![]() ![]() Not round after indefinite round of Counter-Strike game that isn't non-committal, with people dipping in, not doing anything for two minutes, then leaving. The game fills a void that I'd almost forgotten was there a short exciting, self-contained game. ![]() Games like Crysis may well make people scream with delight but DEFCON has a beautiful, efficient minimalism that hits you on a deeper level you couldn't have made this game any other way. DEFCON rekindles the beautifully crafted fears of the '80s and brings the childhood tingles flooding back. Holland's acting funny too, and Mr Patterson's spending far too long in his shed at the weekends. Iran have just built a heavy water plant. It feels like the right time for a nuclear shit-scare revival. ![]() And it s not the millionaire either, because you know that robot's going to revert to its original programming when you spill your pink gin onto its pleasure circuit. You know who you'd rather be, and it's not the humping dead guy. The only people who'll be really safe from this war are the people who'll start it the people so divorced from what it means to be decent and humane that they're physically able to pick up the phone and order something as devastating as a nuclear strike. And finally, there's the button-pressers. Paranoid millionaires will finally get to use their undersea bunkers and observe the carnage on a wall of monitors with an ex-military robot who's been reprogrammed to function as a masseuse. Your common or garden peasant - you and me - imagines four minutes of frantic apologies and humping before the skin is hosed from our skeletons with an atomic sandblast. Everyone Has a personal vision of what a nuclear war would be like. ![]()
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