A complex terraforming system allows the player, not just to grow farms and build mines but to rise and lower ground to maximize output. This speculative focus allowed old mechanics to be taken in new directions. Featuring a human-centered narrative, it’s a more philosophical game than we are used to in the genre. Brian Reynolds, the main driving force behind the project, took an unusual hard science approach. Like the original, it’s a turn-based strategy game in which players settle the map, develop cities and research new technology in their attempts to determine the destiny of the human race.īut what will that destiny look like? Since Alpha Centauri covers the future it doesn’t have the historical references of the original game. After a reactor malfunction damages the starship, the crew splits into seven different factions not by nationality, but by ideology.Īlpha Centauri is a Sid Meier’s Civilization spin-off set after humanity begins its conquest of space. A small group of colonists leaves the ravages of Earth for a distant planet orbiting Alpha Centauri’s primary star.
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