Defcon 5

Review by: Rogue Leader

I got this game just before babbages closed for $18. What a waste of $18!!!! I like lots of games, even ones people usually don't like. I did not like this game!

Let me just start out by saying it does have an interesting concept, you have the run of a space station and you have to get rid of all the attacking aliens and get the hell off. Fairly sharp but kinda cruddy and dull and not well acted cut scenes follow, and then you are thrusted into this game. First off- graphics- 2 out of 10, Looks like someone whupped it with a big ugly stick!! You run through these pixellated corridors trying desperately to figure out what in hell is going on, then you finally realize there's a cryptic walkthrough in the instruction book to get you started, if I had to figure out what went on in that walkthrough by myself I would have ripped the CD out of my Saturn and smashed it into little pieces!! Once you get through the walkthrough the game starts, unfortunately. You have to get the station's systems running, set up it's defenses and sometimes man gun turrets to kill some slow moving stupid AI alien ships and if one gets through then they board the station, you then have to corridior prowl to kill them or send drone robots to do it, try figureing out how to get them drones to work is a bad game in itself!!! You eventually get frustrated and try to kill the aliens yourself, where you are treated to chunky looking stupid things that are no fun to kill as you listen to terrible sound FX and music. And really annoying, if you kill too many in one area the place is unstable for humans for a while. At this point you just get pissed rip the CD out and become more pissed because you can't return it because babbages closed down!!! Overall avoid this game like the plague and come to my house to see what it looks like when you light a saturn game on fire!!!


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