{"id":696,"date":"2007-07-03T11:26:40","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T15:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/07\/03\/too-pretty-for-its-own-good\/"},"modified":"2008-02-18T03:13:35","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T07:13:35","slug":"too-pretty-for-its-own-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/07\/03\/too-pretty-for-its-own-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Pretty For Its Own Good?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My review copy of <em>Combat Mission: Shock Force<\/em> arrived yesterday, and, of course, I had to install it immediately. Naturally, it arrived without a paper manual, but I have a nice big PDF to print out once the rage subsides. Thanks Paradox!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really a pretty game, even though there&#8217;s a lot of desert terrain. Vehicles and men look great and the muzzle fire from a tank cannon has just the right WHOOMP effect. I think Battlefront has overrated the capability of the Syrian Army, but it is set in the near future. Maybe an Arab army will finally become a viable fighting force by 2010.  So, <em>Shock Force<\/em> requires all the tactical foresight of the games that have preceded it. This will be a very nice distraction for a while.<\/p>\n<p>But, my God, it&#8217;s slow. Very slow. Zooming in and out isn&#8217;t smooth at all. The camera lurches from spot to spot like an aging lion with one foot in a bear trap. If you turn down some of the graphics, it gets a little better but then, what&#8217;s the point? If you are going to make a game that looks this good, it should be remotely playable with tanks that don&#8217;t look like leftovers from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operation_Fortitude\">Operation Fortitude<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My review copy of Combat Mission: Shock Force arrived yesterday, and, of course, I had to install it immediately. Naturally, it arrived without a paper manual, but I have a nice big PDF to print out once the rage subsides. Thanks Paradox! It&#8217;s really a pretty game, even though there&#8217;s a lot of desert terrain. [&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":[64],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-be","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696"}],"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=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}