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prog ([personal profile] prog) wrote2007-06-13 02:18 pm

DEFCON out for Mac

I discover that DEFCON - Everybody Dies has been ported to Mac; you can download a free demo at that link. For me personally, it is without a doubt the most powerfully and purely negative computer game I've played lately. I get very emotionally involved playing this, to the level where I feel real discomfort, almost to the point of literal nausea. I am not sure I'd want to play this game with another person... or maybe that would take the edge off. Who knows.

Objectively, this is all very interesting to me.

The game's worth experiencing for the way it mixes very clean, minimalist, even cold graphics with subtle sound effects and slow, dark ambient music that offers a continual dirge for the events that are unfolding (and which you are helping to cause). The overall effect is intensely disturbing even though it features no single element that would peg an MPAA-style content advisory.

[identity profile] cortezopossum.livejournal.com 2007-06-13 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
A friend of mine had been trying to convince me to get and play this but I guess the whole thing just sounded so unappealing to me.

[identity profile] prog.livejournal.com 2007-06-13 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I feel it's worth seeing as art, but I'm not sure it's my cup of tea as a game.