{"id":322,"date":"2009-04-01T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/nextwar-the-quest-for-earth-quick-impressions\/"},"modified":"2009-08-21T09:24:05","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T16:24:05","slug":"nextwar-the-quest-for-earth-quick-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/nextwar-the-quest-for-earth-quick-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"NextWar: The Quest for Earth Quick Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a chance today to try out the XNA Community Game <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xblaratings.com\/component\/content\/article\/68-strategy-a-simulation\/652-nextwar-the-quest-for-earth\">NextWar: The Quest for Earth<\/a>.  It is a tower defense style game which I find highly addicting.  It has a unique graphical style that I&#8217;m not sure I like yet, but the overall mechanics work great. If you&#8217;re into Tower Defense games I would recommend checking it out. I&#8217;m quickly getting addicted because there is a nice variety in tower types and each has an easy to remember upgrade path.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the trailer if you&#8217;re interested:<br \/>\n<object id=\"72uv9a4e\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"432\" height=\"364\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"c=v&amp;v=650da6b8-a6bd-4157-9b92-795d12483ff2&amp;ifs=true&amp;fr=shared&amp;mkt=en-US\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/images.video.msn.com\/flash\/soapbox1_1.swf\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object>&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href=&#8221;http:\/\/video.msn.com\/?mkt=en-US&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:650da6b8-a6bd-4157-9b92-795d12483ff2&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;showPlaylist=true&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;from=shared&#8221; target=&#8221;_new&#8221; title=&#8221;NextWar: The Quest for Earth&#8221;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Video: NextWar: The Quest for Earth&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;\/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a chance today to try out the XNA Community Game NextWar: The Quest for Earth. It is a tower defense style game which I find highly addicting. It has a unique graphical style that I&#8217;m not sure I like yet, but the overall mechanics work great. If you&#8217;re into Tower Defense games I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,90],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox-360","category-xbox-live-indie-games","tag-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}