The Sovietborgs Are Coming | popgeeks.com
Spanish retro development team Retro Sumus, creators of the 2021 Dreamcast shooter Xenocider, have announced their next creation….Sovietborgs,
The game, in production now for multiple retro consoles, is a top-down 16-bit shooter set in an alternate timeline where the Soviet Union won the Cold War. Now they employ cybernetic squads in an apocalyptic world to maintain order. You control three Sovietborg units at once, on a mission to crush rebel forces as well as giant hideous monsters that are politically neutral and just like to eat everyone in particular. The game will use “rendered” graphics similar to the technique in Donkey Kong Country — it’s a lot more affordable to pull off today.
In additon to XenoCider, the team members of Retro Sumus have also been involved with other high-profile games for old machines, like Pier Solar, Ghost Blade, and the Dreamcast releases of Flashback and Fade to Black. Juanjo Martín (keyboardist and musical director for Morat) and Sebastián Abreu (Legend of the Four Winds, The Curse of Illmoore Bay, Eyra the Crow Maiden) are working on the Sovietborgs soundtrack.
- Old-school top-down gameplay inspired by The Chaos Engine and Gauntlet
- Pre-rendered visuals crafted with techniques used in Donkey Kong Country
- A killer soundtrack with vibes from Red Alert and Urban Strike
- Shmup-style bonus stages and massive, grotesque boss fights
There will be multiple versions of Sovietborgs — the plan is to release it for Genesis, Dreamcast, NeoGeo and MS-DOS, all of which had different graphical processors. Retro Sumus will launch the Indiegogo campaign for the game on June 25. Stay tuned and watch this state-approved trailer…
