Civilization: Beyond Earth gameplay is a departure from the series
Firaxis have released a brand new trailer for Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth that focuses on the gameplay changes they have made to the turn-based strategy game. While Beyond Earth is still part of the Civilization series, it is also a spiritual successor to an earlier Sid Meier game, Alpha Centauri, which originally launched in 1999. It’s not a surprise then that the latest entry does not have as much in common with its Civilization predecessors as players might have initially expected. Apart from the obvious change in that Beyond Earth takes place in a radically different environment compared to previous instalments, there are a number of important modifications to mechanics and features. Key among them is the new ‘affinities’ system that gives unique victory condition depending on the affinity chosen as well as altering the way that your cities look and react to in-game events. The technology tree has also been overhauled. Rather than a single top-down linear tree, research will be focused on a complex technology web that