DEFCON

Description

The world is on the brink of Armageddon. A full-scale global thermonuclear war has broken out, and as a general in a bunker somewhere, you must direct your offensive and defensive systems to nuke your opponents. Nobody wins, but maybe you can lose the least. Everybody dies.

DEFCON is an online multiplayer strategy game, but it can also be played in a singleplayer mode. Players place units, such as missile silos, airbases and radar dishes, on their territorial maps, and the game counts down from DEFCON 5 to DEFCON 1, during which time the players are to make strategic choices to eliminate their opponents without losing too much themselves.

The gameplay is shown on a large world map and the action is represented by icons and lines reminiscent of the drawing style of their two previous games: Darwinia and Uplink.

Alternate Titles

• "DEFCON: Strategic Nuclear War" -- 2007 Budget Release
• "Defcon: Guerre Mondiale Thermonucléaire " -- French Title
• "DEFCON: Globalna Wojna Termonuklearna" -- Polish title
• "DEFCON: Everybody Dies" -- European Title

Part of the Following Group

• Technology: amBX

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User Reviews

A breathtaking anti-war game

Windows

Lumpi (143)

The Press Says

1UP	Windows	Oct 07, 2006	9 out of 10	90
2404.org PC Gaming	Windows	Oct 28, 2006	8.9 out of 10	89
Gameguru Mania	Windows	Oct 08, 2006	85 out of 100	85
GameSpot	Windows	Oct 10, 2006	8.1 out of 10	81
MacLife	Macintosh	Jul 31, 2007		80
Eurogamer.de	Windows	Oct 02, 2006	8 out of 10	80
Jeuxvideo.com	Windows	Feb 07, 2008	16 out of 20	80
GameStar (Germany)	Windows	Nov, 2006	75 out of 100	75
Inside Mac Games (IMG)	Macintosh	Jun 29, 2007	7 out of 10	70
ntsc-uk	Windows	Feb, 2007	6 out of 10	60

Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
When the Bomb Goes Off	1	Lumpi (143) May 07, 2009

Trivia

Defcon applies a bunch of casual sounds to heighten the psychological effect of dealing with a thermonuclear war. Among these, the background music stays very much in the background. However as the game approaches the Defcon 1 stage, the background music increases in both tempo and strength. During actual nuclear war, piano key strikes can be heard as nuclear warheads impact with cities.