FEBRUARY 2020 PCWorld 91situations will present themselves outside a
demo. We’ll see.
- HUMANKIND
Release date: To be confirmed
If you shoot at the king, you better not miss.
For years Amplitude’s taken potshots at
Civilization’s 4X hegemony, with the unique
and innovative Endless Legend (go.pcworld.
com/enlg) and
then Endless
Space 2 (go.
pcworld.com/
ens2). But there’s
a real battle
brewing in 2020,
when Amplitude
is due to release
Humankind.
It’s a direct
challenge to
Civilization, a
historical 4X that starts at the dawn of human
civilization and takes it up through the present
day. Humankind is no Civilization clone
though. Amplitude’s upending the formula,
rethinking a lot of the ideas Civilization is so
loathe to abandon. Victory, for instance,
doesn’t entail outlasting your opponents.
“Fame” is the metric for success, and past
glories can be as important to securing a
legacy as
present-day
ones. Think of
the Roman
Empire, the
Egyptians, or
the Khans.
Interesting
ideas, and brave.
Exactly what I’d
expect from
Amplitude.9.10.