Three Moves Ahead 537: Humankind

Three Moves Ahead

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Strategy, Games & Hobbies, War, Strategy Games, Games, War Games, Video Games

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2021

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Len, Rowan, and Fraser gather to discuss Amplitude's Humankind, the Civ competitor that has been looming large over our release radar for the past couple years. How does it compare to Sid Meier's finest work, and even this studio's previous 4X forays? Will it reignite the spark for those who have lost their love for the turn-based march through history? And aside from all that, is this game even done?

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0:00.0	Good evening. You're listening to Three Moves Ahead. I'm your host for this week, Leanna,
0:04.2	joined by our friend's freelance writer Rowan Kaiser.
0:07.7	Hello.
0:09.2	And PC Gamer's online editor, Fraser Brown.
0:12.8	Hello.
0:14.3	And we're talking about the, one of the bigger strategy game releases for this year.
0:20.4	It is Amplitude's historical 4X. I'm going to call it a direct sieve
0:26.6	competitor. I think that that's very much what they were going for. I've seen a couple people be like,
0:32.8	oh, I don't think they were trying to be a sieve killer. And I'm like, no, I think they were.
0:36.4	That's a dumb take. They should be a shame. That and I'm like no I think they were that's a dumb take they should
0:38.8	be a shame that's really stupid amplitude themselves are like we saw things all these things about
0:44.7	sieve that we wanted to fix so we made a sieve well no except they're the I think they're not allowed
0:49.9	I don't think anyone from Amplitude is allowed to say the word sieIV or Civilization, because they always avoid it in any interview I do.
0:56.8	But they talk about it in interviews anyway.
0:59.4	Our competitors, or yeah, or something like that.
1:02.1	It's so Sive.
1:03.3	It's even more SIV than Old World, which was very, very SIV.
1:07.4	Definitely.
1:08.3	It's more SIV than SIV 5 or Sip 6.
1:12.6	It's a historical 4X where you start out in like, you know, caveman times and you go all the way up to like Space Age.
1:21.7	It has...
1:22.8	One of the things that ends the game is colonizing another planet.
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