{"id":14,"date":"2004-12-17T11:18:38","date_gmt":"2004-12-17T15:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=14"},"modified":"2006-08-20T13:21:39","modified_gmt":"2006-08-20T17:21:39","slug":"end-of-year-wrapups-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2004\/12\/17\/end-of-year-wrapups-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"End of Year wrapups begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/goty.gamespy.com\/2004\/pc\/\">Gamespy&#8217;s End of Year <\/a>wrap-up has three strategy games on their PC top ten list: Warhammer, Rome and Sims 2, with Sims 2 taking <a href=\"http:\/\/goty.gamespy.com\/2004\/pc\/index11.html\">strategy game of the year<\/a> honors. I guess you could consider Pirates a strategy game, after a fashion, but it&#8217;s really more action\/RPG in my opinion. <a href=\"http:\/\/goty.gamespy.com\/2004\/pc\/index20.html\">Warhammer<\/a> gets the nod as the game that best used a license and Kohan 2 is acknowledged as the <a href=\"http:\/\/goty.gamespy.com\/2004\/pc\/index21.html\">most underrated game of 2004<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bestof.ign.com\/2004\/pc\/\">IGN<\/a> has given out its PC Game of the Year awards, too, and recognizes the same big games &#8211; Sims 2 and Rome. Sims 2 gets dubbed best management sim of the year and Rome wins best strategy game and best use of sound. Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots wins best expansion of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Not many real surprises here. I don&#8217;t take IGN all that seriously &#8211; they have a &#8220;Babes&#8221; section, for crying out loud &#8211; but both sites have made reasonable cases. The lack of Doom 3 awards is kind of shocking given the general salivation from the mainstream press, but since it&#8217;s a shooter I won&#8217;t say anymore than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gamespy&#8217;s End of Year wrap-up has three strategy games on their PC top ten list: Warhammer, Rome and Sims 2, with Sims 2 taking strategy game of the year honors. I guess you could consider Pirates a strategy game, after a fashion, but it&#8217;s really more action\/RPG in my opinion. Warhammer gets the nod as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}