{"id":15,"date":"2004-12-18T13:21:08","date_gmt":"2004-12-18T17:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2006-08-20T13:21:24","modified_gmt":"2006-08-20T17:21:24","slug":"age-of-empires-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2004\/12\/18\/age-of-empires-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Age of Empires 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last couple of weeks, <a href=\"http:\/\/ensemblestudios.com\">Ensemble Studios<\/a> has had little historical teasers on their website, advertising the upcoming Age of Empires 3. So far we&#8217;ve had the usual stuff on Sargon, the Greeks, the Romans, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Now we have one that&#8217;s clearly Medieval &#8211; &#8220;1096 &#8211; the First Crusade&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This can only mean one thing. Age of Empires 3 will be a combination of the first two Age games, taking us from the beginning of history into the Middle Ages.<\/p>\n<p>Will they go beyond that? Unclear, but unlikely. Bruce Shelley told me in an unpublished interview that pre-mechanization weapons have a lot going for them game design wise, not least of which are ease of comprehension and looking cool.<\/p>\n<p>So you heard it hear &#8211; but probably not first &#8211; &#8220;Age of Empires 3: Stabby, stabby goodness.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last couple of weeks, Ensemble Studios has had little historical teasers on their website, advertising the upcoming Age of Empires 3. So far we&#8217;ve had the usual stuff on Sargon, the Greeks, the Romans, etc. Now we have one that&#8217;s clearly Medieval &#8211; &#8220;1096 &#8211; the First Crusade&#8221;. This can only mean one [&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-f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"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=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}