Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The game has been available by download since September 29, 2006 through Introversion's web store and Steam. On 5 April 2007, publisher Encore announced they would be publishing the game in the United States, and had ordered an initial 50,000 copies of the game for retail. [ 1 ]
In Q3 2010 the company was able to add Steam achievements to DEFCON which resulted in the game being prominently featured in a sale. [12] Morris credits the $250,000 generated by the Steam promotion as saving the company. [13] Later, Introversion's games were featured in a Humble Indie Bundle that launched in November 2011. The "Humble ...
The player plays as NORAD or WOPR.The game takes place 20 years after the film: WOPR attempts to exterminate humanity and NORAD tries to stop it. [4] During a mission the player takes control of a vehicle and can change the controls of any vehicle the team has—for example, while NORAD has heavily armored and armed tanks and aircraft, WOPR possesses exotically futuristic mechs and hovercraft.
The name refers to the condition used to designate normal peacetime military readiness under the DEFCON system, but which is commonly misused in popular fiction to indicate a state of emergency as the highest (DEFCON 1) and lowest (DEFCON 5) levels of preparedness on the scale are conflated. The game was originally announced under the title ...
Game content, including graphics, animation, sound, and physics, is authored in the 3D modeling and animation suite Blender [1] Blender Game Engine: C, C++: 2000 Python: Yes 2D, 3D Windows, Linux, macOS, Solaris: Yo Frankie!, Sintel The Game, ColorCube: GPL-2.0-or-later: 2D/3D game engine packaged in a 3D modelar with integrated Bullet physics ...
Unity of Command II received "generally favorable reviews" according to review aggregator Metacritic. [12]Rob Zacny, in a review on Vice, noted how the game departed in so many ways from the original, but remained a "simple joy to play", calling it a "wargame that invites a lot of delightful perfectionist revisiting for a long time to come". [14]
Ahoy!'s AmigaUser stated that "Defcon 5 strikes a pleasing balance between strategy and action". [3] ACE thought the game was "one of the less impressive offerings in the current Cosmi range"; despite the "sharp digitised graphics", the magazine said that Defcon 5 would "fall short in the playability stakes".
WarGames: Defcon 1, a 1997 PlayStation 1 and PC arcade-shooter (PS1)/real-time strategy (PC) game very loosely set 20 years after the events of the iconic film. DEFCON, a 2006 real-time strategy game; Defcon 5 (1987 video game), an SDI Simulation game by Cosmi Corporation