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robske -> RE: Pandora vs Beyond Earth (Civilization in space)? (10/25/2014 9:50:32 AM)
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I've played Civ BE. It felt for me like civ 5 rehashed into a scifi theme. Lacks any of the personality that SMAC had. It even has LESS personality than Pandora. And I thought Pandora was pretty bad in that respect.
For me, being a seasoned SMAC and civ player (spent ****loads of hours in SMAC, civ2 and civ4 and i despised civ5), I find civ BE not challenging enough in survival on the planet amongst other things. In SMAC, trying to survive amidst plagues of mindworms was harsh (if played on appropriate difficulty levels). On Pandora, you got of course the Messari who can be a real pain in the butt. In Civ BE, you just throw down a certain defense building and right from that point on native life can't touch your cities and a 3 tile radius around them. That just doesn't make sense at all imo from a gameplay perspective unless you want to make it suitable for newbies.
Civ BE is solid in its mechanics though, and seems to have taken over many of the bugfixes and performance optimizations which civ5 has gotten. But besides the lack of character and the game feeling too easy to play, I got another major complaint of civ BE when comparing it to Pandora. Civ BE does a far worse job at providing a clean UI and proper feedback on why things happen and how to fix them. Not to mention that right now civ BE has /less/ content than Pandora and costs quite some more money, I find it hard to recommend civ BE unless you're someone who has never played a civ-like game before.
In my steam review of civ BE i only recommended it because its a mostly bugfree release. I clearly told people that if they want a really awesome story and can stand old graphics, they should go play SMAC. If they're a seasoned civ player, go for Pandora. I may be going to change my review into not recommending the game the more I think of what civ BE has to offer compared to other games out there...
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