{"id":1711,"date":"2009-08-18T11:09:31","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T16:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2009-08-18T11:09:31","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T16:09:31","slug":"starcraft-single-player-campaign-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/18\/starcraft-single-player-campaign-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Starcraft Single Player Campaign Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think that if you are using the word “fuck” four times in a previe<\/a>w that you really need to find another way of expressing yourself. And writing that something “screams Blizzard” isn’t very helpful considering they haven’t done an RTS in half a decade and I don’t see anything in the screenshots that scream much of anything.<\/p>\n

But Garratt’s Starcraft II<\/em> preview does have a helpful rundown of the first few missions in the campaign, none of which seem especially original or surprising. The videos<\/a> and screenshots of the game convince me that it will have nice colors and explosions, but I’m still a little cautious about embracing it.<\/p>\n

Part of the problem is the first Starcraft<\/em>. It was the RTS that changed everything. Given how much the genre has changed over the years, it will be much harder for Starcraft to have that kind of impact. Blizzard is one of the most talented studios in the business and I have little doubt that it will be a shiny and impressive piece of programming.<\/p>\n

I haven’t read much beyond the name itself, though, that makes me sit up and take notice. Maybe I need to get a hands on to be sold (and I wasn’t invited) but this is one of those all to frequent instances, I think, where nostalgia is fueling gamers’ attention.<\/p>\n

Sometimes a shiny and impressive piece of programming is enough, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think that if you are using the word “fuck” four times in a preview that you really need to find another way of expressing yourself. And writing that something “screams Blizzard” isn’t very helpful considering they haven’t done an RTS in half a decade and I don’t see anything in the screenshots that scream […]<\/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":[105,2,41],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-rB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711"}],"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=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1712,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions\/1712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}