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''[[UsefulNotes/JosefStalin Stalin]] vs Martians'' is a real-time strategy game. Its designers deliberately aimed for the SoBadItsGood B-movie aesthetics, deliberately attempting to emulate famously bad alien movies such as ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace''.The game was panned by critics, sold poorly, and today occupies several 'worst games of all time' lists. The publisher has since done its best to pretend the game doesn't exist, and copies of the game are [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes effectively impossible to find]]. It is technically an "Operation Barbarossa" expansion/mod for the video game ''Blitzkrieg'', but dropped and converted half-way.
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!!Tropes
* ArbitraryGunPower: The Soviet units are a random mishmash of various armored vehicle models cribbed from [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII WW2]] games and given arbitrary stats; there is absolutely zero relation between a unit's RealLife armament and the amount of damage it does in the game, nor is there any relation between actual speed and ingame speed, actual armor and in-game hitpoints, etc.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Players could eventually field a 50 foot tall Stalin, who is supposedly [[BlatantLies "as big as the man was in]] RealLife".
* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: [[spoiler: Your troops are totally fine in the missions set on Mars later in the game, without any space appropriate clothing]]
* CaptainErsatz: There are multiple of these:
** Confetti Martians that resemble [[VideoGame/{{Pikmin}} Pikmin]].
** Green three-eyed Martians like the aliens from Franchise/ToyStory but bodies like Mike from Franchise/MonstersInc
** Red, floating one-eyed Martians that look like [[VideoGame/{{Doom}} Cacodemons]].
* CruelElephant: There are elephant-like martians that breath fire.
* DancePartyEnding: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=OwEPJll622I#t=262s The credits]] feature a cartoon Stalin cavorting about to Russian techno music.
* FogOfWar: Standard Fog, you are unable to see enemy activity in areas of the map that you do not currently have units in.
* GameMod: Though sold as a full game, it's actually a mod of the [=WWII=] RTS ''VideoGame/{{Blitzkrieg}}'' - and not a particularly thorough one, either; all of the alien units are reskinned default units, the maps are ''Blitzkrieg'' multiplayer and skirmish maps with 'alien' decorations randomly scattered around, and the interface is effectively identical, except that most functionality has been removed and a few things have been shifted around.
** It is said that the game started as an early-stage (invasion of Poland to Winter 1942) Eastern Front mod, but the artists for the German and Polish factions pulled out.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: The final boss of the game is [[spoiler: Hitler's giant head with tentacles coming out of it.]] There is absolutely no explanation given for its existence.
* ImpossibleItemDrop: Martians drop some stuff one wouldn't expect.
* LittleGreenMen: Martians in this game.
* MissionControlIsOffItsMeds: An apparently unintentional example - the mission briefings in the single-player campaign have absolutely ''nothing'' to do with the missions themselves, giving you advice that doesn't work, objectives that don't exist, and information about the upcoming mission that turns out to be totally false.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: [[spoiler: They are basically zombified versions of Stalin himself; they have green blood, can be killed with guns and axes, and young women seem to be their favorite prey, though they don't seem to be infectious. However, they only appear in the second intermission.]]
* SoundtrackDissonance: Virtually the entire game is set to various electronic tunes and... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEgNolIXz2w campy]] [[https://soundcloud.com/jerry-lenin/11-glam-rock-in-the-city Russian]] GlamRock?
* StockSoundEffects: When an objective gets completed, a stock jingle plays.
* StupidJetpackHitler: [[spoiler: The final boss, Hitler's head atop a pair of mechanized spider legs.]]
* TreasureIsBiggerInFiction: Sometimes gigantic spinning coins are dropped by enemies.
* WelcomeToCorneria: There is precisely one recorded voice clip for every action a unit type can take, and there are only two unit types, so you're going to be hearing the same thing a ''lot''. The most common and infamous is the voice clip your infantry make when killed, a completely deadpan, monotone, bored-sounding "I'm dying."
* WeHaveReserves: ''More cannon fodder'' is announced when reinforcements appear.