Shall we play a Game?
Posted by inpheaux on December 26th, 2005 at 5:12 am
How about Global Thermonuclear War?
Introversion Software recently announced their third game. The followup to their two previous critically acclaimed indie games Uplink and Darwinia will be a game called Defcon. A quick look at either of the two screenshots currently released make it pretty clear: Defcon is a Global Thermonuclear War simulator.
Details are rather sparse at the moment, as the Defcon official site is effectively empty, but we know it's loosely being modeled after the simulation featured in the film WarGames. As such, it's pretty safe to assume it'll be USA v. USSR all over again, and that there will be many explosions. Current estimations have a release date pencilled in some time around Spring 2006, most likely via Steam, as Introversion hopped on the big Steam bandwagon earlier this month when they re-released Darwinia.
We love Introversion stuff here at DPad, so we'll be keeping our eyes peeled for news as Defcon nears release.
Note that it is currently unknown as to if Defcon will be winnable, but something tells me a tagline of "The only way to win is not to play" won't exactly inspire massive sales.
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