{"id":559,"date":"2007-02-07T11:18:52","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T15:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/02\/07\/you-read-it-here-first\/"},"modified":"2008-02-24T13:45:55","modified_gmt":"2008-02-24T17:45:55","slug":"you-read-it-here-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/02\/07\/you-read-it-here-first\/","title":{"rendered":"You read it here first…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Six months ago<\/a>, I hypothesized that Supreme Commander<\/em>‘s use of a super zoom could lead to players’ ignoring all the artwork and animation so they could look at the big picture strategic zoom. Why deprive yourself of more information in real time combat by sticking close to ground level?<\/p>\n

Now, Gamespy’s Allen Rausch is saying pretty much the same thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As the campaign missions went on, the map got larger to the point where (except in a few specific cases) it became a waste of time to zoom in close enough to actually watch the battles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s a pretty helpful hands-on look at the demo, for the most part. He repeats the canard that there is too little strategy in real time strategy games (HINT: Economics and build orders are strategy, not tactics.) Rausch admits that he wasn’t a big Total Annihilation<\/em> fan, but says that maybe Supreme Commander<\/em> will “show us a whole new way to play the RTS.”<\/p>\n

The demo is widely available now, and hopefully it won’t take me ten hours to download it today, like it would have yesterday. Since I’m not a Total Annihilation veteran, I may just wait for the reviews to come in. (PCGamer and its UK sister mag, as usual, get the first reviews<\/a> to print and they are apparently glowing.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Six months ago, I hypothesized that Supreme Commander‘s use of a super zoom could lead to players’ ignoring all the artwork and animation so they could look at the big picture strategic zoom. Why deprive yourself of more information in real time combat by sticking close to ground level? Now, Gamespy’s Allen Rausch is saying […]<\/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":[81,41],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-91","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559"}],"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=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}