{"id":353,"date":"2007-08-21T14:20:22","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T18:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp\/2007\/08\/21\/scent-of-authenticity\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T21:33:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T21:33:19","slug":"scent-of-authenticity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/2007\/08\/21\/scent-of-authenticity\/","title":{"rendered":"Scent of Authenticity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dpad.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/joe80x80.jpg?w=1080\" alt=\"Joe\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" \/>If Bioshock lives up to its hype (which from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/us\/xbox360\/game\/reviews\/article.jsp?releaseId=20060426172349312080&amp;articleId=2007081511272150653077&amp;sectionId=1000\" target=\"_blank\">early<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/xbox360.ign.com\/articles\/813\/813214p1.html\" target=\"_blank\">reviews<\/a> it looks like it has), its name could soon carry the cachet of another soon-to-be-released <a href=\"http:\/\/xbox360.ign.com\/objects\/734\/734817.html\" target=\"_blank\">shooter<\/a>. It&#8217;s brilliant timing by 2K, giving us about a month to really experience everything Bioshock has to offer before our attention inevitably turns to Master Chiefs and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/xbox360\/puzzle\/rockband\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">plastic Fenders<\/a>. I grabbed my copy today (last one in the store!) and will be diving into the world of Rapture soon. It will probably be the weekend before I can spend any quality time with it, but chances are I&#8217;ll be able to sneak in a few minutes here and there before then. I&#8217;ll let you know how it goes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">-JBE<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">joe at dpad dot ca<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Bioshock lives up to its hype (which from early reviews it looks like it has), its name could soon carry the cachet of another soon-to-be-released shooter. It&#8217;s brilliant timing by 2K, giving us about a month to really experience everything Bioshock has to offer before our attention inevitably turns &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link bs-book_btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/2007\/08\/21\/scent-of-authenticity\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/2007-08-21.png?fit=700%2C310&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":773,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}