Defcon 5
The main game takes place in a first-person view inside the complex. Trams connect the maze-like living areas to a handful of manned turrets outside. You must shuttle between shooting down waves of fighters in…
Defcon 5 is an adventure developed by Millennium Interactive, released 24 November 1995 on 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, PlayStation, Sega Saturn and DOS.
What Defcon 5 is
Defcon 5 is an adventure game developed by Millennium Interactive and released in 1995. It was published by Vic Tokai. It is available on 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, PlayStation, Sega Saturn and DOS.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The main game takes place in a first-person view inside the complex. Trams connect the maze-like living areas to a handful of manned turrets outside. You must shuttle between shooting down waves of fighters in the turrets, and scouring the base levels for card keys during the down time. A third consideration is the "Virtual Operating System" controlling all major base functions. You use this interface to repair damage from attacks, monitor intruders, and place robot sentries to guard key passages. As you find more access keys, you can increase the software's efficiency to the point that you can command turrets remotely, or set them to auto-attack with a high degree of success. As defending…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Defcon 5 holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1995 averaged 66, so it scored 4 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Defcon 5 launched on 24 November 1995, within three weeks of Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Suikoden, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Suikoden, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3.
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