By Matt Peckham
The crack about some of the “all-new features” is corny, but the rest of this official Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth gameplay video is enthralling if you’re a turn-based strategy buff.
Crank things up to 1080p, turn on annotations and dive in. You can hop between chapters by clicking the tabs at screen bottom.
The game, which charts your colonization of another world using an enhanced version of the Civilization V engine (and which made our “biggest games of fall list“), is available for OS X and Windows on October 24.
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