{"id":823,"date":"2007-12-31T11:50:08","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T15:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/12\/31\/moments-in-games-journalism\/"},"modified":"2007-12-31T15:36:32","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T19:36:32","slug":"moments-in-games-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/12\/31\/moments-in-games-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Moments in Games Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/ds.ign.com\/articles\/836\/836662p1.html\">Jack DeVries&#8217;s IGN review of <em>Panzer Tactics<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The German&#8217;s Axis Campaign is the easy mode, the Soviet Campaign is moderate, and the Western Allied Campaign is difficult. It&#8217;s an interesting choice to make the easy mode, and the tutorial, star the Nazis. What&#8217;s also interesting is that the developer did not opt for a politically correct, neutral portrayal. The German army is definitely evil, as shown by the contemptuous and snarky comments of fellow officers, especially compared to the more righteous, heroic comments from the other armies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I had no idea that political correctness meant accepting the Wehrmacht as a morally neutral actor; in fact I think you are more likely to find traditionalist extolling the legend of the honorable German Army than you are a diversity advocate.<\/p>\n<p>And no matter what you may have learned from Bioware, snarky is not the same as evil.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/davelong.wordpress.com\/\">Dave Long<\/a> for pointing out this review, though for other reasons.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Jack DeVries&#8217;s IGN review of Panzer Tactics: The German&#8217;s Axis Campaign is the easy mode, the Soviet Campaign is moderate, and the Western Allied Campaign is difficult. It&#8217;s an interesting choice to make the easy mode, and the tutorial, star the Nazis. What&#8217;s also interesting is that the developer did not opt for a [&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":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-dh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823"}],"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=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}