Firaxis Reveals New Interstellar Strategy Game, Sid Meier's Starships

This looks like Sid Meier's Pirates!... in space. Hype intensified.

Time to replay Pirates.

sid meier's space board game...

Could be Sid Meier's Ace Patrol, but in space. I'd be down for that, those were some great games.

This reminds me of the teaser\trailer of Civ: Beyond Earth. No, not conceptually. Just the fact that there are no shots of the actual gameplay interface and the fact that you can watch the whole thing without having a clue of what genre the game is in, or even that it's a video game.

I mean, it's their choice if they want to tease with that video and give the gameplay information in screenshots and text, but that feels a lot less engaging, at least to me, compared to say the Smash Bros trailers where they would show some video but then follow it up with actual gameplay footage.

This reminds me of the teaser\trailer of Civ: Beyond Earth. No, not conceptually. Just the fact that there are no shots of the actual gameplay interface and the fact that you can watch the whole thing without having a clue of what genre the game is in, or even that it's a video game.

I mean, it's their choice if they want to tease with that video and give the gameplay information in screenshots and text, but that feels a lot less engaging, at least to me, compared to say the Smash Bros trailers where they would show some video but then follow it up with actual gameplay footage.

This reminds me of the teaser\trailer of Civ: Beyond Earth. No, not conceptually. Just the fact that there are no shots of the actual gameplay interface and the fact that you can watch the whole thing without having a clue of what genre the game is in, or even that it's a video game.

I mean, it's their choice if they want to tease with that video and give the gameplay information in screenshots and text, but that feels a lot less engaging, at least to me, compared to say the Smash Bros trailers where they would show some video but then follow it up with actual gameplay footage.

Kind of a dumb title.

It kinda reminds me of Galactic Civilization and some mod for Civ4. Looking to play it. Let's just hope it won't be a reskin of an existing game, like Civ:BE was a reskin of Civ5.

I got the chance to play Beyond Earth for a dozen hours or so this weekend. It's not bad; it just feels tired. After I played, I had an image of a middle aged man sprinting toward Alpha Centauri from Earth, getting tired after a bit and just sat down.

I've had a few thoughts after reading the scant details here. There is something inherently wrong with dynamically generated tactical combat in a strategy game. A deep roster of customizable ships is not in of itself impressive. As far as the next chapter of the Beyond Earth "story," I'll be blunt. Sid Meier's vision of Beyond Earth is bland, and there is no real personality in BE to motivate a story.

Could be cool, not sure why they just didn't put this in beyond earth....

Firaxis has serious competition in the sci-fi 4x scene. Endless Space, Galactic Civilizations, Distant Worlds and many others are prominent now, and a good year for the genre in 2014 may mean more shots at it in the near future. Firaxis needs to get this very right.

looks so lame

<< LINK REMOVED >> You may want to give Sins of a Solar Empire a try, might be more your style bud. its a RTS not a 4x game.

So he can't make Galactic Civilization, then he make this.

I would like to play this but I have said the same after seeing beyond earth marketing material and after few reviews I have lost "buy me" spark. ohhhh yeah