{"id":321,"date":"2006-03-10T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-10T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=321"},"modified":"2006-08-18T12:42:58","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T16:42:58","slug":"cuban-missile-crisis-the-aftermath-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/03\/10\/cuban-missile-crisis-the-aftermath-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban Missile Crisis: The Aftermath Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first review for Strategy Zone Online is up. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strategyzoneonline.com\/articles.php?p=737&amp;page=1&amp;cat=52\">Cuban Missile Crisis: The Aftermath<\/a> is a Cold War era RTS set in a world where Kennedy and Khrushchev didn&#8217;t reach a peaceful settlement of the 1962 crisis.<\/p>\n<p>I liked it a little better than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerankings.com\/htmlpages2\/920457.asp\">most reviewers have<\/a>. It&#8217;s not a recommendation &#8211; even at a score in the high sixties. Quirks of the site&#8217;s scoring system lead to a score that high. But I do think that it has something that game designers should take a look at.<\/p>\n<p>CMC has an innovative turn-based campaign mode that, with a better skirmish game underneath, could have made it stand out as a major title. Instead, poor map design and some really difficult missions mean that the campaign mode will be ignored by most gamers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first review for Strategy Zone Online is up. Cuban Missile Crisis: The Aftermath is a Cold War era RTS set in a world where Kennedy and Khrushchev didn&#8217;t reach a peaceful settlement of the 1962 crisis. I liked it a little better than most reviewers have. It&#8217;s not a recommendation &#8211; even at 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-5b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321"}],"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=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}