{"id":7152,"date":"2011-06-03T09:07:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T16:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=7152"},"modified":"2011-06-02T18:19:34","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T01:19:34","slug":"what-if-we-gave-elemental-a-mulligan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/06\/03\/what-if-we-gave-elemental-a-mulligan\/","title":{"rendered":"What if we gave Elemental a mulligan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"7152\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Elemental_re-review.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Elemental_re-review.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Elemental_re-review\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7153\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>GamePro asked me to revisit Elemental&#8217;s latest overhaul.  Imagine if the game had just come out:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Elemental, which didn&#8217;t come out last August in a shameful state, is the new fantasy strategy game from Stardock, still an indie darling among strategy gamers. You might be inclined to think of it as Galactic Civilization with elves, except that there aren&#8217;t really any elves in Elemental. And although they share a lot of gameplay DNA, Elemental has some unique selling points that work as advertised, which might not have been the case if it had been released last year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the alternate history re-review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamepro.com\/article\/features\/219880\/a-later-look-at-elemental-war-of-magic\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What if we gave Elemental a mulligan?  - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/06\/03\/what-if-we-gave-elemental-a-mulligan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What if we gave Elemental a mulligan? 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