Comments on: DEFCON http://rooreynolds.com/2008/11/07/ive-been-playing-defcon/ What's Next? Fri, 20 Apr 2012 22:09:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Rain Ashford http://rooreynolds.com/2008/11/07/ive-been-playing-defcon/comment-page-1/#comment-121881 Rain Ashford Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:27:21 +0000 http://rooreynolds.com/?p=1112#comment-121881 Absolutely agree with you on DEFCON, Roo - it's amazing and addictive - but it's not an easy ride though. The tagline 'everybody dies' sums it up very well and is very sobering as you nuke entire nations and the casualties appear on the screen as huge numbers. Although the music is very atmostpheric, after a while it's a bit repetitive and makes me feel a little down, but then it's not meant to be a particuarly jolly game. I love the graphics, I'm sure they must have been inspired by one of my favourite films, Wargames ;-) Although different to DEFCON, Multiwinia, is cool and definately worth a look, as skin74 mentions above. Absolutely agree with you on DEFCON, Roo – it’s amazing and addictive – but it’s not an easy ride though. The tagline ‘everybody dies’ sums it up very well and is very sobering as you nuke entire nations and the casualties appear on the screen as huge numbers. Although the music is very atmostpheric, after a while it’s a bit repetitive and makes me feel a little down, but then it’s not meant to be a particuarly jolly game. I love the graphics, I’m sure they must have been inspired by one of my favourite films, Wargames ;-)

Although different to DEFCON, Multiwinia, is cool and definately worth a look, as skin74 mentions above.

]]> By: skink74 http://rooreynolds.com/2008/11/07/ive-been-playing-defcon/comment-page-1/#comment-119012 skink74 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:33:36 +0000 http://rooreynolds.com/?p=1112#comment-119012 Couldn't agree more about DEFCON. I would <i>highly</i> recommend Darwinia. It's quite simple gameplay, but requires some thought to be applied to each map since each holds a different challenge. The story is told well and is actually quite touching, and the retro graphics are just perfect. It doesn't take long to play through, but for a tenner is good value. Play it then get Multiwinia which is an absolute riot of 15 minute strategy mayhem, even in single player (complete with the subs from DEFCON for nuke attacks which is a nice touch). Not sure if Multiwinia has made it to Mac yet though. Couldn’t agree more about DEFCON. I would highly recommend Darwinia. It’s quite simple gameplay, but requires some thought to be applied to each map since each holds a different challenge. The story is told well and is actually quite touching, and the retro graphics are just perfect. It doesn’t take long to play through, but for a tenner is good value.

Play it then get Multiwinia which is an absolute riot of 15 minute strategy mayhem, even in single player (complete with the subs from DEFCON for nuke attacks which is a nice touch). Not sure if Multiwinia has made it to Mac yet though.

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