DEFCON

Now if you've seen the movie Wargames from 1983 you might have felt a need that I felt the first time I saw the movie a few years ago. The need to play Global Thermonuclear War and after some searching I found the game DEFCON which captures the essence of the idea.

In DEFCON you get to play as one of six superpowers those being North America, Europe, Russia, South America, Africa and Asia. The games goal is quite simple, eliminate the enemy without taking too big casualties. When you nuke an enemy city you more or less wipe out all life, kill counts as high as 10's of millions is common in the game. The combat revolves around two different things, the first being your land based nukes and the other being your sea based nukes. On land you have airbases, radar and silos, the latter being the most important as it not only launches your nukes it also serves as air defence against enemy planes and nukes. The two types of aircraft is light jets and heavy bombers, both playing an important role in both defence and attack. The jets scouts for enemy units and is very useful for shooting down enemy bombers trying to nuke your cities. The bomber is a very important unit not only for nuking enemy territory but also attacking enemy naval units of your coast.
Each player has a number of naval fleets compromised of subs, battleships and aircraft carriers. All units are important in attacking roles as the subs carry nukes, the carriers carry(wut) planes which carry nukes,(oh man I need to learn another word for carry), and battleships used for defending your other ships against enemy air and sea attacks.


As the game draws towards it's climax you'll most likely see almost every nuke in the game being fired at the same time, seeing as a launch from your silo causes it to be revealed to all enemies. However you wish to play the game, defensive or aggressive, you'll see death. Lots and lots and lots of death, in a 6 player game with no alliances you wipe out most of the earth's population, as a real global thermonuclear war would do.

DEFCON is a good independent game based on a unusual idea that provided a very entertaining game. Sure you can't play it over and over for days on end since the games almost always end the same way. How ever it is entertaining enough for you to dust of and play a few times a year and with a price of only 10€ I feel it's worth buying.

The ship

The ship is, well I suppose it's quite hard to outline what it is exactly, but I guess you can call it a first-person shooter mixed with the board game clue. It's set on 1920's era luxury liners, boats like Titanic fit right in here. There is a major twist in the game and that is that you are the killer. The game play mechanics revolve around finding your target, and bash their skull in as stealthy as possible. To achieve this you have a wide variety of face breaking weapons at your disposal, such as the poison syringe or exploding wallet. The majority of weapons are just basic melee weapons and firearms.


To make the game a bit more interesting everyone else on the ship has a target as well and while trying to assassinate your own target you have to watch out so you don't get a dagger in your back.  Every time you kill a target you are awarded with a big chunk of cash and the goal of the game is to have as much money as possible. While moving around searching for your target you have to watch out for security, in the form of guards and sometimes security cameras. If you are caught with a weapon in your hand you are given a fine and thrown in jail for a period of time. 
Even though your time in jail strips you of your entire inventory and removes you from the action for a brief period of time, the real problem is the fine since it hinders your chance to win the game.

2 tips for you people

If you like dubstep you should check out the game Syndicate, is has one of the best soundtracks I have ever heard (I am a bit of a dubstep freak). Check out the trailer below

This tip goes out to basically everyone, you should check out the HBO series Game of Thrones.
It's a really good series that has just started the second season, and if you haven't seen it you should check it out.

Well that's all from me today, come back tomorrow for some more gaming videos and reviews.

Europa Universalis II

Now this is a game I acquired years ago when it was released and I've been playing it since, as you might have noticed on my other posts I enjoy playing strategy games. This is one of my favourite games ever. 


In Europa Universalis II you control a nation's political, economic and technological development through the centuries. Military force, trade, religious upheaval and diplomacy are some of the tools you have at your disposal for a successful victory. The time span you are playing is from 1419 to 1820, and you can choose to start any time during these years.


The game starts in the late middle ages, at a low technological level, you have to research new infantry, cavalry, cannons and boats to be able to wage war in an efficient manner. The games is pretty much a sandbox game since you can form alliances with whoever you want and attack whoever you want. It's sometimes fun to invade a small city state just because it produces a high value goods, but as I noticed the first time I played is that if you expand to rapidly the entire world will hate you and form alliances to take you out. It's not fun to be attacked by every of your neighbouring countries. 


As I have already stated this game is one of my favourites and that's why I've given it a 5/5.


Check out the video for some game play, if you're good at the game that might be how your empire will look after a few days of playing.

New post soon

Just a short notice that I will post a new review tomorrow or the day after tomorrow

Battlelog

After a few hours of Battlefield today it has become clear that my favourite class isn't the support, it's a tie between assault and engineer. This became clear to me today as I got the MG36, the gun I see other players with the most and it's just as bad as all the other LMG's. You have absolutely no chance to hit someone far away unless you are using the bipod instead of the vertical grip which I find bad because if you use that you have no chance of hitting someone up close. So I've gone back to using assault and engineer with carbines and assault rifles. Vertical grip is a must for every gun that has it, if you want to hit anything, and I usually the HOLO or RDS sights on the guns, the acog sights I find to be bad in close quarters but with HOLO and RDS you can still hit people at medium range. Heavy barrel or suppressor is what I use the most on the guns aswell. I find that with the slower rate of fire on the suppressor you can hit stuff. Another post is coming about my favourite weapons as I feel the urge to play coming on.

WoWmatrix and Curse client

WoWmatrix and Curse client are two programs made for updating your addons automatically I feel that WoWmatrix is the better of the two programs that I am using simply because you get all it's functions for free, which you don't with curse client. WoWmatrix is also easier to use since there is no setup process, you just install it and you're ready to go. You can install new addons with it aswell and when you need to update all you do is click a button, sure not all addons are on WoWmatrix, and that's why I use both programs. Curse client is only good for one thing and that is updating the addons that aren't on WoWmatrix.