{"id":833,"date":"2009-03-15T12:09:24","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T11:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=833"},"modified":"2010-03-29T09:25:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T08:25:30","slug":"halo-wars-demo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/halo-wars-demo\/","title":{"rendered":"Halo Wars Demo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"red\">XBox360<\/font>,<font color=\"orange\">RTS<\/font>,<font color=\"green\">4\/10<\/font> &#8211; <u>February 2009<\/u><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding:10px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/halowars.jpg?resize=150%2C84&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"halowars\" title=\"halowars\" width=\"150\" height=\"84\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-896\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<td>\nIt has been proved, RTS on a console just isn&#8217;t possible. You can put as much effort and talent into making it as possible but a mouse is a fundamental requirement of a RTS.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Playing this demo made me doubt whether releasing a demo is always financially advantageous for the game companies? In this case, I would have certainly bought the game if I hadn&#8217;t been able to play the demo. I did have to buy a subscription to XBox live gold to download the demo so it wasn&#8217;t a total loss for Microsoft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>XBox360,RTS,4\/10 &#8211; February 2009 It has been proved, RTS on a console just isn&#8217;t possible. You can put as much effort and talent into making it as possible but a mouse is a fundamental requirement of a RTS. Playing this demo made me doubt whether releasing a demo is always financially advantageous for the game [&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":[29,12,30],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-review","tag-computergame","tag-halo","tag-microsoft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","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=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1618,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions\/1618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}