{"id":482,"date":"2006-11-07T18:03:29","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T22:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/11\/07\/company-of-heroes-review\/"},"modified":"2006-11-07T18:10:33","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T22:10:33","slug":"company-of-heroes-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/11\/07\/company-of-heroes-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Company of Heroes Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can read my full <em>Company of Heroe<\/em>s review over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xtreme-gamer.com\/index.php?option=com_articles&#038;id=8&#038;aid=116#\">Xtreme-Gamer<\/a> (aka, Strategy Zone Online: The Next Age).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to convey in mere text and images just how good this game is, so do get the demo. It&#8217;s one of those necessary reminders that innovation in gaming isn&#8217;t about making everything original. I know that I&#8217;m often guilty of clamoring for new settings in games as if new settings would automatically make a game entertaining. For every game that comes along and takes advantage of an underdone world to bring new game ideas to the table (like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerankings.com\/htmlpages2\/920314.asp\">this one<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerankings.com\/htmlpages2\/452741.asp?q=europa%20universalis\">this one<\/a>) there are many more that squander interesting times and places on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerankings.com\/htmlpages2\/925198.asp\">tired mechanics<\/a> or just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerankings.com\/htmlpages2\/589547.asp?q=chariot\">plain poor design<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Not that I&#8217;m going to stop complaining about World War II games. There does come a point where enough is enough. But anything Relic does gets grandfathered in from now on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can read my full Company of Heroes review over at Xtreme-Gamer (aka, Strategy Zone Online: The Next Age). It&#8217;s hard to convey in mere text and images just how good this game is, so do get the demo. It&#8217;s one of those necessary reminders that innovation in gaming isn&#8217;t about making everything original. 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-7M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482"}],"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=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}