"Let's play Global Thermonuclear War"
by Conrad Quilty-Harper 
{ Dec 23rd 2005 at 6:30AM }
Introversion, the creator of two classic indie games (Uplink and Darwinia) have announced that they're working on a third game, entitled DEFCON. The game will be a multiplayer strategy game that pits two players against each other in a game of "Global Thermonuclear War". The subject of nuclear warfare has been an underlying theme in many games, but in recent video game history there hasn't been a game completely devoted to the subject. We're hoping that DEFCON will also include a healthy dosage (no more than 200 REMs) of satire. As the film WarGames taught us about nuclear war, "the outcome is always the same, there is no winner". Although that wouldn't be very fun in a video game now, would it?
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Nico @ Dec 23rd 2005 7:10AM
"but in recent video game history there hasn't been a game completely devoted to the subject."
It may not be a recent game but Nuclear War on the Amiga was one of the coolest games ever. I loved playing as Ronald Raygun, Ghandi or Thatcher. To much fun memories. I hope they use this game as inspiration and go the humor route rather than the serious route.
Link:
http://www.megagames.com/news/html/freegames/nuclearwar210deluxe.shtml
Conrad Quilty-Harper @ Dec 23rd 2005 7:19AM
I'm personally hoping to see elements from Dr. Strangelove, WarGames and Missile Command in this game. If they could pull it off it could be the company's first real mainstream hit.
Lewis @ Dec 23rd 2005 8:00AM
Going way back we find the awesome Armaggedon Man for the C64 & later the Amiga. Although the intent was to avert nuclear exchange it was more fun to remove troublesome nations by manipulating the other nations into nuking them. Also came with a glorious plastic finish world map & handy national flags for tracking your conspiracy of nukeage.
http://www.c64.com/detail.php?gameid=141
Tachikoma @ Dec 23rd 2005 8:44AM
s-h-a-l-l w-e p-l-a-y a g-a-m-e?
Josh @ Dec 23rd 2005 9:03AM
Defcon 5 was a game by Cosmi made in 1987 for the Commodore 64.
http://www.lemon64.com/games/details.php?ID=689
Ok, so 1987 isn't so recent. ;)
Jonathan Harford @ Dec 23rd 2005 9:53AM
Don't you mean, “The only way to win is not to play”?
Doug teh H-Nut @ Dec 23rd 2005 10:25AM
Dude. I wanna play as Reagan.
RocketPunch @ Dec 23rd 2005 10:54AM
WarGames!? they should do a remake of that movie. Along with "The Last Star Fighter"
Scott @ Dec 23rd 2005 11:03AM
How about a nice game of chess?
Pata @ Dec 23rd 2005 11:23AM
In Soviet Russia, chess plays YOU.
Shagi @ Dec 23rd 2005 2:45PM
I think you mean, 'The only winning move is...not to play".