'Peace reigns throughout the galaxy.'
Maybe so, but it doesn't make for a fun video game. These are the first words you see as the pre-rendered introduction to Defcon 5 starts.
So - what the hell is going on here then? Because I have no idea. I played this game for over an hour today. I played for an hour because I kept waiting for something to happen - sadly nothing did.
The monotone womans voice told me to go to the Command Center to be briefed on my mission. However I could not find the Command Center. I wandered around - lost - looking for something to shoot and nothing came.
Eventually the monotone voice piped up with "We are under attack". 'We'? I was always lead to believe 'we' inferred more than one person, however, I couldn't find anyone else. I wandered around the labyrinth of first person shooter mazes some more, looking for something to shoot. Eventually the woman piped up again and said, although I cannot quite recall clearly, that something had entered the compound. This final message got me excited - finally I thought, something to shoot.
Nothing came.
I went to all the places on the map. All the levels, went up and down in all the lifts and opened all the doors - Nada, nothing, nowt, not one thing presented itself to be shot at.
Peace reigns throughout the game.
At this point I thought that the game had loaded wrong - so I rebooted.
This time, when the single octave woman spoke, I was ready. I headed straight to the turrets and sure enough there were things to kill. After a short while I ran out of bullets and missiles so I headed for the next turret. Eventually all six turrets had depleted weapons.
So I headed back inside and waited for voice to speak to me once again. It did eventually - it told me that once again something had entered the compound.
Nothing materialised - maybe they were scared.
In summary Defcon 5 is the dullest first person shooter I have every played - and it is rare.
3DO Kid.
