Setting up a new single player match means you will have to go into the advanced settings every single time in order to change a few options to single player mode. The entire atmosphere is very cold and impersonal. Each match takes between 15 to 20 minutes to complete, and it often feels like each instance ends abruptly without much of a climax or excitement in the confrontations. At the end of each match, you will be shown a small statistics screen with how much of the enemy population you have killed, how many of your population have been killed, and so on. The feeling that lives are actually being lost is not truly present. It all just feels like you are clicking around on the map and delegating orders. Nuking cities and other strategic locations doesn't exactly feel like you are killing people. Because of these timing issues, sometimes you will win or lose depending on how quickly or how slowly your units execute orders in conjunction with timers. Several things must go right, and occur at specific moments in order to be successful. Certainly, each match has an ending, but the game truly shines when you play it repeatedly alone or online. What is most valuable in DEFCON is the replay ability. Implementing orders to your units can sometimes be confusing and inadequate, but with enough attempts, you become used to the interface, and will be able to do all of the game's strategical requirements. The map is fairly accurate, depicting the geopolitical era of the Cold War. Personally, I prefer playing against the CPU, much like in the movie. The multi player scene is still active, and it is very easy to find open matches with all kinds of different settings. Implementing orders to your DEFCON borrows some of its lore and most of its appearance from portions of the movie WarGames.
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