How Firaxis is building its Civilization: Beyond Earth

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Everything went wrong when six Siege Worms suddenly appeared out of the ground. Think Dune's sandworms, only without their water allergy weakness, as comfortable in the grasslands of humanity's new home as its deserts, canyons and the less familiar fungal blooms. Attempts to keep very, very quiet or point to the nearest enemy city didn't go so well, as one giant's tendrils whipped every soldier in the area into human paste, before turning its attention inwards.
Conquering the world is much harder when the world itself fights back.
For Firaxis, however, there's a much bigger challenge than simply ushering humanity into a technologically advanced future, and that's doing it in the shadow of Alpha Centauri, one of the most beloved 4X games save for Civilization itself. The bad news is that Beyond Earth isn't, in any real sense, Alpha Centauri 2. The good news is that it's not constrained by having to try to be , able to both cherry-pick from its legacy and craft a whole new path for humanity.
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