

In a final effort to give humanity a fresh start, the U.N. The backstory is told in depth by Alpha Centauri multimedia producer Mike Ely and it begins where Civilization ends.īy the year 2060, human civilization on planet Earth has been ravaged by war, famine, pollution and poverty. Unlike Civilization, where actual human history serves as a backstory, Alpha Centauri has its own distinct storyline about the establishment, advancement and ultimate fate of humanity on the planet Chiron in the Alpha Centauri system. His project began in February 2009 at Apolyton's Alpha Centauri site and moved in June 2009 to the Civilization Gaming Network, where he will continue developing further versions of the patch. The game has also been released under the Sold-Out Software label.īrendan Casey (scient) released Version 1.0 of the Unofficial SMAC/X Patch, which fixes some bugs in Alpha Centauri on May 7, 2010. Pre-patched versions of Alpha Centauri and Alien Crossfire were later bundled together in the Alpha Centauri Planetary Pack. Although being popular with gamers and critically acclaimed, the game never reached the heights of success of the Civilization games. An expansion pack called Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire (aka SMACX or just SMAX) was also released.

It picks up where Meier and Reynolds' earlier titles, Civilization and Civilization II, left off. The story entails the colonization of a planet in the Alpha Centauri star system. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (sometimes abbreviated to SMAC or Alpha Centauri) is a turn-based strategy computer game created by Brian Reynolds and Sid Meier in 1999 for the company they created along with Jeff Briggs, Firaxis Games.
