{"id":794,"date":"2007-10-29T10:39:39","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T14:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/29\/panzer-tactics-and-the-ds\/"},"modified":"2007-10-29T11:40:06","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T15:40:06","slug":"panzer-tactics-and-the-ds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/29\/panzer-tactics-and-the-ds\/","title":{"rendered":"Panzer Tactics and the DS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My brief preview of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FAtlus-PT-00070-2-Panzer-Tactics%2Fdp%2FB000TU4M4Q%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dvideogames%26qid%3D1193665831%26sr%3D8-1&#038;tag=flaofste-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">Panzer Tactics<\/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> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gameshark.com\/previews\/3282\/Panzer-Tactics-DS-Preview.htm\">up at Gameshark<\/a>. I never quite know what to write in previews, and I&#8217;m not sure this one is any exception.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the parallels to ye olde <em>Panzer General<\/em> are obvious and not original with me. The tiny tanks take some getting used to, but it will probably fit in well with the rest of the titles for Nintendo&#8217;s small machine. The handheld console has already built up an impressive strategy line-up.<\/p>\n<p><em>Worms<\/em>, <em>Age of Empires<\/em>, <em>SimCity<\/em>, <em>Settlers<\/em>&#8230;. All available on the DS. (<em>SimCity<\/em>, by the way, is nearly impossible to play in my experience. Too little screen real estate to see your lakeside real estate and my roads never draw straight.) Plus <em>Advance Wars<\/em> has made its way from the GameBoy. A <em>Warhammer 40K<\/em> game is on the way. And soon, reportedly, <em>Civilization: Revolution<\/em> will make the DS the handheld platform of choice for strategy gamers.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side of the phony war, the PSP has a few strategy titles. <em>Worms<\/em> and <em>Warhammer<\/em>, again.  Strategy RPGs like <em>Final Fantasy Tactics<\/em> and <em>D&#038;D Tactics<\/em>. (Can we just drop &#8220;Tactics&#8221; as a subtitle, guys? Thanks.) But beyond these RPG games, there&#8217;s not a lot of unique strategy stuff.<\/p>\n<p>My DS is new, so I don&#8217;t have a lot of games to go with it at the moment. Any recommendations would be appreciated. Will <em>Settlers<\/em> make me lose my eyesight from the strain?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My brief preview of Panzer Tactics is up at Gameshark. I never quite know what to write in previews, and I&#8217;m not sure this one is any exception. Anyway, the parallels to ye olde Panzer General are obvious and not original with me. The tiny tanks take some getting used to, but it will probably [&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":[74,108,2],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-cO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794"}],"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=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}