In most games, all sides take heavy losses, but the player with the highest score wins. A typical game will see civilian casualties numbering in the millions (megadeaths) while players try their hand at annihilating their opponents. Players are given a 1980s vector graphics computer-themed world map, a varied arsenal of nuclear and conventional weaponry, and a primary objective: destroy as much of the enemy's population as possible while having as little of one's own population destroyed as possible. In the UK it was released for retail on 15 June 2007 and for a limited period included the developer's first game Uplink. 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. The game has been available by download since Septemthrough Introversion's web store and Steam. Strangelove, Fail-Safe, and especially WarGames. The gameplay is a simulation of a global nuclear war, with the game's screen reminiscent of the 'big boards' that visually represented thermonuclear war in films such as Dr. Zero-player, singleplayer and multiplayerĭEFCON (stylised as DEFCOИ and sometimes subtitled Everybody Dies in the North American version and Global Thermonuclear War in the European version) is a real-time strategy game created by independent British game developer Introversion Software.

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