{"id":893,"date":"2008-03-15T14:43:04","date_gmt":"2008-03-15T18:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/03\/15\/civilization-revolution-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-03-15T14:43:04","modified_gmt":"2008-03-15T18:43:04","slug":"civilization-revolution-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/03\/15\/civilization-revolution-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Civilization Revolution Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The previews for the upcoming console version of Civilization are trickling in, available at all the usual places. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=94346\">I&#8217;ll link you to Alec Meer&#8217;s over at Eurogamer<\/a> because, first, it&#8217;s the usual high quality of writing you get at that place, and, second, it answers some important questions about what&#8217;s the same and what&#8217;s different from the latest PC version of Civ.<\/p>\n<p>The punchline?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you&#8217;re a long-term Civ player thinking this all sounds like a terrible sacrifice, you&#8217;re not thinking bigger-picture, about how that crafts a faster game full of frequent thrills and new toys, not one that requires 40 turns and half an hour before you can make a bloke ride a horse. It&#8217;s one much more suited to a couple of hours of sofa play than simply porting Civ 4&#8217;s hunched-over, marathon sessions to a social circumstance they just weren&#8217;t made for. This is, after all, an alternative to, not a replacement for, Civ 4.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The previews for the upcoming console version of Civilization are trickling in, available at all the usual places. I&#8217;ll link you to Alec Meer&#8217;s over at Eurogamer because, first, it&#8217;s the usual high quality of writing you get at that place, and, second, it answers some important questions about what&#8217;s the same and what&#8217;s different [&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":[8,2],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-ep","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893"}],"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=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}