DEFCON is a real-time strategy game created by independent British game developer Introversion Software, developers of Darwinia and Uplink. The gameplay is reminiscent of the "big boards" that visually represented thermonuclear war in the films Dr. Strangelove, Fail-Safe, and especially WarGames.
The game has been available by download since September, 2006 through Introversion's webstore and Steam. In the UK it was released for the high street s...
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DEFCON is a real-time strategy game created by independent British game developer Introversion Software, developers of Darwinia and Uplink. The gameplay is reminiscent of the "big boards" that visually represented thermonuclear war in the films Dr. Strangelove, Fail-Safe, and especially WarGames.
The game has been available by download since September, 2006 through Introversion's webstore and Steam. In the UK it was released for the high street shops on June 15, 2007 and for a limited period includes the developer's first game Uplink. On April 5, 2007, U.S. publisher Encore announced they would be publishing the game in the United States, and had ordered an initial 50,000 copies of the game for retail.
In DEFCON, players are given a 1980s vector graphics computer-themed world map, a varied arsenal of nuclear and conventional weaponry, and a primary objective: destroy as much of the enemy's population as possible while having as little of one's own population destroyed as possible. A...
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