Civilization Series goes Beyond Earth

I had to post about this. Sid Meier's Civilization, award-winning strategy game series is going across the stars to colonize new worlds. Last Monday, Firaxis announced the new upcoming strategy game called Civilization: Beyond Earth. This was around the PAX East 2014. Not sure what it was about. This is going to be awesome, they haven't made a game like this since Alpha Centauri. They release a video and it looks epic.

To the new kids out there, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri was strategy game release in 1999 that was similar Civilization except for it sci-fi background. Set in an alien world, players will explore a new world, develop their settlements, research new technology and field futuristic units. Instead of historical leaders like Napoleon or Genghis Khan, your leaders will be a diverse race of aliens. The concept is just like Civilization, to win the game you have to either conquer or reach the highest level of the science research tree. The game was success and it got an expansion introducing two new races.

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

So far they announcement trailer and a couple of screenshots. If you want a more in-depth story on Beyond Earth, PC gamer got the interview. Click here to read it.

Screenshot of Beyond Earth

Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth is set to be released this fall, which is sooner than I expected. I hope more from this game. How far will mankind go? The choice is yours.