Global Domination is a bewildering, frenetic strategy/action game for 1 to 16 players that takes the ever looming specter of all-out, full-scale global war and makes it ... well, kinda goofy and fun.
In a radical departure from the click-on-a-tank-and-send-it-somewhere formula of almost every other real-time strategy game, Global Domination is played in real time on a rotatable globe covered with crisply defined and brightly colored nations.
You'll be sitting there, watching your home country from orbit, when suddenly you'll see a deadly cluster of ICBMs arcing over the horizon. Their streaking vapor trails are the color of an enemy nation, so you know they're bad news. Now think fast, 'cause you've got about six seconds before they land: Are they conventional? Are they nukes? Do you have time to shoot them down? Should you even try?
Oh crap, bombers are coming, too, and a chopper, probably full of special-forces goons who'll paralyze your entire military-industrial complex. Scramble the fighters, now! Your fingers fumble with the mouse as you panic - and then the missiles impact. Nukes. The environmental-damage indicator bar for your country darkens ominously. Can't take another hit like that.
Global Domination is a remarkably colorful and sleek game that presents all the information a player needs in clean, iconic displays. Calling the game "Risk meets Missile Command" is fair, but that description fails to encompass the ever tense, ticktock paranoia of real-time competition and the constant interplay of alliances, betrayals, sneak attacks, and last-ditch defenses.
Global Domination: US$49.95. Psygnosis: +1 (650) 287 6500.
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