{"id":1484,"date":"2009-05-20T12:12:47","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T17:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2009-05-20T12:12:47","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T17:12:47","slug":"new-histwar-screenshots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2009\/05\/20\/new-histwar-screenshots\/","title":{"rendered":"New Histwar Screenshots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The updates on <em>Histwar: Les Grognards<\/em> come so rarely, that I was genuinely surprised to get one in my email.It&#8217;s been in development forever, but apparently it&#8217;s finally in beta. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.battlefront.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=1393&#038;Itemid=185\">Battlefront has uploaded some new screenshots<\/a> of the Napoleon themed game, and it doesn&#8217;t look as good as <em>Empire: Total War<\/em>. The faces look especially sketchy.<\/p>\n<p>I sometimes wonder if screenshots are the best way to market some games. You don&#8217;t get a good feel for what this game is about here, and only the most diehard of fans will see these and say &#8220;Looking good!&#8221; You would need video or more text to really capture anything interesting about HW, I think, and a press release every six months with new screens doesn&#8217;t keep the enthusiasm up.<\/p>\n<p>Still looking forward to it, of course, since <em>Empire<\/em>, as good as the battles are, has too few historical encounters to really sate that appetite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The updates on Histwar: Les Grognards come so rarely, that I was genuinely surprised to get one in my email.It&#8217;s been in development forever, but apparently it&#8217;s finally in beta. Battlefront has uploaded some new screenshots of the Napoleon themed game, and it doesn&#8217;t look as good as Empire: Total War. The faces look especially [&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":[64],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-nW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484"}],"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=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1485,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}