesn't seem to have an elevation model, which was one of the defining features of AC, i am pretty sure this game is totally not like it. Unfortunatly.

[luckz]

AC is by far the best game in the Civ series, while this looks really meh.

[Morgc]

Originally posted by donald23:

It's not a AC2, it's inspired by (among others) Alpha Centauri.

It (essentially) really is. They can't make a new AC as the IP is owned by EA.

[SamBC]

Originally posted by Morgc:

Originally posted by donald23:

It's not a AC2, it's inspired by (among others) Alpha Centauri.

It (essentially) really is. They can't make a new AC as the IP is owned by EA.

There's a lot more different from SMAC, really, than just the minimum to be able to say it's a different game. Pandora is much closer to SMAC than BE is, AFAICT.

[Ghrim]

Originally posted by luckz:

AC is by far the best game in the Civ series, while this looks really meh.

I agree, though i never played Civ 5. I wish they would make a game like AC2, and i cant see why that hasnt happened. Too bad i cant play this one on my crappy XP (no DX11). So i feel like this is another Civ game, probably still wont be as good as AC, and they shut out a lot of people like me from even playing. no ♥♥♥♥♥ given about this game anymore

Edit: "they" should open up AC to player mods and workshop stuff. The game would explode again and be amazing with some new skins and player tweaks

[kyr]

Originally posted by Ghrim:

Originally posted by luckz:

AC is by far the best game in the Civ series, while this looks really meh.

I agree, though i never played Civ 5. I wish they would make a game like AC2, and i cant see why that hasnt happened. Too bad i cant play this one on my crappy XP (no DX11). So i feel like this is another Civ game, probably still wont be as good as AC, and they shut out a lot of people like me from even playing. no f***s given about this game anymore

Considering XP is not even in long term support anymore, I'm not really sure you can hold that against anyone. Supporting XP now would be like supporting 3.1 when XP was around.

[Fallensoul]

Well there is no AC2 since EA has the rights to AC as sad as it is. So i am glad that we haven't seen a AC2 so far since i am pretty sure you and me can agree on that EA handling the successor to AC is a recipe for destruction and disappointment for everyone out there.

[Ghrim]

i can play space engineers on XP, but not a top down stratagy game. i really feel its just cheaper for them, and easier. often many games that dont support XP will play on XP machines with a few file tweaks or workarounds.