By Kieron Gillen on April 25th, 2008 at 7:31 pm.
Stalin vs. Martians has been announced.
What more can you say?
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What can you say?
best game ever.
That is of course if its just Stalin, on his lonesome, beating up aliens.
If Stalin has an army it wont be as good
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Yes? Yes.
Yes.
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I was skeptical of the whole game until I saw this on their website… they’re talking about the powerups that are available:
- Armor upgrade. The lifebar of your unit will be enlarged like that penis in the spam letters you receive.
- Attack power improvement. You can kill the bastards more easily.
- Speed up. Your units will move faster. Upgraded infantry can even run with a speed of a tank. Or a member of Kenya Olimpic team.
- Meds. The pills make you feel better, even if you are, err, a howitzer. Heals your HP.”
I’m sold.
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But, Comrade Programmer! Do you not know that historical materialism dictates that any sufficiently advanced alien race must be Communist? Obviously, these aliens are a decadent Western plot, invaders from a primitive feudalist dimension yearning for the freedom of Communistic rule — or the result of hallucinatory drugs injected by rootless cosmopolitan doctors!
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Can’t wait.
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Sold!
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@twb: Sounds like you’ve read this 1908 Bolshevik novel describing a communist Utopia on Mars.
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The website itself is enough to get you hooked on this!
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That’s got my sale!
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In Stalinist Russia…okay I won’t go there!
I love this game already :D
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I suspect that Kieron might be right in more ways than one with that “videogames answer to Snakes on a Plane?” thing. The idea’s kitch and fun but I’m not sold that it’ll be any fun to play. Much like Snakes on a Plane wasn’t much fun to watch.
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Your use of tags as content is semantically intolerable!
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WE SUBVERT THE MEDIUM.
KG
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Have to agree entirely with the first two posters.
Awesome.
Also, what a surpiringly functional website.
EDIT: HOLY SHIT agreement entirely with the Man Raised By Puffins also. I am SO getting my hands on a colossal Stalin. Irl.
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What is this, some kind of May Day fools joke?
Le soleil brillera toujours!
I can’t even recall my name!
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Looks excellent. I couldn’t find any ETA on that site though.
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If there was a ‘subscribe to article’ button on RPS, I would have clicked it here.
If SvsM turns out to be shit, I’ll be very upset.
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The fact that they thought of this implies their true genius. “Wow” is about all you can say to that.
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If this game delivers on its promises. It may just be one of those ‘this reminds me why I love and play games so much’ games.
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Wait, Snakes on a Plane wasn’t fun to watch?
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Good luck to them. It sounds like exactly what gaming needs – originality, humour, and developers who have no qualms about telling tedious people to sod off. Let’s just hope they come through with a fun game.
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This looks… how you say… “all kinds of awesome?” The fact that the main page of the website is the “Ideology” section. And this quote:
“Stalin is anything but boring and it looks pretty like schoolgirl with a kitten. Can you ask for more?”
“Pretty like schoolgirl with a kitten” is now my official motto.
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The videogame answer to snakes on a plane is Fifty Cent and the Crystal Skull or however that crap be named. War against the Martians was a historical inevitability.
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Commies? Friend Computer would like to take this opportunity to remind you that Commies are the enemies of Alpha Complex and should be terminated on sight.
… I’ve been waiting for an opportunity to use a Paranoia line for ages.
This looks fun. REALLY fun.
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Would we be as optimistic if it was Hitler vs Martians?
Personally I’m waiting for Atilla Vs Mao Vs Vlad Vs Malaria Vs the dinosaurs. Because dinosaurs are mankind’s greatest threat.
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“Vopros: I can see that some of the martian units resemble the characters from other games.
Otvet: It is no coincidence. Well, most of the time. Stalin vs. Martians is not only a kitsch (check Wikipedia for this word if you’re from Iowa), but also a parody. Sort of.”
excé
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“Wait, Snakes on a Plane wasn’t fun to watch?”
I enjoyed it.
I really hope this is good, because the concept makes me smile as does their website.
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This is the most amazing thing ever. I MUST HAVE IT.
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I fully endorse this product and/or service.
That’d be stepping on the IP of a fair few people. Harry Turtledove’s novels are the main one which spring to mind but I’m sure there are others.
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Got my sale for MontyPythonesque Humor(refer to the FAQ).
This is going to be the BEST RTS EVER.
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As I did mention somewhere, more information thanks to the Producer of Stalin vs Martians can be read here.
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Awesome.
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Really awesome. Saw it on some google ads
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