{"id":714,"date":"2007-07-24T15:28:26","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T19:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/07\/24\/five-out-of-five-but\/"},"modified":"2007-12-17T14:19:58","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T18:19:58","slug":"five-out-of-five-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/07\/24\/five-out-of-five-but\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Out of Five But…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fellow Civ Fanatic Tom Chick’s review of Beyond the Sword<\/em> is up at Yahoo Games<\/a>. It gets top marks even though he agrees with me that the espionage stuff is “a mess” and corporations are “a crap shoot.” (I disagree that all the new naval stuff makes the sea matter; in my opinion, it’s still two-thirds of the earth covered with Who Gives A Damn.)<\/p>\n

This review, probably more than any in recent memory, underlines the difference between a top score and a perfect game. Chick can’t recommend Beyond the Sword<\/em> more highly, in spite of his many criticisms. This is far from a perfect expansion.<\/p>\n

But Final Frontier, the Rhye’s mod and it being more Civ 4 are enough for him. Can’t say that I object too strongly.<\/p>\n

I, of course, can’t review BtS in any real way because of my tainted love<\/a>. I will have more comments next week, many in response to the inevitable flurry of reviews. Just because I can’t review it without being completely in the clear from accusations of teh bias doesn’t mean that I can’t reply to other people’s comments.<\/p>\n

For now, the espionage is just too annoying for me to give it top marks, but people who miss the scenarios are missing some truly wonderful game moments. (I just started the Future War scenario, which has four super-states squabbling over the Earth with biological weapons, arcologies, and mechs.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fellow Civ Fanatic Tom Chick’s review of Beyond the Sword is up at Yahoo Games. It gets top marks even though he agrees with me that the espionage stuff is “a mess” and corporations are “a crap shoot.” (I disagree that all the new naval stuff makes the sea matter; in my opinion, it’s still […]<\/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":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-bw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714"}],"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=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}