{"id":440,"date":"2006-09-20T14:16:15","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T18:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/09\/20\/disturbing-strategy-screenshot-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2006-09-20T14:16:15","modified_gmt":"2006-09-20T18:16:15","slug":"disturbing-strategy-screenshot-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/09\/20\/disturbing-strategy-screenshot-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Disturbing Strategy Screenshot of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.pc.ign.com\/media\/729\/729433\/img_3926075.html\">This screenshot in the latest gallery<\/a> from <em>Ancient Wars: Sparta<\/em> has a sheep gushing a lot of blood while the peasant chops its head off. That wool will never come clean.<\/p>\n<p>Having never killed a sheep, I can&#8217;t say that sheep don&#8217;t spurt blood like that. However, I am fairly certain that you are supposed to slash their throats or brain them with a heavy mallet and not decapitate them like you&#8217;re Old McDonald&#8217;s executioner.<\/p>\n<p>Unless the farmer in this shot is enacting some sort of death penalty.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m no vegetarian. And I&#8217;ve happily killed my share of sheep and cows in <em>Age of Empires<\/em>, either to feed my people or to make sure my enemy couldn&#8217;t feed his. But there&#8217;s really no need to make animal slaughter a messy enterprise. RTS games, despite their inherent violence, have mostly been free of the blood for blood&#8217;s sake stuff that started in shooters and can now be found in many RPGs. From the other <em>Sparta<\/em> screens, the man-to-man battles look as sanitized as those you&#8217;d find anywhere else in the industry, so I&#8217;m not clear why we need to see sheep&#8217;s blood at all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This screenshot in the latest gallery from Ancient Wars: Sparta has a sheep gushing a lot of blood while the peasant chops its head off. That wool will never come clean. Having never killed a sheep, I can&#8217;t say that sheep don&#8217;t spurt blood like that. However, I am fairly certain that you are supposed [&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-76","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440"}],"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=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}