Civilization: Beyond Earth App Reviews

It’s just hollow. I can’t care about any of my cities or units because there is absolutely no personality to this game. I’ll play Civ V or Civ IV any day over this. The tech web in BE is inscrutable and has nothing tying it to any future technology scenario for reference. Disappointed.

Party like it’s 1999! At least, that’s what I thought when this update to Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri was announced. Seeing that the first update to CIV: BE also produces similar changes to the game as did Alpha’s, I wondered what’s the point? Gorgeous graphics and ambient creepiness make this the best looking and sounding CIV game ever—that’s the point! But I still prefer the mechanics of CIV IV to CIV II+ (aka CIV V) and this, "Alpha Centauri” on steroids. Finally, the aspect ratio of the loading screens have been fixed on my MBP. Yes, that’s you get when you upgrade until you buy the DLC. But that’s a separate story (and I’ll update this review accordingly).

First of all, congrats to Aspyr for creating a beautiful addition to the Civ world. The new sea terrain is gorgeous, deep and shallow waters teeming with life and resources are beautifully done. (Aditionally, the submersible explorer unit for excavating is a nice touch!). This expansion offers a ton of new developments: political capital, artifact research, a trade revamp, and floating cities just to name a few, but there are still some issues that need addressing. The Great: - New graphics! They are good enough that I’m tempted to upgrade my system just for this game. - The diplomatic traits. These new powerful political traits are game changing, and further negate the urge to behave badly with other worldly powers. Some may need some revisiting however, the +12 science/culture per trade at the top tier of the political trait is a HUGE boost. - Trade vessel tweak - no more incessant renewing of your trades! The auto-renew option was sorely needed. - Artifacts - some expeditions from an alien nest, old settlement, alien fossil, or downed craft result in the discovery of artifacts, which can be used toward big gains and discoveries. The Good: - More! - Civilizations, units, wonders. All good, but I want more. - Floating cities - ‘nuff said. - Political opinion screen - There’s a new little popup screen that that informs you when another Civ is happy or unhappy about something. It’s really nice to know exactly WHY you are making friends or enemies beyond warmaking and virtue sharing. - New virtue upgrade system is good, however slightly clunky still The Bad: - The endgame. - It’s still in need of some serious addressing. The other civs contact you relentlessly for trade opportunities but seem oblivious to your victory status. As the turns are winding down toward a victory condition there should be a global crescendo of some sort. Leaders should be trying to sabotage the project, or declare war. At the very least there should be some discussion about the massive global event that will soon occur. This goes both ways, if another Civ is nearing a victory, your advisors should be freaking out! which brings me too… - No advisors! - Sure, there are little icons on the tech tree and building/unit list list with recommendations, but I miss the advisors from past Civ series. - The participation award - upon a victory (or defeat) there’s sorely little reward: a trite cutscene with narration and no real replay. The beatuiful cinematic scene that opens the game should have a set of equally impressive counterparts that culminate it. It is a serious letdown after hours of gameplay. So all in all, the game is quite good. It is. It would just be so much better if the player were a bit more immersed in the experience.

Starting with the rising tide expansion (which is needed to make game play worth while at all) use of the orbital layer cause the application to fataly crash, now that the fix has been pushed out the application crashes no more then 15 seconds into a saved game. Until this is fixed this is a complete waste of money as the game so boring with out the expanded game play the expansion offers, even then much is needed to make this a viable experance.

Rising Tide expansion adds some cool new features. You can build cities in the ocean and later move them. You can modify diplomatic relationships. However, this version still has bugs iin it. My first game crashed after turn 340. I have it saved it but no matter how many times I try to relaunch, it fatally craches between turn 340 and 341. This needs to be fixed.

The updaate to Beyond Earth is nothing short of genius to me. Beyond earth was pretty good, but I still preferred to play CIV V until this new expansion. They added a lot of new elements, diplomacy and some cool new alien creatures, untils and Civ. It’s been hours of fun. Definitley get this update, even if you were a little disappointed in the first release.

