Defcon: Strategic Nuclear War

by Encore

Product Features

• Playable on your PC

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000ZHMRS6
• Item Weight: 12.3 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: December 18, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,729 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

It's the End Of the World as You Know It! Inspired by the 1983 cult hit, War Games, Defcon puts you right in the middle of the Cold War era. Your success and our ultimate survival are on the line.   Can you dominate or will you crumble under the pressure and paranoia?   Compete as 1 of 6 superpowers embroiled in the largest military conflict imaginable!  The only game that allows players to rain nuclear death on the enemy and rack up kill counts in the 10s of MILLIONS!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An Amazing Thermo Nuclear War Strategy Game!, March 3, 2008

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Creation27 (San Jose, CA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Defcon: Strategic Nuclear War (Video Game)

If you like strategy games, this is the game for you.

A bit lacking at first in the area of graphics, but you can download free MODs that include a detailed topographical map of the Earth, a Nuclear Space battle between a few different planets, and an entire list of other mods.

This game is almost designed as Openware and there are a LOT of mods available both official and unofficial.

Once you load it you can give the cd to your friends to load as well because you don't need the cd to play.

It almost feels like an old stripped down Military Strategic Training simulation...so there is no problem with realism.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cool game, July 25, 2010

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Fight Game (FLA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Defcon: Strategic Nuclear War (Video Game)

This is a cool game that is fun and can be played quick and easy or get more difficult depending on your motivation to make it more difficult and strategic. You can download a free demo for single player or online play at the introversion website but you can't set any map options. So download it or jst buy it cause you won't regret it it is a cool game!!! I play it on a regular old computer no grahpics card or anything and it plays just fine, except when world scale is set to 200% or a full room of 6 online players are making lots of moves and blowing stuff up my comptuer slows down a bit. Really is a cool game, I gave it 4 stars cause often times my planes will fly across the world to try to get to an aircraft carrier out in the middle of the sea instead of land near by at an airstrip. Must be computer memory, so I have to keep a watchful eye at times. Doesn't break the game, just pisses me off when I see them heading for certain doom cause they don't have enough fuel to make it wherever they are going, which is not back to the closest base or carrier as they normally do.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars its ok, July 30, 2009

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That Man (some were) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Defcon: Strategic Nuclear War (Video Game)

there is no single player campain only a short tutorial after that its all set up games against the ai or others online pick one of six contries nukem to the stone age its very easy to customise with mods and if your to lazy to take 5 minutes with photo shop or gimp theres a number of difernt looks you can set for anything and everything and change teritories borders ect in mine i have two i made that include australia no new mods avalible on there site or the more well organized unoficial site but its easy to do its good for some one to play now and then its not most likely gona keep you intrested in playing for hours and hours at a time unless you set a ww3 kinda game were you vs ai or other play each with 3 teritories and your goin at the slow time speed 5 outa 10 not bad not great