"Genocide'em up"... ?
 

http://www.everybody-dies.com/

I just red a German essay about this game, and it's predecessors. the author argued that exactly the cool, sober, abstract presentation of the mass killing going on in this game works as a motivation for the player to become aware of the cynism and think about the anti-moral dimensions and grim reality of "global thermonuclear war", making it effectively an "anti-war game".

????

Should I take that guy serious, or should i give therapy to him?

The (German language) essay can be found here:

http://www.heise.de/bin/tp/issue/r4/...726&mode=print

doesn't it remind you of that tic tac toe computer movie- can't remember the name- where a computer takes over the control of missile launchs and has to discover by trail and error that it can't win a nuclear war?

that movie you mean is "Wargames" from the early 80s, with Matthew Broderick. In fact, the game owes to that film and copies the general design of the screens in the command centre of NORAD. The german essay especially points direction to that movie, too.

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cheers that's the one..yup it's identical allmost ..wonder what the game plays like?

I gotta admit, playing this game is a very sobering experience. In one hand, it seems very detached from what's happening, you're watching little green and red missiles arcing across the Atlantic (or Pacific, or both), there's flashes of light and the words "XXX hit - Y million dead." flash up from time to time.
Yet...it's also a very deep game, the music, it seeps into your head, and as the world is slowly destroyed, the music gets very sombre, and yet soothing. The rumbles of nuclear impacts and the occasional coughing in the background serve also to make you think about the poor sods on the ground. When I play against the AI (have yet to do an online on the demo) there's a lot of forethought into where to place your assets, what to attack...where to attack from.

All this for under 100meg? And for a tenner?

Count me in.

Defon: http://207.44.214.111/subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=98121

See, see!

Played the Demo, and it's a Great Game! :up:

Hi

I bought the game as download. Nice price and a small 58meg download. Online key comes to you in mail.
The game is very nice, simple in a way, but with many possible ways to play. As the goal is to loose the least a first, and fast strike at defcon 1 isn't always the best way to "win". As the earth is doomed anyway you can prepare your strike a bit more. Your really don't want to be caught with all your "shields down" when the enemy launch a massive volley on your big cities. Best defense is the silo that is both air defence and your own launchpad for nukes. Problem is, it can only do one task at a time. Oh well.. try this out and have a look in the defcon forums. Cool modding is already underway. Haven't tried online yet, but I guess playing in paranoia mode where everyone start of as one allience, but only one person can win is really nervwrecking. :cool: "Launch detected" :huh:

Sounds like a boring game from what I've read!

I think Globar War that came out a few years ago from Golem software would be better than this. W

What is the point of this game if all that happens is a million thermal nukes fly across the screen and explode all around the world and everyone dies? The game might as well play itself! This is why most games like Dangerous Waters have always refused to add playable submarines with nukes on them. All the player would have to do is use those and the game would be over! Yawn! :shifty:

^^
Yes but the point is as follows:

It's Global Thermonuclear War, and nobody wins.
But maybe - just maybe - you can lose the least.

I like this one. Very, how shall I say, topical?
http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/1...2nc7vs5.th.jpg
:hmm:

Looks like you have to reread about how the game works and what the "point" in playing it is.

No thanks! I'll just play SHIII instead!

Love that pic. for those of you who dont know, that is the nuclear test of "Ivy Mike," more commonly reffered to as just "Mike" It was the U.S.'s first Hydrogen Bomb test, equaling 12-15 Megatons. It was the second biggest bomb in the U.S., the winner obviously goes to "Castle Bravo," which was the biggest U.S. bomb tested. Biggest one in the world was the Russian "Tsar Bomba," measuring 50+ Megatons (that equals 500,000,000 tons of TNT). here are the pretty cool videos for them:


Ivy Mike: http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...Ivy+Mike&hl=en

Castle Bravo: sorry, couln't find one...:x, so heres a pic!: http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/...voC1024c10.jpg

Tsar Bomba: http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...ar+Bomba&hl=en

these are pretty cool, enjoy!:up:

Yup, that nuclearweaponsarchive.org place is an interesting site :up: been there before, some of the photographs are awesome. Which reminds me, I must put 'The Atomic Bomb story - Trinity and Beyend ' (narrated by Kaptain Shatner.. I mean William Kir.. you know who :p hehe) on my list of DVD's to get.