A fun but disturbing strategy game.
User Rating: 8.7 | DEFCON: Everybody Dies PC
DEFCON subtitled Everybody Dies is a real time strategy game by the indie gaming company Introversion Software. Introversion already has a good reputation for making other unique games such as Darwinia and Uplink. The game is based in the Cold War and is greatly inspired by the movie Wargames. You start each game at DEFCON 5 and eventually get down to DEFCON 1 in which the game turns into all out nuclear war. After around 80% of all the players nuclear weapons have been used a winning timer starts (45 minutes by default) and whoever has lost the least civilians and inflicted the most damage by the end of the timer wins. Really you can't win in you can only lose less (just like what it would be like a real nuclear war). Either way you are going to lost millions upon millions of people, it's a good thing there has never been a all out nuclear war before! DEFCON really has a great atmosphere to it, it's disturbing a tense. The very clean and undetailed art style really make you feel like your controlling the the end of the world from inside a bunker deep underground. The very tense instrumental music really helps contribute to the whole end of the world type feeling the game is trying to evoke. There are some very subtle ambient sounds too you can hear someone coughing every now and then and I believe near DEFCON 1 you hear a woman crying which really evokes the seriousness of the game's whole idea. DEFCON is a good strategy game that really makes you think, even after you done playing. About how close we were to this really happening, and about how horrible nuclear weapons really are. It's really just outright disturbing the first time you see something like "London 2.4 mil. dead".
