While this game directly copies the personalities of Alpha Centauri's faction leaders, it changes two non-white leaders to Caucasians (Morgan→Preston and Santiago→Heid), and drops another non-white (Lal). The story is very lame, the leader backgrounds are exaggerated and annoying stereotypes. Artwork like the unit models and leader portraits get old really fast. I also liked the initial struggle against native life, but it becomes irrelevant pretty soon, even with the expansion and even on the hardest setting. I did like the gameplay innovations like a worker only harvesting a single yield type from a tile, and global resource stockpiles these were surprisingly fun and sensible deviations from the Civ standards and made the game as a whole more interesting. I also liked the initial struggle against native Overall, a soulless and bland rehash of Alpha Centauri that won't last nearly as long.
Overall, a soulless and bland rehash of Alpha Centauri that won't last nearly as long.
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