{"id":918,"date":"2007-06-13T07:43:39","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T11:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/06\/13\/a-pleasant-surprise-psms-f1ce-review\/"},"modified":"2007-06-13T07:44:25","modified_gmt":"2007-06-13T11:44:25","slug":"a-pleasant-surprise-psms-f1ce-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/06\/13\/a-pleasant-surprise-psms-f1ce-review\/","title":{"rendered":"A pleasant surprise (PSM&#8217;s F1CE review)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while, out of the blue, an unexpected pleasant surprise comes along that is reason to smile.  I have been catching up on a black log of reading material, and last night I found PSM\u2019s F1CE review:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe core racing is F1 at its finest, but Sony has built in enough tweakability that, with a little practice, anyone can pick it up and play\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere\u2019s the deal \u2013 Formula One will challenge you.  It will punish you for the most innocent of mistakes and spit you into last place to try again, but it\u2019s utterly addicting\u2026\u201d [PSM May 2007, p.72]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The reviewer gave the game an 8.0 rating.  It is refreshing to see a mainstream publication get \u201cit\u201d when it comes to reviewing this type of game.  Kudos to PSM.<\/p>\n<p>Before I head off to work, two house keeping items are in order.  First, sue me.  PSM is a guilt pleasure as is EGM.  Actually I think my PSM subscription has expired, but I enjoy flipping through the pages while sitting on the throne.  I am not sure why I am defending myself, but I only subscribe to these things when I can get a really low rate (say under $10).  There; I feel better.  Second, I really do not depend on these reviews to make my game purchase decisions.  While I do find them interesting, sometimes even entertaining, I have typically already made a decision long before I read the review.  F1CE is a perfect example.<\/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>Every once in a while, out of the blue, an unexpected pleasant surprise comes along that is reason to smile. I have been catching up on a black log of reading material, and last night I found PSM\u2019s F1CE review: \u201cThe core racing is F1 at its finest, but Sony has built in enough tweakability &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/06\/13\/a-pleasant-surprise-psms-f1ce-review\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A pleasant surprise (PSM&#8217;s F1CE review)<\/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-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","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=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}