Broderick stumbles across the system via modem (oh how far we have come!) and thinking it is a software company's latest game, he chooses to play Global Thermonuclear War. Starring Matthew Broderick as a baby-faced computer geek, the film centres around an advanced war simulation computer named Joshua. We doubt this game will encourage a new generation of Cold War zealots eager to drop The Bomb.Įverybody-diesIf these themes sound familiar, it is because Defcon is unashamedly inspired by the 1983 cult classic film, Wargames. Luckily, due to the dehumanised nature of the interface you don't really feel like you're actually killing people, so here's hoping Lawsuit Larry will leave this one alone. If Jack Thompson et al got upset about a few in-game drive-by shootings in GTA, one can only imagine his contempt for this level of genocide. You win the game by sheer bodycount: nuke the hapless millions inhabiting the world's major cities and annihilate entire continents. The basic premise of Defcon is as uncomplicated as can be. Bush, and the result is all-out global destruction in the most stylish 1980's manner possible.
Out go the board and dice and in comes one of the most unique, slick and stylish 2D interfaces you have ever seen. Replace Risk's soldiers with aeroplanes, the cavalry with submarines and the artillery with thermo-nuclear weapons and suddenly the game feels like it has swallowed an entire handful of ecstasy pills and, quite frankly, gone berserk.
Allow me to introduce Introversion Sofware's Defcon. However, in those glorious moments when you grip the dice in your sweaty palm, safe in the knowledge that you are the dominant force and the whole world's fate rests in your hands, the game produces a feeling that no video game has ever been able to replicate.
Sure, it can be a bit long-winded, and it's certainly no fun when you're totally outnumbered. IntroductionI've yet to meet a person who doesn't like the classic board game, Risk.
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