{"id":7317,"date":"2013-02-12T20:04:01","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T20:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=7317"},"modified":"2013-02-12T20:04:01","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T20:04:01","slug":"forget-aliens-colonial-marines-there-is-only-one-true-aliens-video-game-total-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/02\/forget-aliens-colonial-marines-there-is-only-one-true-aliens-video-game-total-conversion\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget Aliens: Colonial Marines, there is only one true Aliens video game&#8230; Total Conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of fury over this review of the long-awaited &#8216;Aliens: Colonial Marines&#8217; as <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5983463\/aliens-colonial-marines-the-kotaku-review\">the majority of reviews come in at the 40% mark<\/a>, with a few outliers in the mainstream gaming press giving the title around 90% (and publications<a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmnow.com\/articles\/reviews\/egm-review-aliens-colonial-marines\/\"> like EGM Now hosting an advert <\/a>for the game &#8216;Aliens: Colonial Marines&#8217; behind a glowing review of &#8216;Aliens: Colonial Marines&#8217;), but once again I come back to a simple rule of thumb about any game developed around the &#8216;Aliens&#8217; franchise.<\/p>\n<p>There is no finer first person gaming experience than <a href=\"http:\/\/doom.wikia.com\/wiki\/Aliens_TC\">Aliens:TC<\/a>, the total conversion Doom level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of fury over this review of the long-awaited &#8216;Aliens: Colonial Marines&#8217; as the majority of reviews come in at the 40% mark, with a few outliers in the mainstream gaming press giving the title around 90% (and publications like EGM Now hosting an advert for the game &#8216;Aliens: Colonial Marines&#8217; behind a glowing review of &#8216;Aliens: Colonial Marines&#8217;), but once again I come back to a simple rule of thumb about any game developed around the &#8216;Aliens&#8217; franchise. There is no finer first person gaming experience than Aliens:TC, the total conversion Doom level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[23,25,576],"tags":[4189,4190,4186,2403,4188,282,445,4187],"class_list":["post-7317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-link-log","category-mainstream-media","tag-advertising-influence","tag-aliens-colonial-marines-egm-now","tag-aliens-tc","tag-doom","tag-editorial-control","tag-policy","tag-review","tag-wad","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1U1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}