{"id":454,"date":"2006-10-05T11:01:43","date_gmt":"2006-10-05T15:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/10\/05\/the-most-beautiful-game-world-ever\/"},"modified":"2006-10-05T11:01:43","modified_gmt":"2006-10-05T15:01:43","slug":"the-most-beautiful-game-world-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/10\/05\/the-most-beautiful-game-world-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"The most beautiful game world ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month I said that <em>Paraworld<\/em> would be an interesting title to watch. It has a truly unique setting and, most importantly, dinosaurs. People love dinosaurs.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Harris has suggested that it might be &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/dubiousquality.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/paraworld-at-go-gamer-2290.html\">the most beautiful gameworld ever created<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>I avoid using superlatives like &#8220;best game&#8221;, &#8220;prettiest world&#8221; or &#8220;worst writer&#8221;. Not because I don&#8217;t have opinions on these, but because I know that as soon as I do, someone is going to remind me of something I&#8217;ve forgotten. And beauty is more than pixel deep when in comes to games.<\/p>\n<p>Not that <em>Paraworld<\/em> isn&#8217;t good looking. I just don&#8217;t see a lot that sets it apart from the other RTS contenders. <em>Age of Empires III<\/em> has a polished shine about it, with reflections and shadows and shuddering trees. <em>Rise of Legends<\/em> has a confidence in its own mythology that transfers easily from desert to forest to industrial plain. <em>Battle for Middle Earth II<\/em> has a beautiful gameworld that isn&#8217;t even its own.<\/p>\n<p>As for <em>Paraworld<\/em> itself, try out the demo before you buy. I can see why people love it, but it&#8217;s fallen into the &#8220;wait and see&#8221; category for me. No matter how beautiful it is.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month I said that Paraworld would be an interesting title to watch. It has a truly unique setting and, most importantly, dinosaurs. People love dinosaurs. Bill Harris has suggested that it might be &#8220;the most beautiful gameworld ever created&#8220;. I avoid using superlatives like &#8220;best game&#8221;, &#8220;prettiest world&#8221; or &#8220;worst writer&#8221;. Not because I [&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-7k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454"}],"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=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}