{"id":56957,"date":"2013-08-02T11:40:51","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T09:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=56957"},"modified":"2013-08-02T11:42:25","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T09:42:25","slug":"china-launches-glorious-mission-online-to-celebrate-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/56957-china-launches-glorious-mission-online-to-celebrate-military","title":{"rendered":"China launches Glorious Mission Online to celebrate military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The People&#8217;s Liberation Army (PLA) of China has released a video game to commemorate the founding of the group, and it\u2019s not a tennis game.<\/p>\n<p>The game is called Glorious Mission Online and is developed by Giant Interactive Group.<\/p>\n<p>The game allows players to don the PLA uniform and defend China&#8217;s sovereign territories in the East China Sea against the Japanese.<\/p>\n<p>Glorious Mission Online takes the form of a Counter-Strike-esque FPS, allowing players to engage in ground battles, as well as take control of mounted and vehicle weapons to fight off the enemy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The military was 100 percent behind this game,&#8221; said Giant Interactive. &#8220;Rather than playing the same foreign games like Call of Duty and being American Marines shooting Russians or whatnot, Chinese can actually play as Chinese soldiers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Glorious Mission Online can be downloaded here: http:\/\/www.plagame.cn\/\/channel\/downloadol\/index.html<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VnzBmjF2d4w\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/08\/01\/us-china-game-idUSBRE9700OS20130801\">Reuters<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/56946-gaming-on-adsl-just-got-a-little-more-costly.html\">Gaming on ADSL just got a little more costly<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/56935-sa-retailer-launches-build-a-bundle-console-special.html\">SA retailer launches \u201cbuild-a-bundle\u201d console special<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/56923-star-wars-battlefront-release-window-revealed.html\">Star Wars: Battlefront release window revealed<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/56916-xcom-enemy-within-confirmed.html\">XCOM: Enemy Within confirmed<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese FPS celebrates the Chinese military<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":56958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,1911,10243,2202,10910,10912,10911,10913],"class_list":["post-56957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-china","tag-chinese-game","tag-fps","tag-glorious-mission-online","tag-peoples-liberation-army","tag-pla","tag-shooter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56959,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56957\/revisions\/56959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}