Fancy roasting some spiders from Mars?
HandyGames newie will make David Bowie's backing band a bit nervous
Is there life on Mars? Sadly, if there is, it probably doesn't look like Gene Hunt from the BBC series of the same name – although that doesn't stop us hoping that Martians spend their time wearing big sideburns and nifty '70s threads, while throwing each other over car bonnets in a politically incorrect fashion. We can dream.
Killjoy scientists will tell you that the chances of Martians being at all insect-shaped is almost as unlikely. But don't mind them: what's the point of the Red Planet if it's not teeming with six and eight-legged freaks keen for some human-flaying action?
That, at least, is the premise for HandyGames' new mobile game, Sturmtrupp Mars – Operation Roasted Bugs. It's a real-time strategy game, and the only thing HandyGames has revealed about it other than that is that its plot is: 'mankind fights alien bugs on planet Mars'.
They don't say if you play the men or the bugs – the latter would be more fun in our opinion. It's looking good though, and from the screenshots we deduce there might be some building as well as bug-shooting.
While we hunt more information down, check out the game's trailer here.
