![]() ![]() One of the big change from the base game is a diplomacy overhaul and it is long overdue. But through the artefacts and other little small things and the diplomacy all of a sudden this world feels more real and brings a little more of that ‘one more turn’ feel to the game. There was a lot of cool writing in the base game but most of it was hidden away in the Civilopedia, and while this is fine for Civ, I know what the Pyramids are, it really impacted my engagement with the base game. Also, it is good to see an attempt to fix one of the big problems I had with the first game the lack of lore/personality. The new hybrid affinities is an interesting idea. The music for this game is amazing, it truly is, and most of the art really good and that helps with the immersion. ![]() ![]() The new sponsors are interesting and have a bit more personality to them. So after a long ride in cryo-sleep, the colonists prepare to shape their new planet into a new home or have their new planet shape them.įirstly the good, because there is a lot of good things with this expansion. So many of the world’s leading States and Corporations worked to create ‘The Seeding Project’, a chance for some to escape Earth and maybe a chance for the Human Race to survive. Six hundred years from now the world is finally getting back on its feet when scientist discover ‘The Inflection Point’, that in the very near future the Earth would only not be able to sustain reasonable standards of living, but soon any chance of exo-planet colonisation would be lost. The basic premise of the game is in the not too distant future a series of natural and manmade events cause ‘The Great Mistake’ fracturing the world and remaking it both physically and politically. I want to love this games I really do, it is a turn based 4x game (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate) set in space with all those Sci-fi trappings produced by Firaxis Games one of my favorite game developers, this should be my jams but I don’t know, the love is not there. Rising Tide is the first expansion to Beyond Earth that includes 4 new sponsors, aquatic cities, new artefacts, a redesigned diplomacy system and a bunch of other content. ![]()
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