The Firaxis representatives urged us not to go full aggro in attacking these aliens from the start, assuring us that they would generally ignore us if we ignored them. Right off, the most noticeable difference between Beyond Earth and earlier Civ games was the bug-like aliens swarming around our base city from the get go.
While it was hard to get a feel for the game's deeper structure in the short early demo (which only included 50 in-game turns), we were still able to get a general idea of the game's interstellar twist on some extremely familiar Civ gameplay. Following Firaxis' surprise announcement of Civilization: Beyond Earth just last month, and ahead of a wider unveiling at E3 next month, select members of the press were recently able to get an early look at a pre-alpha build of the game.
