

First off, the planet hits back really fast and really hard. That said, while it seems perfectly stable, it does feel a bit work-in-progress at the moment, with a bunch of stuff that could really use balancing or fleshing-out.Īll that said, it does a lot of really interesting new things, and I really like a lot of what they've done that's different: However, the one thing I'm not sure it can ever have is the sheer character of Alpha Centauri - they did something really amazing with the writing of that game that made all the factions and the world ooze character, and I don't think a retread can possibly capture that.Īnd looking at their forums, the devs are actively adding new features (seems like more terraforming and supply crawlers are next), so I have some high hopes for it. It's fairly stripped-back in comparison, but it's a small team with a small budget so it's understandable.

The factions are a complete cut-n-paste job (except they shafted poor Pravin Lal), the xenofungus, the techs, the quotes for everything, the unit workshop, etc. It is utterly transparent in its attempt to be a modernised Alpha Centauri, I mean there is zero attempt to hide it whatsoever.
