Deadlock

by MacSoft

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00002S6BI
• Item model number: 04-15744
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,423 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

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Amazon.com Product Description

Seven races colonize a virgin planet. Only one will survive. Build your province's structures. Conduct research to advance your race. Devise the perfect strategy of diplomacy, intimidation, and warfare to ensure your survival. Play against the computer or a live opponent in this innovative turn-based strategy game. Start as one of seven races and grow your colony as you build farms, factories, power plants, and military bases. Succeed through economic and cultural domination as well as brute strength. Deploy your sea, land, and air troops into battle against enemies across the entire planet. Command more than forty different military units as you battle in vivid 3-D. Develop devious strategies to outwit enemy leaders. Negotiate alliances and pacts with rival nations until you are prepared to attack. Research powerful new technologies to build advanced military units, new sources of power, and devastating weapons of destruction. Challenge the computer's sophisticated A.I. or play head-to-head against up to seven players with full multiplayer support for modem, serial, LAN, and Internet play.

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Colonization with a twist, November 14, 1999

By 

Barbara Thomas - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Deadlock (CD-ROM)

This is a decent game. It plays well, and is somewhat addictive. You basically have to colonize a planet, using its resources to build the population AND armies, while keeping the peace. This is NOT as easy as it seems -- and many of us die-hard gamers like that. Diplomacy sometimes works, and sometimes backfires. Races have differing abilities, which add to gameplay. While most of the graphics are cool, some are game-boardish. Game play is limited to land regions, and you are able to customize the planet you wish to explore.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars As enjoyable as it is charming, January 10, 2000

By 

Alex (College Park, MD) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Deadlock (CD-ROM)

I enjoyed Deadlock for one major reason: its humor. In the world of such games like Alpha Centauri and Command and Conquer, the gory blood-shot games that take themselves completely seriously, Deadlock gives you all those games offer but also presents everything in such a unique way that just can't resist a chuckle. Let's look at the game's elements:

1. Graphics - not cutting-edge, but not too shabby. I agree, your lands do look a bit board-game like, but this just adds to the charm. Maybe it was meant to be this way. All the structures are original and interesting, most are animated in some way. The menus are easy to read. One gripe: the colonists are flat and barely detailed. But I'm sure you can take all this.

2. Sound - marvelously ambient and soulful, it's perfect for a game like this. The hum of the machinery at the settlements of the sickly Maug techies, the chants of the mystic Cyth, the chattering of the insectoid Ch'ch't, it all is so... magical. The score is not that great, but it isn't loud either, so it does not become annoying.

3. Controls - tight and ingenious. You rarely have a chance to make a mistake as the game is turn-based and you get plenty of chances to change your mind in the middle of things.

4. Concept - great. Incredible. The game gives you the control of a game like Sim City, it is as relaxing as a slow game of Monopoly ( not to say it doesn't get just as frantic at times). The world you have to colonize is randomly generated each time you begin anew. The technologies are interesting and innovative.

Overall, this is a neat little game, even if it didn't score a runaway hit, it still has its tight little circle of followers.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quite addictive, June 16, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Deadlock (CD-ROM)

A moderate learning curve (the game easily lets you set playing levels so it's fun while you're learning)... you must gradually "research" technologies, then build & develop them. A very, very well-balanced game; you're always debating whether to invest in armaments & try to attack (or need to defend!) versus putting your investment into research to develop stronger weapons, faster factories, power plants, farms, etc. to support them. You can also research to expand your ability to research. You get the idea; well-designed strategic elements.

The result is very, very good game play. And if the game gets easy, you can just "up" the computer opponents' features making them quite tough (I've played this for years, & still find it quite challenging and quite addictive at its highest settings!) I've never played network play, so I can't comment on it.

This is one game I've periodically had to wipe off my hard drive just so I could get some work done.