Without Leash, it's a long wait for the game to give you anything that isn't Some Blokes, but with it you can have a more characterful army from the off. Realistically, most aliens are pretty lousy fighters once the human civs have progressed past basic technology, but it's both useful and fun to have free insta-reinforcements if you need them. The best addition is Leash, however, which lets you make any alien into your own personal fighting pet. For instance, there's a new tech which keeps them calm, so you don't have hell to pay every time you have to stomp one of their nests, and another which lets you sic 'em on an enemy. You can do more things with/to them, too. There are quite a few more alien species hanging around, for a start, a few of which are pleasantly enormous and more ambitious in their design than the 'just some big green bugs, I guess' approach of the vanilla game.
While Rising Tide doesn't quite wash away the dryness, it does take Beyond Earth further away from Civ V, and closer to the otherworldly experience I know I'd been hoping for.
Not being the spiritual Alpha Centauri successor many had long prayed for was one thing, but not creating a meaningful sense of strange new worlds was the kicker. While perfectly solid, it was greeted with no little gloom at its conservatism, at how it felt so much like Civilization V with rather dry sci-fi lip service applied. The good news is that, with its first expansion, Beyond Earth feels much more its own game than it did before. It's out tomorrow, but I've spent the last few days with it. There's one with Civ III Complete, Civ IV, Civ V, and Beyond Earth for $25 one with Beyond Earth and Sid Meier's Starships for $21 and another with Beyond Earth, a map pack, and Rising Tide for $50.Rising Tide is the first, and some might say much-needed, expansion pack for Beyond Earth, the sci-fi Civilization V spin-off which met a somewhat muted reception. Any progress you make during the free weekend will transfer over.Īlternatively, you can pick up one of several discounted bundles that include Beyond Earth. Should you want to play after this weekend, you can pick it up from now until August 17 at 10 AM PDT for $20, a 50 percent discount. This is the full version of the game, which-being a Civilization game-offers dozens, if not hundreds of hours of gameplay. The weekend event is now live if you don't already own it, you can head to Steam, download Beyond Earth, and play as much as you want for free until Sunday, August 16. Alongside that, it's kicked off a free Steam weekend event, allowing anyone to play Beyond Earth for free and then pick up the full version (and Rising Tide) at a discount. 2K today announced that preorders for the first Civilization: Beyond Earth expansion, Rising Tide, are live.
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