{"id":130,"date":"2005-05-01T00:05:57","date_gmt":"2005-04-30T23:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=130"},"modified":"2007-01-07T00:07:50","modified_gmt":"2007-01-06T23:07:50","slug":"magic-the-gathering-battlegrounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/05\/magic-the-gathering-battlegrounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic the Gathering: Battlegrounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"red\">XBox<\/font>,<font color=\"orange\">Strategy Combat<\/font>,<font color=\"green\">7\/10<\/font> &#8211; <u>April 2005<\/u><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/GameReviewImages\/magicBattlegrounds.jpg?w=200&#038;ssl=1\" ><\/img><\/td>\n<td>\n<p>\nThink pokemon meets street fighter. This is strategy combat where it&#8217;s tactics and planning that win a battle rather than button mashing. Collect mana orbs, cast creature spells, magic spells, enhancement spells; try to do all of this and still evade your opponent&#8217;s attacks.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>I got to the pen-ultimate level and found it just too hard. The single player mode is just a long tutorial really but I&#8217;ve never felt good enough to try battleing online players (I imagine it&#8217;d be awesome). It&#8217;s a bit of a cult game but my girlfriends little brother and I love quoting Magic monsters at each other, we take it in turn to call out &#8220;Goblin sky ranger&#8221;, &#8220;Giant Growth&#8221;, &#8220;Magma Giant&#8221;, &#8220;Rushwood Elemental&#8221;, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>XBox,Strategy Combat,7\/10 &#8211; April 2005 Think pokemon meets street fighter. This is strategy combat where it&#8217;s tactics and planning that win a battle rather than button mashing. Collect mana orbs, cast creature spells, magic spells, enhancement spells; try to do all of this and still evade your opponent&#8217;s attacks. I got to the pen-ultimate level [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}