{"id":1077,"date":"2008-10-09T14:35:31","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T18:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/09\/colonization-review\/"},"modified":"2008-10-09T14:35:31","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T18:35:31","slug":"colonization-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/09\/colonization-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Colonization Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gameshark.com\/reviews\/3096\/Sid-Meier%E2%80%99s-Civilization-IV-Colonization-Review.htm\">My review of <em>Sid Meier&#8217;s Civilization IV: Colonization<\/em> is now up at Gameshark.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are some widely reported issues with the game, especially in how it handles Liberty Bells and education. The education one really doesn&#8217;t bother me that much since you don&#8217;t really need to educate that many people and most of the resource specialists can be found at native villages.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still a very good game, if harder than I remember. I like how it opens itself to emergent narratives, I like how it lets you take advantage of poorly defended neighbors and I like how it still tempts you with wiping out the indigenous peoples but ensuring that you know this is not always a good idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My review of Sid Meier&#8217;s Civilization IV: Colonization is now up at Gameshark. There are some widely reported issues with the game, especially in how it handles Liberty Bells and education. The education one really doesn&#8217;t bother me that much since you don&#8217;t really need to educate that many people and most of the resource [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,108,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-hn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}