
Now that the Rising Tide expansion is out, there’s really only one question it needs to answer: does it finally feel like its own game? The answer, I think, is a hesitant “yes”.

But on the other hand, it’s clear that people were expecting more out of Beyond Earth. On the one hand, that speaks well of the modding community, and mod support, of Civ 5 that such a claim could be made so casually.

The big criticism of Beyond Earth when it came out was that is felt like a Civilization V mod.
