{"id":1101,"date":"2008-11-14T16:22:38","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T20:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/11\/14\/tropico-3\/"},"modified":"2009-03-20T11:33:23","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T16:33:23","slug":"tropico-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/11\/14\/tropico-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropico 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have some good news and some bad news.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluesnews.com\/cgi-bin\/board.pl?action=viewstory&#038;threadid=93213\"><br \/>\nThe good news<\/a> is that there will be a new <em>Tropico<\/em>, the celebrated city building\/person managing game series. Neither of the Tropicos were great games, but they had a spark of innovation and cleverness that the genre generally lacks. The banana republic themed first one was great because it was so new, though tyranny was a lot more trouble than it was worth. (Maybe Socrates was right.) The pirate themed second one was also pretty clever, and it had pirates. A new Tropico game should be reason to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings us to the bad news. It will be developed by Haemimont Games, a studio that hasn&#8217;t been able to make an enjoyable Roman themed city builder even though they could steal from a lot of other games out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that there will be a new Tropico, the celebrated city building\/person managing game series. Neither of the Tropicos were great games, but they had a spark of innovation and cleverness that the genre generally lacks. The banana republic themed first one was [&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":[33],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-hL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101"}],"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=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1282,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions\/1282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}