RE: Sid Meir's Civilization: Beyond Earth
May 28, 2015 at 3:41 am
(This post was last modified: May 28, 2015 at 3:44 am by Red Economist.)
I bought Civilisation Beyond Earth about a week ago, and I probably should have listened to the mixed reviews. I took a risk and enjoyed it for a few days but nothing more than that. Without a doubt it has good graphics, music and some good ideas (when you look at the manual) and you can see alot of work went into it, but somehow this doesn't translate into gameplay. it is pretty souless and it was an effort to actually bring myself to complete a Promised Land victory. I did it on easy to get the hang of it, but I am left without much reason to want to play it at a higher level. I downloaded the full Soundtrack from youtube and listen to it fairly often. I heard it on the radio and this got me into listening to game music.
I haven't played turn-based stratedgy before (or Civilisation 5 which has alot better reviews) but I found moving all those units to wage war one at a time deeply frustrating even though it was on easy and it wasn't much effort for me to win. I'm a fan of Rise of Nations, I played Age of Empires III for a bit, but I also like games like Democracy 3, Simcity 4 and Capitalism II. Industry Giant was fun even though it was quite pointless. I bought Beyond Earth thinking about the experience of playing Simcity Societies which pretty much everyone said was a bad game but I liked it and spend waaaaay too many hours on and wondered if I just had excentric taste. But this is the first game I've ever had to decide to ignore it's flaws to actually play it. I did play Republic:The Revolution but that was unplayable beyond a certain point; Beyond Earth is nowhere near as frustrating or excruiating so it would not be fair to compare the two. I just don't "connect" with it which is a really weird experience honestly. I'm used to either loving the games or hating them- where as this one doesn't seem to have a pulse. So don't buy this at full price if you want to buy it. it won't live up to the expectations but is a bit of fun for a few days.
I haven't played turn-based stratedgy before (or Civilisation 5 which has alot better reviews) but I found moving all those units to wage war one at a time deeply frustrating even though it was on easy and it wasn't much effort for me to win. I'm a fan of Rise of Nations, I played Age of Empires III for a bit, but I also like games like Democracy 3, Simcity 4 and Capitalism II. Industry Giant was fun even though it was quite pointless. I bought Beyond Earth thinking about the experience of playing Simcity Societies which pretty much everyone said was a bad game but I liked it and spend waaaaay too many hours on and wondered if I just had excentric taste. But this is the first game I've ever had to decide to ignore it's flaws to actually play it. I did play Republic:The Revolution but that was unplayable beyond a certain point; Beyond Earth is nowhere near as frustrating or excruiating so it would not be fair to compare the two. I just don't "connect" with it which is a really weird experience honestly. I'm used to either loving the games or hating them- where as this one doesn't seem to have a pulse. So don't buy this at full price if you want to buy it. it won't live up to the expectations but is a bit of fun for a few days.
