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What do you think of it? From the creators of Uplink... "It's Global Thermonuclear War, and nobody wins. But maybe - just maybe - you can lose the least."
It's for Mac, Windows and Linux
DEFCON is a real-time strategy game created by independent British game developer Introversion Software, developers of Darwinia. The gameplay is reminiscent of the "big boards" that visually represented thermonuclear war in the films Dr. Strangelove, Fail-Safe, and WarGames.
It has some good reviews!
IGN gives it a score of 8.5. User reviews average out to 8.6.
Inspired by the 1983 cult classic film, Wargames, DEFCON superblyevokes the tension, paranoia and suspicion of the Cold War era, playingon the fascinating aspects of psychological gameplay that occur duringstrategic nuclear warfare.
SteamPowered.com wrote:
You play a General hidden deepwithin an underground bunker. Your mission is to successfullyexterminate your enemy's civilian population whilst saving your own.Points are awarded or lost depending on both the efficacy andthoroughness of your nuclear vendetta and the number of your owncivilian deaths. In order to win you must wipe out the enemy populationand simultaneously disable the enemy's ability to retaliate againstyou. This is an extremely difficult task since launching an attack onthe enemy exposes the positions of your own Ground Silos, Subs andBombers the moment they launch nuclear weapons, making you extremelyvulnerable and exposed to a crushing counter-attack. Desperateattempts must be made to form fast, tactical alliances, alliances thatmay at any moment break-down to become the treacherous and most deadlyof betrayals. Everyone looks to each other in a state of nervoussuspense and paranoid accusation. In all-out nuclear Armageddon,everybody dies, everybody loses, you just have to make sure you losethe least!
Wikipedia wrote:
The game has been available by download since September through Introversion's webstore and Steam. In the UK this game will hit high street shelves on 15th June and for a limited period only will include the developer's first game Uplink. On April 5, 2007, U.S. publisher Encore announced they will be publishing the game in the United States, and have ordered an initial 50,000 copies of the game for retail.
That, in a nutshell, is DEFCON,the explosive new strategy game from Introversion - the developerbehind the critically-adored Darwinia and lesser-known, but equallybrilliant, Uplink. The aim of the game is simple: cause massdestruction on a global scale by launching nuclear attacks on rivalsuperpowers while, at the same time, protecting your own borders fromenemy strikes. Refreshingly, it's as easy to play as it is to explain,with many of the elements that tend to overcomplicate strategy games -such as resource management - stripped away to shift focus onto killingevery last living, breathing person on the planet.
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