{"id":627,"date":"2007-04-14T15:45:54","date_gmt":"2007-04-14T19:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/04\/14\/rts-year-already-over\/"},"modified":"2008-02-18T03:40:30","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T07:40:30","slug":"rts-year-already-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/04\/14\/rts-year-already-over\/","title":{"rendered":"RTS Year Already Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or at least that&#8217;s the impression I get from Jason Ocampo&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/features\/6168947\/index.html\">feature on 2007 real time strategy games<\/a>. <em><a href=\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FTHQ-49304-Supreme-Commander%2Fdp%2FB000FNA2QY%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dvideogames%26qid%3D1176579414%26sr%3D8-1&#038;tag=flaofste-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">Supreme Commander<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=flaofste-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>&#8220;>Supreme Commander<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FCommand-Conquer-Tiberium-Wars-DVD%2Fdp%2FB000MG3LDA%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dvideogames%26qid%3D1176579414%26sr%3D8-6&#038;tag=flaofste-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">Commander and Conquer 3<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=flaofste-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/em> are already out, leaving us with not a lot to look forward to.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, we have the <em>Medieval 2<\/em> and <em>Company of Heroes<\/em> expansions, but they don&#8217;t really count, do they? And it&#8217;s much too early to have any firm opinions on <em>Empire Earth III<\/em> &#8211; I&#8217;m sort of looking forward to it, but the series has let me down in the past so I&#8217;m hedging my bets.<\/p>\n<p>I have no real knowledge of <em>Universe at War<\/em> or <em>World in Conflict<\/em>, both of which have titles straight out of a real time strategy title generator. <em>Sins of a Solar Empire<\/em> has a great title, but I&#8217;m equally unexcited, in spite of the Stardock name behind it.<\/p>\n<p>There will surely be a dozen smaller Euro-RTS games this year, but it&#8217;s odd that really no high profile RTS is on tap for the 2007 holiday months. I can&#8217;t remember the last year that had the real time strategy season end so quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or at least that&#8217;s the impression I get from Jason Ocampo&#8217;s feature on 2007 real time strategy games.<\/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":[41],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-a7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627"}],"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=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}