Stalin vs. Martians Review: The Martians Win

The concept of throwing historical figures into video games and thrusting them into oddball plots isn’t new. You can go as far back as “Wolfenstein 3D” which stared the world’s least favorite antisemite, Adolf Hitler, and it was a great game; despite it’s rather questionable theme, it still sold well. “Stalin vs. Martians” tweaks that same, basic, idea by throwing another historically famous genocidal maniac into a plot involving an alien invasion on his turf. From the start, it sounds like a decently stupid idea that has the potential to be a good game, and it would work even better as a Real Time Strategy game. However, after playing a hours of protecting Stalin’s motherland against aliens, using the National Anthem to inspire my tanks, and using the K.G.B., I can say that this is perhaps the worst RTS game I have ever played. If anything, this game should only be used in a game design school to demonstrate how not to design a RTS game. The game’s first problem showed up before I ev... Read more