{"id":413,"date":"2006-09-01T11:41:43","date_gmt":"2006-09-01T15:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/09\/01\/apocalypse-now\/"},"modified":"2006-11-08T20:02:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-09T00:02:00","slug":"apocalypse-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/09\/01\/apocalypse-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Apocalypse Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A demo is available for the End Times RTS <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leftbehindgames.com\/\">Left Behind: Eternal Forces<\/a><\/em>. Once I get the office organized and my upgrades installed, I&#8217;ll be giving it a whirl.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not the only person looking forward to this game. And, like many of them, I am probably looking forward to it in a most uncharitable and un-Christian manner. The books on which the game is based are terrible (<a href=\"http:\/\/slacktivist.typepad.com\/slacktivist\/left_behind\/index.html\">as both literature and theology<\/a>) and there is a sense of great expectation that <em>Left Behind: Eternal Forces<\/em> will be the guilty pleasure game of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Like many games that are clearly &#8220;about&#8221; something, it will certainly be a challenge for us pseudo-journalists. If a game has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afmpgame.com\/\">a positive message<\/a>, should that count in its favor? If a game has no redeeming social value and is only there to shock, should it be penalized? What if a game has a message that some find uplifting but others find a grotesque parody of a sacred message?<\/p>\n<p>The LB:EF developers have been very vocal in saying that they primarily wanted to make a good game, and, for the sake of gamers everywhere, I hope they do. We can always use more good games. There has been a lot of speculation about how much unbeliever slaying will be involved in the game, though, so I wonder if a good game is possible when it is based around a modern Crusade? (Curiously, gaming pundits have less problem with games made about the actual Crusades or other historic religious conflicts).<\/p>\n<p>The final game won&#8217;t be revealed until early November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A demo is available for the End Times RTS Left Behind: Eternal Forces. Once I get the office organized and my upgrades installed, I&#8217;ll be giving it a whirl. I&#8217;m not the only person looking forward to this game. And, like many of them, I am probably looking forward to it in a most uncharitable [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-6F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413"}],"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=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}