{"id":497,"date":"2006-11-27T15:28:52","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T19:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/11\/27\/heroes-of-annihilated-empires-interview\/"},"modified":"2006-11-27T15:29:53","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T19:29:53","slug":"heroes-of-annihilated-empires-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/11\/27\/heroes-of-annihilated-empires-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroes of Annihilated Empires Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cgonline.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=1021&#038;Itemid=0&#038;limit=1&#038;limitstart=0\">CGOnline has posted a very detailed interview<\/a> with GSC Gameworld&#8217;s Oleg Yavorsky. The subject is their latest RTS and it sounds&#8230;interesting.<\/p>\n<p>The whole &#8220;RPG or RTS?&#8221; divide is what <em>Heroes of Annihilated Empires<\/em> will have going for it in a year already crowded with interesting strategy games. Last year&#8217;s <em>Dragonshard<\/em> had a little bit of that vibe, but, I haven&#8217;t tried Heroes yet so I don&#8217;t know how it will compare. By the sound of it, <em>Heroes<\/em> will allow for a purer RPG path within the RTS environment than even that D&#038;D game.<\/p>\n<p>The emphasis on the storyline &#8211; going so far as to have novelizations of the game &#8211; has me both excited and on edge. Story based campaigns are inevitably the weak link in strategy games. Very good games (like <em>Rise of Legends<\/em> or <em>Age of Empires III<\/em>) can have terrible campaigns and nobody really cares. Once you throw roleplaying into the mix, though, the idea of following heroes through a story, the campaign begins to have more of a pull; once again <em>Dragonshard<\/em> is the best example here, though <em>Warcraft III<\/em> or <em>Kohan<\/em> also fit the model.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerankings.com\/htmlpages2\/923900.asp\">The early buzz<\/a> on the game isn&#8217;t good, but I haven&#8217;t read any of the reviews in any detail. I think that I am so attracted by the attempts at innovation here, that I want to give this a spin completely unpolluted by other opinions. (I <em>try<\/em> to stick to this strategy when I am reviewing a game, but normally I consume reviews like candy when it&#8217;s simply a matter of buying.)<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;ll wait until people I trust give me some feedback on this, or it drops a bit in price. But read the interview anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CGOnline has posted a very detailed interview with GSC Gameworld&#8217;s Oleg Yavorsky. The subject is their latest RTS and it sounds&#8230;interesting. The whole &#8220;RPG or RTS?&#8221; divide is what Heroes of Annihilated Empires will have going for it in a year already crowded with interesting strategy games. Last year&#8217;s Dragonshard had a little bit of [&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-81","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497"}],"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=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}