This gives you a bit of flexibility in your strategy, though there's only a limited amount of optimization-it's not rock-paper-scissors units progress with each era in a straight-forward manner-it's more about when you get one of one type over one of the other. You're presented with opportunities for peace and trade or war and conquest.Īdvances are less linear than RTS games and improvements are permanent. You research technologies, which allow you to build better units and new city improvements. The premise is simple but has become timeworn: you take a faction from Stone Age primitivism to either global conquest or interplanetary colonization. While there had been earlier games that incorporated many of the features, such as conquest, tech trees, and city management, Sid Meier's landmark game brought them all together and with the necessary oomph and flair to appeal to a large demographic beyond just wargamers that gave it a staying power as one of the most dominant and recognizable PC franchises in history. Pacific Time.Sid Meier's Civilization was a watershed for the 4x genre before the genre even had its present name. The sale price runs through Monday morning at 10 a.m. New techs to uncover, new units to create, and new Gandhis to get nuked by! In addition to being free for the weekend, Beyond Earth is also on sale for 40% off. I f you're REALLY into the Civ series, you can grab the classics bundle for a nice 50% off, scoring Civilization III Complete, Civilization IV, Civilization V and Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth.īoth games can be downloaded and played for free this weekend, ending Sunday at 1 p.m. The game takes everything that's great about Civilization and sends it into space.
If strategically conquering things is more your plan, Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth will deliver. As an extra bonus, Saints Row IV and the rest of the franchise is also on sale this weekend for as much as 80% off the regular price. We played it, we reviewed it, and surprise surprise, we liked it! It's a bit like a souped-up expansion for the previous games, but it's hard to say no to a free weekend. Saints Row IV released in the fall of 2013 and brought with it a nice co-op mode that lets two online players run through the main game in tandem. It's time to either conquer the world or save it from an alien invasion! Pacific Time, you can download and play both Civilization: Beyond Earth and Saints Row IV for free. Got a PC and a ton of time this weekend? You're in luck, because Steam likes you very, very much.
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