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Defcon is a game that lingers on the line of a survival/strategy game, in which compete as one of the 6 superpowers embroiled in the ColdWar. This game lets you rain nuclear death upon your opponents racking up kill counts of millions.
Defcon was inspired by a cult hit WarGames, and is brought to you by the same people who brought you Darwinia, Introversion Software.
Defcon has relatively slow gameplay, although it can be controlled to progress faster or slow. Players take control of either North America, South America, Russia, Europe, Africa, or Asia. No country has any advantage over the other, the only difference, is the location. The game starts at Defcon 5 and eventually leads to Defcon 1, in which you can unleash nuclear havoc upon your enemies, but be careful, so can they.
Defcon 5
The game starts out at the rating Defcon 5 and eventually progress to Defcon 1. During Defcon 5, players can build their silos/airdefence, airbases, radars, and fleets.
Defcon 4
During Defcon 4, you can begin to move your fleets into international waters and continue building units. Your radars will also show you enemy information that they pull up. You should really finish building your units, because after this, you will not be able to make more.
Defcon 3
You can no longer build any units, however you can engage the enemy in naval and airborne combat. This is the chance to make your move and start navigating your fleet of ships around, and send your subs to the enemy coast, watch out for carriers though, they can destroy them with ease.
Defcon 2
This is where your naval and airborne combat will hit its peak. Battles will be raging in the seas and off the coasts of countries.
Defcon 1
This is where the real action is happening, submarines are emerging from the seas preparing to launch their MRB's, air defense bases are going into silo mode and launching their ICBM's. All out war.
The average game of Defcon bases the score on two things, Kill Count and Survival Count. Basically, all cities population vary, the bigger the city, the more kills a nuke will rack up, however it will not kill everyone. There are survivors and you may want to nuke it twice.
The more survivors you have the less points you will lose. For every 1 million of your civilians that die, you lose a point, for every 1 million you kill, you get 2 points, so obviously you are encouraged to cause mayhem.
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Multiplayer
Yes, there is multiplayer and it has many different modes.
Default
A standard game of Defcon, score the real points by nuking your opponent.
Office mode
Defcon will run in a window with no sound, and in real-time for no more than 6 hours. If the boss appears, press esc twice to hide the window. Double click on the Defcon taskbar icon to resume command.
Bigworld
The world is twice as big. Each unit is half the normal size, and has half the radar range, half the weapon range, and moves at half the speed. For those who love long games.
Speed Defcon
Defcon will run at full speed and will last no longer than 15 minutes. Pausing is disabled.
Diplomacy
All players will start as members of the green alliance, with radar sharing turned on and scoring set to 'Survivor'. How long will the alliance last, someone has to win.
I found this game at BigLots for 6 dollars, yeah I got lucky. This game is available on Steam for 15 dollars, and is well worth the money.
