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2 | [[caption-width-right:258:''[[TagLine The ultimate arcade strategy.]]''\ |
3 | ''[[TagLine The final battle of the sexes.]]'']] |
4 | ''Gender Wars'' is an isometric strategy game developed by The 8th Day and released in 1996. |
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6 | After eons of fighting between the genders, men and women have broken into separate factions, each using genetic engineering to create new followers, and waging terrible war upon each other. |
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8 | Upon selecting the side you wish to play (depicted as either clueless blondes who can't drive, or beer-swigging lazy oafs), you select a team of 4 for your missions, arm them up with guns and other assorted weaponry, and wreak havoc on the 'enemy' in this isometric ''VideoGame/{{Syndicate}}''-like game. |
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10 | Progress through the levels to the final conflict, collecting tanks and other assorted 'powerups' along the way, and watching the humourous cutscenes as you go. |
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12 | !!''Gender Wars'' provides examples of: |
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14 | * BottomlessMagazines: The warriors under your command will never run out of bullets. |
15 | * DoesNotLikeMen: The women's side will naturally hate men with a passion. |
16 | * DoubleStandard: In a game about men versus women, this trope is going to come up. Most of the humor is that ''everyone'' is a [[AllStereotypeCast negative stereotype]]. |
17 | * EverythingFades: Dead bodies fade out after a few seconds, while the pool of blood follows them a second later. |
18 | * HeManWomanHater: The men's side will naturally hate women with a passion. |
19 | * HollywoodHacking: Some missions are about infecting the communication network computers with spyware, through sending your troops to manually insert encrypted cards containing said spyware, while fighting through a bunch of guards and technicians, with a bonus objective being to loot a decoding card from a senior technician's body. One would expect the enemy to just create an all-new communications network in response instead of continuing to use something so obviously compromised, but it apparently works. |
20 | * {{Irony}}: The ending. [[spoiler: Regardless who wins, eventually a rebellion consisting of both genders overthrows them within a year]]. |
21 | * MadeOfExplodium: Even things like the solar panel arrays will still go boom after being riddled with bullets by a squad of your troops for a few seconds. |
22 | * ShoutOut: The armors worn by the men and the women are similar to that one from ''Franchise/MegaMan''. |
23 | * WeakTurretGun: The turret structures here go down after one hit from the explosive weapons. |
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