Dystopian Bombers from Spartan Games
March 19, 2011 by beerogre
For those who may not have seen them... here are the new bomber releases for Dystopian Wars.
I'm not sure about Dystopian Wars. I like steampunk, but I can't get a handle on the scale of this game... is there someone who can convince me?
BoW Andy
I like my steampunk more up-close and personal than this game of great battles… And, so far, there has been no real steampunkish contraptions to speak of. Just large military crafts.
It’s just “league of extraordinary gentlemen” meets “captain sky and the world of tomorrow”, except you never get to meet the people operating the machines.
well have you seen the huge balloon/ aircraft carrier? that’s steampunk to me!
I didn’t think Dystopian Wars was “steampunk” anyway. It is being marketed with “steampunk” in the description because that is kinda a current cool thing, but the feel of everything is much more pulp or weird world war. They say in their own description that the Industrial Revolution happened decades earlier in the games world than in ours so the factions are Victorian while the technology is pulp/weird world war 1 or 2. Genre issues aside (as the “-punk” thing is something I could rant about for days) these planes look fantastic, only a slight bit earlier in the fictional… Read more »
I’d say it’s sort of a “weird world war I” feel, or “weird 30’s”…