Gender Wars
Gender Wars is a real-time tactics action game for DOS developed by The 8th Day and published by GT Interactive Software and Sales Curve in 1996.
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.
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 Syndicate-like game.
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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DeveloperThe 8th Day
PublisherGT Interactive Software, The Sales Curve
ReleasedMarch 1, 1996
StatusReleased
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About This Game
Set in a dystopian future after decades of political correctness and equality, humanity has fractured into two warring factions divided along gender lines, locked in a conflict known as the Gender Wars. The Male faction embodies every crass jock stereotype — obsessed with alcohol and aggressively manly pursuits — while the Female faction echoes the Valley Girl archetype, fixated on fashion and femininity. Each side raids the other to steal cloning material and capture the enemy leader. Players choose a faction and fight toward dominance, though the narrator eventually reveals that both sides are overthrown in the end — brought down by a rebellion of men and women who chose cooperation over conflict.