The first DEFCON reviews come in...

[Nadorst]

PCGameplay (Flemish Belgian magazine) october 06 issue:

CoH is game of the month with 90/100 but DEFCON also has a 2-page review...

Positive & negative:
+original presentation
+functional gfx & sound
+simple but tactical gameplay
-complex seabattles
-losing job possible because of addiction

Scores:
Gameplay: 54/60
Graphics: 16/20
Sound: 16/20
Total score: 86/100

[Mascot]

includes a rolling demo, as the game is just plain fun to watch

Please, oh anything divine, let this be the IV game that finally is possible to launch as a screensaver somehow.

[Seal9]

PCGameplay (Flemish Belgian magazine) october 06 issue:

CoH is game of the month with 90/100 but DEFCON also has a 2-page review...

Positive & negative:
+original presentation
+functional gfx & sound
+simple but tactical gameplay
-complex seabattles
-losing job possible because of addiction

Scores:
Gameplay: 54/60
Graphics: 16/20
Sound: 16/20
Total score: 86/100

Nice,
I played the beta of CoH and its a very nice game and it looks great.
Nice job being second place for Defcon .
Gonna look the magazine when I get home from work.

Oh and off course getting Defcon when I get home

[Nemetroid]

Swedish gaming magazine Super Play has done a 2 page review of Defcon.


All grades out of ten:



Graphics: 3 - Minimalistic and abstract perfection for esthets. (a bit strange grade since the reviewer speaks warmly of the graphics in the review)
Sound: 5 - A lonely melody plays against the background sound of nuclear explosions.
Control: 8 - You lean back with one hand on the mouse. You can do whatever you want with the other one.
Lifetime(bad translation): 7 - The best strategy game since Indians, Persians and Iranians arguod about who really invented chess.


Total score: 8/10

[holdmykidney]

I've now posted my review up on fragLANd.

[Nutter]

Looked around the web and found quite a few reviews so I updated the list on page 1.

[estel]

Edge's review was a bit... weird. Slightly unsubstatial. I'll get gamesTM later. Their webby is http://gamestm.co.uk

[Mattitude]

Good news, G@mers is going to review Defcon!

Just read this thread, and you'll pleased to know we are doing a bit on Defcon, as the Alienware guys put me onto it at their stand at the World Series of Games

Jason

He's referring to the thread over at Rapture TV Forums that I made

Sky Channel 193 remember

[no_skill]

Review @ heise telepolis (pretty big german website on net culture): http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23726/1.html

[Mentarque]

A french review of the game :

http://www.gamekult.com/tout/jeux/fiches/J000076370_test.html

it rates Defcon "good" (7/10) for single player games. And "Excellent" (9/10) for multiplayer.

Gratz Introversion for these reviews.




a quick translation (sorry my english is not very good) :

"Yes, it's still possible to make an addictive and fun game without next gen graphisms. Even if
the perspective to annhilate entire cities under atoms rain is nothing to laugh about, Defcon
still manage to make the immoral completly fun. With its gameplay that first seems simplistic,
but reveals treasure of strategy, its unique graphic style and an atmosphere to please the doctor strangelove that sleeping in us, the new game from the creator of Darwinia is a ludic UFO. Defcon is not a gadget : it's a real game, a fresh variation for the real time strategy genre. Deep but accessible, with great multiplayer, Defcon is an excellent surprise, maybe not the game to stick with all winter, but the ideal game for time to time play. There are really worth ways to spend 15 euros."


edit : for the translation

[Iris]

Another review from Yahoo News: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061011/ap_en_re/games_defcon

"Three and a half star out of four."

[Ghost Stalker]

Defcon was revieved in Wendsday... or that day what comes after Tuesday....... In Finland!!

Here is the link: http://www.tilt.tv/?cm=games&aid=12874

And NOW, I shall translate the pro's and con's given by Tilt.tv

Pro's

* Simple and working
* Open and elegantly strategic

Con's

* User Interface is too Clumsy
* Soundworld trips in its own clumsinence


And, Finaly, the grade!





8/10!!!!

Better then nothing! Its actualy pretty good in Tilt.tv's list....


-Ghost 'First.... wait, 4th? post in Defcon forum! Wohoo!' Stalker

[Darksun]

Hey, you're not Ghostalker

[Ghost Stalker]

Huh? No, I am Ghost Stalker, not Ghostalker..... why?

-Ghost 'Uplink.... what?' Stalker

[darud]

The guys from german Giga.de played Defcon last night live on TV.

I immediatly bought it!