Civilisation: Beyond Earth is getting a new expansion. For the first time in a Civilisation game, water tiles will play a significant part in how players build cities. DIY Rapture, here we come.

It's not a smug Gandhi, or a Great Library, but this new project on LEGO's Ideas platform is nevertheless an official piece of Civilization LEGO. It just needs some votes to help turn it into a real thing you can buy.

The latest Civ title, Beyond Earth, is pretty good, even if parts of the game are a little more pedestrian than others. Maybe there's a reason for that. Maybe all the game needed was a little more faith.

So Civilization: Beyond Earth came out last week and from what I can tell, the reaction has been slightly mixed.

Okay, let me rephrase that. The reviews weren't mixed, the reviews have been mostly positive, but Civ fans themselves seems a little divided.

Whatever you do, no matter how tempted you are by the sci-fi setting and purple landscape, don't think of this as a brand new video game.

This is the intro to the almost-out Civilisation: Beyond Earth. I hope you weren't expecting a merry jaunt as humanity smiles its way to the stars along a rainbow made of puppies.

Video: Debuting during the Firaxis Megapanel at PAX Prime this weekend, the "Master Control" gameplay trailer for Sid Meier's Civilisation: Beyond Earth teaches us about the Purity Affinity, Virtues, the Orbital Layer and how October 24 can't come soon enough.

At least do the courtesy of hiding your tracks.