{"id":1268,"date":"2008-08-03T12:10:56","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T16:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/08\/03\/1942-joint-strike-ps3-brief-impressions\/"},"modified":"2008-08-03T12:10:56","modified_gmt":"2008-08-03T16:10:56","slug":"1942-joint-strike-ps3-brief-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/08\/03\/1942-joint-strike-ps3-brief-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"1942: Joint Strike (PS3) Brief Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a while since I last played a 1942 game.  I am not really what you would call a fan of the series, but many moons ago, I did enjoy previous versions of game in the 194x series.  Picking up the latest version from the PlayStation Store a few weeks ago for $9.99 was really an impulse purchase.<\/p>\n<p>The graphics are 2D on top of a 3D backdrop, fairly standard stuff for a 2D shooter pushed forward into this current generation of high powered graphics.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cgblog\/images\/videogames\/ps3\/miscgames\/1942_jointstrike_01.jpg\" alt=\"1942: Joint Strike\"\/><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Too old to duck and dodge all this crap \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>I will get straight point.  I am too old for this sort of frantic, pattern based shooter.  More precisely, I just do not have the skills to progress very far in the game, even on the easiest level.  I think my speed is more along the lines of the bosses in <em>Super Stardust HD<\/em> is about my pace.<\/p>\n<p>I am not going to say that the game is bad; it\u2019s probably very good for fans of the series (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/games\/platforms\/ps3\/1942jointstrike\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/games\/platforms\/ps3\/1942jointstrike', 'metacritic');\" target=\"new\">metacritic<\/a> score of 68).  Purchasing a so-so game (from my perspective) exposes one of the things I do not like about digital distribution.  I have no opportunity to recoup a few dollars of my $9.99 purchase.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a while since I last played a 1942 game. I am not really what you would call a fan of the series, but many moons ago, I did enjoy previous versions of game in the 194x series. Picking up the latest version from the PlayStation Store a few weeks ago for $9.99 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/08\/03\/1942-joint-strike-ps3-brief-impressions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1942: Joint Strike (PS3) Brief Impressions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}