{"id":9022,"date":"2011-09-13T11:59:52","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T18:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=9022"},"modified":"2011-09-13T11:59:52","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T18:59:52","slug":"trenched-to-get-closer-to-being-as-good-as-it-should-have-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/09\/13\/trenched-to-get-closer-to-being-as-good-as-it-should-have-been\/","title":{"rendered":"Trenched to get closer to being as good as it should have been"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"9022\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Trenched_DLC.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Trenched_DLC.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Trenched_DLC\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9023\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Double Fine&#8217;s lively, charming, and polished tower defense\/action game, Trenched, should be every bit as good as Signal Studio&#8217;s lively, charming, and polished tower defense\/action game, Toy Soldiers: Cold War.  But it&#8217;s not.  And the simple reason is that there are too few ways to play Trenched.  There is no survival mode.  There is no head-to-head option.  There are no minigames.  There are no set-ups for different types of games.  There are no challenges.  All the great things that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamepro.com\/article\/reviews\/222043\/review-toy-soldiers-cold-war-xbla\/\">give Toy Soldiers: Cold War such incredibly long legs<\/a> should be in Trenched, but they aren&#8217;t.  It&#8217;s no longer enough to just make a good game.  You have to give us different cool ways to experience that game.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, Trenched is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xblafans.com\/trenched-to-become-iron-brigade-everywhere-dlc-to-come-25910.html\">getting a survival mode<\/a> at some point in the future.  It&#8217;s only one map, but at least it&#8217;s one step closer to making Trenched as good as it should have been.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, also, it&#8217;s not going to be called Trenched any more because of a legal brouhaha with some Europeans who have something called Trench.  So later this month, Trenched will forever after be known as Iron Brigade, which sounds like something turn-based and with hexes.<\/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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trenched to get closer to being as good as it should have been - 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\/09\/13\/trenched-to-get-closer-to-being-as-good-as-it-should-have-been\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trenched to get closer to being as good as it should have been - 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