PlayStation

Defcon 5

Overall, this has less action than Doom or Space Hulk, but more exploration and strategy as well as a better storyline. If you're not expecting a shoot-fest, you'll be satisfied, especially if you like your games with a plot.

Defcon 5 is tough, slow and epic. If you're up to a Herculean strategy challenge, Defcon is definitely for you.

What really pushes this title beyond the shooter mindset are the little things, those minute details that add believability to a game and help you achieve immersion in the game's world. Things like the way killing enemies has an adverse effect on the air quality in whatever room you're in, or the way the invasion evolves slowly over time. All of this contributes to a pretty complex strategy. Worth checking out.

Fortunately, the control is okay and shooting the various aliens and creatures you run into are pretty cool. Sometimes when you kill enemies, they'll emit harmful gasses and change the air quality of the room. This proves to be pretty strategic because you have to think about how you have to kill certain enemies. But you have to take everything else into consideration while playing this game. You have to do the console interactions and spending half the time being lost on the spaceship is just really frustrating and these two things are the reason Defcon 5 isn't appealing. The developers were trying to do something different, but it just doesn't work here.