{"id":236,"date":"2005-09-09T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-09T20:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=236"},"modified":"2006-08-18T17:24:39","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T21:24:39","slug":"civilization-moves-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2005\/09\/09\/civilization-moves-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Civilization moves forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cgonline.com\/content\/view\/1083\/\">Matt Gallant has already made the joke about rushing production<\/a>, but the early launch for <i>Civilization IV<\/i> is great news. It means that I have to wait a few less weeks for a new gaming fix, and if my earlier hands-on time with <i>Civ IV<\/i> means anything, I may not need another game for a while.<\/p>\n<p>The pre-order special includes a tech tree map and a spiral bound manual for no extra cost &#8211; further encouragement for me to get my money down early once the retailers get up to speed on this offer. I think every game should come with a spiral manual, and tech trees where necessary. Better interfaces and in game help are increasingly making both manuals and fold out guides unnecessary, but I still like them. I&#8217;m a little old-fashioned that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Gallant has already made the joke about rushing production, but the early launch for Civilization IV is great news. It means that I have to wait a few less weeks for a new gaming fix, and if my earlier hands-on time with Civ IV means anything, I may not need another game for a [&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-3O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236"}],"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=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}