Will there be an Alpha Centauri 2?

[Don Maddox]

Do you think Firaxis will finally go ahead and do an Alpha Centauri 2? Considering the progress that has been made in the Civ series, one can only imagine what a modern version of AC would look like. I want it!

[dita]

I don`t think one will arrive any time soon. With the announcment of a revisit to Railroad tycoon and the development of Civ City along with an CIV4 expansion pack I think we may be waiting for some time.....:(

Still, you never know.....

I`ve often wondered why a CIV4 expansion doesn`t appear that is a kind of Alpha Centauri 2 "light". I think there is some fan made mods for such.

[Arno]

That would be great indeed!
I haven't played AC that much, but my dad is probably one of the "wise old men" regarding this game :D I gave it to him as a birthday present just as it came out (he was still playing CIV I (!) at the time) and he hasn't played anything else since. (That was 7 years ago...)

Now anytime I talk to him about tactical problems in TOAW III, he starts raving about those Air-mobile tanks he constructed in Alpha Centauri :freak:

We'll be on a short vacation together in september and I'll try converting him to TOAW or TacOps but I'm afraid only Alpha Centauri 2 will do the trick... :laugh:

Cheers
Arno

PS is there a AC community to speak of??? He might find some opponents there.

[Troy Goodfellow]

AFAIK, EA still owns the rights to the Alpha Centauri name. So anyone who wanted to make another explicit sequel would have to get around that.

[KingNothing12]

No, because EA owns the rights.

[Yang]

Well there was a survey on the Firaxis site maybe a year ago on which of the old Sid Meiers´ titles the Gamers wants to see next, AC was on that list as well. Would be interesting to know how that poll ended but if they ever published the results i came too late.

Naming is just a small Obstacle if they can´t obtain the rights for AC2 they can just go for another well known star system. Everybody would quickly get the idea what Firaxis was developing when they announced a game called "Tau Ceti", wouldn´t they? ;)

Still, there is a grief since i have a hard time trying to imagine how an TC (nice, even the abbreviation fits) would look like with the Happy-Go-Lucky looks of the recent Sid Meier games. AC always had a bit of a sinister tone, don´t think i´d like it spoiled by Frederick, the friendly fungus and Archy, the peaceful Alien. He just wants to trade and share his technology for free, really! :laugh:

I mean Railroads! and the new Pirates! couldn´t spark any lasting interest with me since they were so shallow compared to the precedessors. One game of Railroads! took about an hour and after a few games you have seen it all. As for Pirates! apart from the comic look the easy-peasy approach to gameplay (removing of all sim elements like measuring the sun height, scaling the world down so you can never get lost, no surprising sea-encounters since you always know whats going around you and so on...) prevented me from ever liking it as much as its predecessor.
Civ 4 seems to be an exception of the rule, allthough i really miss the council of Civ 2. :laugh:

PS.: Hi there, first post outside of the DG forum. :D