defcon to be pretty good, probably

By: dessgeega

On: July 25th, 2006

my friend andrew gray recently had the chance to talk to introversion about defcon, their upcoming nuclear holocaust simulator. the result is a four-page spread in pc power play magazine.

“I think the stylized graphics of our games has become one of our trademarks,” chris delay told andy. “Making games with unique art styles like Darwinia and DEFCON also has a big advantage: your game instantly stands out from the crowd and can be recognized from a single screenshot….Some companies spend millions of dollars trying to get that exact effect by making their games extremely realistic – but there’s only so far you can go with that.”

speaking of darwinia, they spoke about darwinia: “…the second demo took us four months to create – all for just one level with about an hour’s gameplay!” defcon will be closer to uplink in that it won’t rely on stage-based gameplay and scripted events. in fact, it won’t have a single-player mode at all, though ai opponents will be available.

the game sounds pretty swell – installations reveal themselves when they fire on enemy installations, after which point you can expect retaliatory fire to obliterate you. everybody loses, “you just have to make sure you lose the least!”

there’s more, including more info about the game’s unit types than you need to know before the game is released, and you can read it yourself in the september issue of pc power play, currently on newstands – in australia and new zealand.