5 Reasons to be Excited for Civilization: Beyond Earth

Tech Web

One of the most important aspects of the Civilizations games is the Tech Tree that shows the players what they can research and what technology they’ll gain access to in the future by doing so.While it branches off into some different directions, up to this point it’s been a bit linear – every civilization is in the end gonna end up at the same place technologically, it’s just a matter of how they get there and what special stuff they get – but in Beyond Earth the Tech Tree’s been replaced by a Tech Web that branches off into lots and lots of different directions. This change could lead to civilizations turning out radically different from one another based on what they research and allow for deeper, more nuanced play with a lot more possibilities.