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The new planet that you’ll be calling home over a typical 6-8 hour game session teems with alien life that can be lethally aggressive to your fledgling colony and its citizens if you get on their bad side. Once you’ve made planetfall and your first city starts to develop in earnest, it’s time for you to begin exploring and it’s here where Beyond Earth really starts to take off. It’s a cool feature and one that seeks to enhance the habitually routine early game that previous Civilization titles can be sometimes.

Each of these options deliver a unique set of bonuses from additional starting resources and units to science, production and culture bonuses or even an enhanced view of the dropzone or planet surface. You start with a pre-game draft of sorts as you select not only a faction to play as but also the colonists, craft and cargo that you’ll be taking with you. As first impressions go it’s a good one: it’s all about this new world  a grand adventure that awaits anyone brave enough to make planetfall.

The title screen alone does wonders for introducing you to the game’s theme with a minimalist appearance comprising of sleek menus and a gorgeous render of a distant planet sitting in the background. So with that, let’s talk about what the game gets right. Directly inspired by (and billed as a spiritual successor to) the lauded title Sid Meier’s: Alpha Centauri, it’s obvious that Beyond Earth has some pretty big shoes to fill this time around. Supremely addictive and remarkably esoteric in presentation, the Civilization series presents a heady mix of turn based empire building, strategy and exploration that has remained a staple of the ‘4X game’ diet since the beginning. For those of you just joining us, Sid Meier’s Civilization Beyond Earth is Firaxis Games‘ newest installment/spinoff in the classic Civilization series that sees your futuristic empire transported to a new world in dire need of culture, conflict and colonization.