{"id":324,"date":"2006-03-16T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-16T20:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=324"},"modified":"2007-12-11T14:35:57","modified_gmt":"2007-12-11T18:35:57","slug":"2k-games-announces-the-2006-firaxis-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/03\/16\/2k-games-announces-the-2006-firaxis-lineup\/","title":{"rendered":"2k Games announces the 2006 Firaxis lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mostly don&#8217;t believe in premonitions. But I&#8217;ve had a hell of an odd month considering 2k&#8217;s announcements.<\/p>\n<p>It was <a href=\"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/03\/15\/even-more-roman-cities\/\">only yesterday<\/a> that I was complaining about the surge of Roman city building sims. So what does 2k announce? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/pc\/strategy\/civcityrome\/index.html\">CivCity: Rome<\/a>. For those keeping count, that makes four Roman city builders. In 2006. Nuts. It will be developed by Firefly Games (the Stronghold guys) with Firaxis overseeing things. By the way, since Firefly is manned by many former Impressions people, they will be going head to head on the same sort of game against Tilted Mill. Let the fur fly.<\/p>\n<p>Last week <a href=\"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/03\/08\/railroad-tycoon-goes-home-to-daddy\/\">I talked about the news<\/a> that Poptop Games was being folded into Firaxis, reuniting hot IP Railroad Tycoon with its founding father. So what is announced? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/pc\/strategy\/sidmeiersrailroads\/index.html\">Sid Meier&#8217;s Railroads!<\/a> It&#8217;s their exclamation point and not mine. It looks like it will be Railroad Tycoon IV in all but name, though the early artwork (naturally) is pretty train heavy.<\/p>\n<p>So the least exciting announcement was the obvious Civilization IV expansion, subtitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/pc\/strategy\/civilizationivwarlords\/index.html\">Warlords<\/a>. The screens there show some new leaders (Stalin, Churchill, Augustus, artwork for Ramsses), what appears to be new archer artwork, slingers, a trebuchet&#8230;no hint on the new civs. The press release makes me suspect a larger emphasis on the military side with new &#8220;warlord&#8221; units. This, too, was predictable given the muted complaints about how difficult conquest could be.<\/p>\n<p>Not a really exciting lineup, to be honest. All that talent in one office and still no great new idea. Would it kill them to surprise me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mostly don&#8217;t believe in premonitions. But I&#8217;ve had a hell of an odd month considering 2k&#8217;s announcements. It was only yesterday that I was complaining about the surge of Roman city building sims. So what does 2k announce? CivCity: Rome. For those keeping count, that makes four Roman city builders. In 2006. Nuts. It [&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":[8,2],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-5e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324"}],"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=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}