Let’s start the New Year right.<\/p>\n
January 9<\/strong> – Heart of Empire: Rome<\/em> (Paradox\/Deep Red)<\/p>\n January 15<\/strong> – City Life: World Edition<\/em> (CDV\/Monte Cristo)<\/p>\n January 23<\/strong> – Europa Universalis III<\/em> (Paradox)<\/p>\n January 30<\/strong> – Battlestations: Midway<\/em> (Eidos)<\/p>\n So, four games. Early in the year, of course, and this is otherwise shaping up to be an excellent year for strategy games. The big title for me on this list is, of course, EU3. Review copies are already out, so I have been playing it. I can’t say much else until the review is done.<\/p>\n Battlestations: Midway<\/em> is probably the most interesting title this month, especially in light of the deeply divided reaction that greeted Pacific Storm<\/em>, a game I could never quite warm up to. Mixing battle planning and action sequences is an interesting idea, but there’s quite a gap between making the action part of the strategy (like in a real time strategy game) and having action that removes you from the big picture. It is also a PC\/Xbox 360 game – a growing trend. Given the Microsoft relationship to RTS development, it shouldn’t be too surprising that its console is becoming the go-to second platform for these types of games. One more reason to get a 360 instead of the oh-so-cute Wii.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let’s start the New Year right. January 9 – Heart of Empire: Rome (Paradox\/Deep Red) January 15 – City Life: World Edition (CDV\/Monte Cristo) January 23 – Europa Universalis III (Paradox) January 30 – Battlestations: Midway (Eidos) So, four games. Early in the year, of course, and this is otherwise shaping up to be an […]<\/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":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-8y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530"}],"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=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}