{"id":998,"date":"2008-07-15T17:33:18","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T21:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/07\/15\/disciples-iii-and-red-alert\/"},"modified":"2008-07-15T17:33:18","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T21:33:18","slug":"disciples-iii-and-red-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/07\/15\/disciples-iii-and-red-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Disciples III and Red Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw two strategy games today, <em>Disciples III<\/em> from Akella and <em>Command and Conquer 3: Red Alert<\/em> from EA. And I think I&#8217;m equally interested in both.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m not a huge Disciples fan, so I&#8217;m sure a lot of this had to do with the contrast between the game and the environment it was shown in. EA is on one end of the show floor and Akella is in the exact opposite corner. So one side is all noise and basketball and Xbox 360s overheating. Akella&#8217;s technical glitch just meant that the sales rep showed me the game on his laptop &#8211; a small presentation befitting their small stature.<\/p>\n<p>But Disciples III is doing something really neat &#8211; putting a hex based wargame into the series instead of the traditional grid system. It looks great in 3D, and they&#8217;ve done some neat stuff with the information displays.<\/p>\n<p>Red Alert looks good, too. Don&#8217;t get wrong. Lots of color and things going boom. And it&#8217;s not like E3 is the zoo that it apparently used to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw two strategy games today, Disciples III from Akella and Command and Conquer 3: Red Alert from EA. And I think I&#8217;m equally interested in both. Now I&#8217;m not a huge Disciples fan, so I&#8217;m sure a lot of this had to do with the contrast between the game and the environment it was [&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":[122,30,40],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-g6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998"}],"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=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}