Squid of Man

Introversion's latest "critics favourite", Defcon, is out and for those of us who can't be arsed paying for the privelege of playing it you can snag the demo for nothin'. It's pretty damn cool, letting you live out all your darkest Dr. Strangelove fantasies with none of the post-apocalyptic clean-up to worry about.

Yeah, it's simple, but when you're dealing with the extermination of the majority of the human species and the annihiliation of all other life on Earth I guess it's best to keep the micromanagement to a minimum.

Best of all, the "humour" in which the game is presented shows an ironically thorough grasp of the subject matter. As you'd expect from Introversion, there's no plot or morals or any other kind of baggage: "It's Global Thermonuclear War, and nobody wins. But maybe - just maybe - you can lose the least."