{"id":811,"date":"2007-12-04T10:56:54","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T14:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/12\/04\/1ups-year-end-shortlist\/"},"modified":"2007-12-04T10:56:54","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T14:56:54","slug":"1ups-year-end-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/12\/04\/1ups-year-end-shortlist\/","title":{"rendered":"1up&#8217;s Year End Shortlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1up.com\">The 1up network<\/a> has announced its nominees for Games of the Year. You can find a handy flash-free list over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/php-bin\/news_index.php?story=16478\">Gamasutra<\/a>. Readers will have till the end of the year to vote on their favorites, and winners will be announced in February.<\/p>\n<p>The strategy nominees are:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>World in Conflict<\/strong><\/em> (PC; Sierra)<br \/>\n<em><strong>Overlord<\/strong><\/em> (360; Codemasters)<br \/>\n<em>Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts<\/em> (PC; THQ)<br \/>\n<em><strong>Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword<\/strong><\/em> (PC; 2K Games)<br \/>\n<em><strong>Medieval II: Total War\u00e2\u20ac\u201dKingdoms<\/strong><\/em> (PC; Sega)<br \/>\n<em>Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn<\/em> (Wii; Nintendo)<br \/>\n<em><strong>Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties<\/strong><\/em> (PC; Microsoft)<br \/>\n<em>The Eye of Judgement<\/em> (PS3; Sony)<br \/>\n<em>Worms: Open Warfare 2<\/em> (DS, PSP; THQ)<br \/>\n<em><strong>Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar<\/strong><\/em> (PC; Stardock)<br \/>\n<em>Glory Days 2<\/em> (DS; Eidos)<br \/>\n<em><strong>Europa Universalis III<\/strong><\/em> (PC; Paradox Interactive)<br \/>\n<em><strong>Supreme Commander<\/strong><\/em> (PC; THQ)<br \/>\n<em>Universe at War: Earth Assault<\/em> (PC; Sega)<br \/>\n<em><strong>Command &#038; Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars<\/strong><\/em> (PC, 360; EA)<br \/>\n<em>Front Mission<\/em> (DS; Square Enix)<\/p>\n<p>Titles in bold are games I&#8217;ve played final versions of.<\/p>\n<p>Note the dominance of franchises and expansions? That alone keeps me from calling this a great year for AAA strategy even though there are some really great games on that list.<\/p>\n<p>Note the prevalence of consoles? If you miss turn based strategy, that&#8217;s the place to be. Interesting that <em>Overlord<\/em> is billed as a strategy game and not an action\/puzzle game.<\/p>\n<p><em>World in Conflict<\/em> also gets nominations as best multiplayer game and overall Game of the Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1up network has announced its nominees for Games of the Year. You can find a handy flash-free list over at Gamasutra. Readers will have till the end of the year to vote on their favorites, and winners will be announced in February. The strategy nominees are: World in Conflict (PC; Sierra) Overlord (360; Codemasters) [&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":[23],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-d5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811"}],"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=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}