Who are you calling “rag-tag”?
After their big mobile offensive in 2013, I’d been wondering why Uncle Sid & Co at Firaxis had been so quiet in 2014. Well here’s what they’d been beavering away at in secret: Sid Meier’s Starships, just announced for desktops and iPad, coming “early 2015″.
Like the wonderful Ace Patrol games, Spaceships is designed by the hand of Sid Meier himself, creator of Civilization and Railroad Tycoon and too many other strategy classics to mention. It’s set up as a spinoff of last year’s (slightly underwhelming) desktop 4X Civilization: Beyond Earth. According to the details that Firaxis have given to Gamespot, it sounds like Uncle Sid’s Star Trek fan fiction: you travel the galaxy amassing an armada of upgradeable, customizable ships while you win new allies to your cause and get into turn-based battles with the aliens that don’t want to play ball. Procedurally generated maps and “dynamically generated tactical combat” (?) make it sound as though replay value was a big priority.
I have never failed to play a game with Sid Meier’s name on it and I certainly don’t intend to start now. I’ll have more details as soon as I can prise them out of 2K. There’s a trailer below and more screenshots over at Gamespot.
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