And Sid Meier gave us 4X games with his magnum opus: Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. For some time, Alpha Centauri was the undisputed greatest game of all time.

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri is another one of those games that can make hours pass like minutes.

Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri is heralded as one of the best turn-based strategy games, and 4X titles of all time. Originally designed as the spiritual successor to Civilization II by Brian ...

I took full advantage of GoG's recent enormo-Sale and bought myself a load of classics, one of which was SMAC. Now, I've lost an unholy amount of time to Civ V recently and I thought SMAC might be ...

So it was inevitable I would eventually play Alpha Centauri. Sid Meier, the founder of Civilization, made the game with Brian Reynolds. TVTropes explains what followed ...

Alpha Centauri, Crusader: No Remorse hit GOG. The second round of classics Electronic Arts re-releases has arrived on digital distributor Good Old Games, in the form of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri ...

The update to Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri, marked version 1.5.2b1, is designed to fix a compatibility problem with Apple’s recently released Mac OS 9.1.Under some conditions, black pixels in ...

Co-created by Sid Meier and Brian Reynolds, Alpha Centauri is a spin off to Civilization which commands an overlapping, fairly rabid fan base. The sole game and expansion were published in 1999 by EA.

So if Alpha Centauri was Sid Meier and Co. making Civilization II in space, Beyond Earth is Sid Meier and Co. making Civilization V in space. It’s an oversimplification, perhaps, but not by much.

Originally I was a bit apprehensive about doing a review of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. I was afraid that some super hard core fans of Meier's original turn based strat, Civilization, were going ...