Most of all I wanted to recreate that tension and paranoia. I wanted to see a game that looked like the movie, with vector-lined Soviet subs closing in on your coastline. There are some games which successfully simulate warfare across the world but they tend to be too heavily strategic (e.g.
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Watching the movie it dawned on me that there was a really cool game idea in that movie, and that nobody had really attempted it. In fact two of my favourite childhood movies were Wargames and Tron, which probably explains quite a lot. The hacking elements became one of the big inspirations for Uplink. It's one of those movies that I loved when I was a child. The inspiration of the game's obvious - the film Wargames with its iconic images of nuclear Armageddon sprayed a computer monitor - but what was it about this which appealed specifically to you?įirstly it's a great movie. It's like you're ten miles underground in a bunker, bringing the world to an end one city at a time, completely detached from the millions of deaths you are causing. There's very little in-game sound except deep rumbles when nukes hit. We've gone for a very minimal atmosphere, with some wonderful ambient music playing (written by Alistair Lindsay and Michael Maidment - the same guys that did the awesome Darwinia audio). It's a fascinating and nervous game to play. Games often end with both sides obliterated. We're playing this game every day and people keep coming up with new strategies - but the bottom line is it's very difficult to win convincingly. This is an extremely difficult task because launching an attack on the enemy makes you very vulnerable - Ground Silos and Subs and Bombers all give away their positions the moment they launch nuclear weapons. Points are scored by successfully nuking the enemy civilian population into oblivion. How does the game work? What sort of vibe have you gone for? The game simulates Global Thermonuclear War.Īnd, in an ideal world, we should end the interview just there, but I think we'd probably better elaborate a bit. We bounced e-mails with the effusive Chris Delay, the prime creative force at Introversion, to see what their plans are for making Doomsday as pleasant for us all as possible. But maybe - just maybe - you can lose the least.
And in the end, megadeath, nuclear armadgeddon. Fleets circle the surface, sonar trying to locate subs for depth charges. Submarines inch closer to an unsuspecting coastline, cutting down the reaction time for the opposing, arrogant superpower to react. but not simultaneously, with a delay between switching between one sort and another. Silos sit waiting, either able to discharge their missiles or act as anti-missile fire. but a game.Įssentially, it's a real-time tactical game charting a nuclear falling out between the world's superpowers, a multiplayer game with a multibillion death-count. What is it? It's That Bit In Wargames, You Know After The Machine Plays Tic-Tac-Toe With Itself When Old-Skool Graphics Of Nuclear Armageddon Flash Forth And Phrases Like Turkish Thrust Are Emblazoned Across The Screen And The World Ends One Hundred Times A Second Until The Computer Realises That War Is Bad And No-one Can Win But Hell! At Least It Looks Good, Oh Yeah, That Bit. Defcon, Introversion's recently announced new game, is a return to Uplink's tradition in that it's interesting but immediately graspable. Second came Darwinia, which is, depending on your inclination, either an RTS with wonky pathfinding and some substandard graphics or one of the best games of the last twelve months straddling half a dozen genres and a worthy subject for beat-poetry. So far, they've alternated in terms of how easy it is to grasp them. What's varied is how easy they have been to explain. Introversion have made it a habit to release brilliant games.
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