'Beyond Earth' takes 'Sid Meier's Civilization' off-planet and into the final frontier

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Earlier this month, when Firaxis Games teased that it would be revealing a new game at PAX East in Boston, most assumed the obvious: Civilization VI, the next installment in the illustrious series of historical empire management games. What got announced that weekend though, was far from expected. Sure enough, it is another entry in the Civilization series, but set on another planet across the stars.

'Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth' will be released later this year on Mac, Windows and Linux PCs. Long-time followers of Firaxis Games, the award-winning studio whose most recent releases include Sid Meier's Ace Patrol and XCOM: Enemy Unknown, will be psyched to know that press outlets like Eurogamer and Forbes have dubbed Beyond Earth the spiritual successor to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.

Released in 1999, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri was a spin-off from the Civilization franchise, following on from the well known space victory that sees players send their civilization into the stars. Tasked with colonizing an alien planet, players of 'SMAC' developed transhuman technologies, set customized ideologies and interacted with an extraterrestrial sentience. Its rich texture and compelling in-game characters and fiction and have drawn a devoted cult following.

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