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Version: Defcon: Everybody Dies demo
"Amazing Strategy Demo"
Pros: Introversion has done it again. Through their ingenuity and simple design, they have created an amazing, slower but still fun Real-Time Strategy game.
The premise is simple: use your units to fire nukes, bombs, bombers, ships, and more at the opposition. But it's all slower than your regular match of StarCraft: a single nuke can take upward into five minutes to run it's course (unless you kick up the speed dial at the top of the screen). This creates a tension that you have to experience, because it's less about the units and the power, and more about the player's interaction with each other. The graphics look really simple but cool, kind of a glowey, Tron sort of vibe.
This demo includes a tutorial, a computer to play against, and the limited ability to play against full-version internet players who don't have another demo player bothering them. This can give you hours of entertainment alone, and for such a small file, I can't recommend this highly enough.
Cons: It did not work with my older graphics card, which is equal to some aging dedicated graphics sets (a 32mb RivaTNT2). But as soon as I upgraded to a (pitifully weak) GeForce 200 MX, it moved like a dream. The memory was fine, I suspect this requires OpenGl support, or some of the special stuff on the GeForce.
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