In order to win you must wipe out the enemy population and simultaneously disable the enemy's ability to retaliate against you.

Points are awarded or lost depending on both the efficacy and thoroughness of your nuclear vendetta and the number of your own civilian deaths. Your mission is to successfully exterminate your enemy's civilian population whilst saving your own. You play a General hidden deep within an underground bunker. Co op missions are great fun.Inspired by the 1983 cult classic film, Wargames, DEFCON superbly evokes the tension, paranoia and suspicion of the Cold War era, playing on the fascinating aspects of psychological gameplay that occur during strategic nuclear warfare. If anyone wants to play me, just search my profile. It's very close to being the released version. Doesn't have to be the full game, even the demo is fantastic. It's a perfect balance of gfx and substance, plus the soundtrack really suits the gameplay. The gaming experience more than makes up for the lack of good gfx. It's one of those rare games that doesn't have peak graphics. Don't quote me on this but I remember something along the lines of It was the first game to use 'photo realistic gfx' with actors.īut the GFX were still piss poor.

Games were just right back in the 90's, for the most part.Īnyone remember Road Rash/Road Rash 2 on the Sega megadrive/Genesis, Desert Strike, Jungle Strike, Sonic the hedgehog, Alien 3 (the game was even better than the film)Streets Of Rage 1, 2 and 3.

A game is either good, or it isn't and graphics will never make up for a bad game. It just requires the use of a winning formula from a time when games had to be good because they couldn't fall back on 'But.the graphics are astounding' There is no 'but'. Goes to show how a game doesn't have to have outstanding gfx etc to captivate you. When I first got the demo waaaay back when it came out, it was so addictive.

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