I’ve been playing ever since the first Civilizations… This one is great but has one large bug. Using certain Satellites still causes the game to crash… Was hoping the 5 gb update would help (what ever happened to delta loads?) but sadly still stuck. Since the last comment is from june about the satellites… it is a little sad that nothing has been done about it. Load screen takes way too long… Besides those two major issues the game really is worth it… Just not until they are fixed…

I have had Beyond Earth for a few years now, I love the game and play it and other versions of Civ. Beyond Earth was working fine never crashing until now after I installed the latest update, now the game will not even open! So at this moment I am going to Civ Beyond Earth support!

I was psychd about this game. I like playing civ games. and there’s nothing wrong or bad about it… except that it crashes everytime I play it.. :c hopefully the bug is fixed soon. I spent $40 on this.I COULD OF BOUGHT A LOT OF MUSIC WITH THAT. ;-; and it crashes randomly for me. I haven’t had the luxury of getting past the first tech advancement.

Does not work since OS update. It was fun before then. Don’t spend your money on it yet.

Very disappointed in this game so far, the graphics are nice but i cant even do anything in the game because it takes forever for anything to load. The game start up took atleast 5 minutes then when i finally started a new game it took atleast 2 minutes for the first city to drop in place then it frooze completely. Hoping these issues are fixed soon.

No major issues with the game itself, it’s five star worthy and overall worth the price. However, it still has the random crashes when deploying sattelites to the oribtal screen that has been present since launch of the original game. This is exacerbated on larger maps with more factions interacting with the orbital layer. If you play small teams on small maps, you may never run across it. I will note that it does crash less than before and it’s more random. Two stars deducted with regards to Aspyr and lack of feedback and resolution on major playability issues like this.

I bought Civ: Beyond Earth and the Rising Tide expansion a few months ago. Worked fine with Yosemite OS X. But with upgrade to El Capitan Rising Tides became unplayable due to video issue (stretched mountain terrain). After several atempts to work this through with Aspyr support — they kept saying it would perhaps take three months — they started asking via email if I was satisfied with their resolution. Totally unacceptable. And what will Apple do about this lack of response for an app it sold? PS: My Aspyr request was numbered 76290 and first raised with them on Nov 26. Aspire won’t even let me lok in to see status of request.

With the new update the game do not work no more. But i did love the game.

I’ve played various iterations of the Civilization games for years, literally thousands of hours, and this version of Civilization: Beyond Earth, v1.1.4 is total garbage. It crashes continuously, often before a single turn can be played. It was really, really stable until this last update which has been a total disaster. It is anti-fun to play this game. Do not plunk down $40 for v1.1.4.

Bought this the other day and it crashing just after a few minutes repeatedly. I have not been even able to do a simple play through. I recommend DO NOT BUY until they actualy make the game playable.

I ignored the negative reviews and now wish I hadn’t. Civ 5 is definitely superior, this is really just a remasking of that game and WAY more confusing. Significantly more confusing, in fact, so much so that I ended up just researching random stuff because the tech ‘tree’ is now a ‘web’ that is incredibly hard to navigate. Save the money and wait for Civ 7. This really was disappointing.

I can never get to a point where I can complete the game. After around 200 turns the game becomes very unstable and crashes about every 2 or 3 turns. It’s very frustrating. I’ve played it on two different iMac computers and it’s the same on both. This version is the worst they’ve released. Do not buy it/upgrade until they release some stability fixes.

I know im just echoing other reviews, but this game is needlessly complicated & involves a massive learning curve before you can really start to enjoy it. I really wanted to love it, and I honestly gave it a shot thinking that I’d get the hang of it, but there is just no way this holds up to a great game like Civ5. While there are a few really clever ideas, It is not intuitive like a normal Civ game becuase it involves building a world based on speculative technology as opposed to the tried and true tech that we know and understand from history. I can see that a lot of work has gone into this, and it looks great, but I am ultimatly dissapointed & I regret the purchase. The true test came after 1 month of buying the game - when I felt the itch to play civ one day. I went to open Civ BE when I looked over at that lonely Civ5 icon in the corner of my screen. I finally decided to throw inthe towel on Civ BE and go back to Civ5. It was like a breath of fresh air - and I’ll never go back. I’ll never go back to the future. (who am I kidding… I’ll buy what ever they release lol)