{"id":335,"date":"2009-06-01T08:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/mass-effect-revelation-impressions\/"},"modified":"2009-06-01T08:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T15:26:00","slug":"mass-effect-revelation-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/mass-effect-revelation-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass Effect: Revelation Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/media.teamxbox.com\/dailyposts\/masseffect_revelation.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 304px; height: 500px;\" src=\"http:\/\/media.teamxbox.com\/dailyposts\/masseffect_revelation.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I finally got around to reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/034549816X?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jighcsranrev-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=034549816X\">Mass Effect: Revelation<\/a> last week. With all the potential Mass Effect 2 news coming this week with E3 I decided I should be ready. The book is a prequel to the game and I&#8217;m actually glad I read it after completing Mass Effect.  There are not any huge spoilers in the book but there is a lot of foreshadowing that would have made the big reveals in the game less fun for me. Overall, I enjoyed the book but it could have used a little more action in it.  Still, it has me pumped for reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0345498526?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jighcsranrev-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0345498526\">Mass Effect: Ascension<\/a> and playing Mass Effect 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got around to reading Mass Effect: Revelation last week. With all the potential Mass Effect 2 news coming this week with E3 I decided I should be ready. The book is a prequel to the game and I&#8217;m actually glad I read it after completing Mass Effect. There are not any huge spoilers [&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":[],"tags":[89,7,5],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-book","tag-review","tag-video-game"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","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=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}