{"id":1693,"date":"2009-01-04T14:52:04","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T20:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=1693"},"modified":"2009-01-04T14:52:04","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T20:52:04","slug":"what-they-plays-games-of-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/04\/what-they-plays-games-of-08\/","title":{"rendered":"What They Play&#8217;s Games of &#8217;08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What were the best games of 2008? Well, I got the chance to contribute to the What They Play roundup because I&#8217;m a columnist.  My picks? OVERALL: Left 4 Dead  FAMILY: Boom Blox. But what did the other experts over there pick? Lots of stuff. Here&#8217;s the article starting with founder John Davison and then moving on to me! Click it. Come back. Or, click inside and see all the picks and talk about &#8217;em.\u00a0 I know I will!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>GamerDad: We all remember that I picked Boom Blox for my Family Game and I picked the team-play terrorfest, Left for Dead.I know, I know, it&#8217;s an M-rated <em>zombie<\/em> game filled with mayhem, monsters, blood, bad language and it&#8217;s also an unrelenting game featuring wall-to-wall shooting, bleeding, and killing. Not great for the kids, right? Well, yeah, right \u2013 exactly! But it could be. What most critics seem to miss about Left 4 Dead is that if you look beyond the blood, guts, gore, bullets and claws you&#8217;ll find the finest example of co-operative gaming this side of Rock Band 2.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; padding-bottom: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"grey_border\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whattheyplay.com\/media\/images\/features\/staff-picks-2008-208\/spotart\/l4dhospital01apartment0226+tga-screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"Staff Picks 2008\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"pad\"><strong>Family Game of the Year<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whattheyplay.com\/products\/boom-blox-for-wii\/\">Boom Blox<\/a><br \/>\nNot because it&#8217;s the best game of the year, it&#8217;s not \u2013 but Boom Blox is the game that has gotten the most play in the shortest amount of time at the Gamerdad household. Every guest plays. Every guest loves it. Every guest has a good chance of winning. And it&#8217;s playable by folks from almost every age range.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; padding-bottom: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"grey_border\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whattheyplay.com\/media\/images\/features\/staff-picks-2008-208\/spotart\/941974_20080430_screen004-screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"Staff Picks 2008\" width=\"500\" height=\"275\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What were the best games of 2008? Well, I got the chance to contribute to the What They Play roundup because I&#8217;m a columnist. My picks? OVERALL: Left 4 Dead FAMILY: Boom Blox. But what did the other experts over there pick? Lots of stuff. Here&#8217;s the article starting with founder John Davison and then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gamerdad-press","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}