The destruction was immediate, and – as you munched skyscrapers and swatted helicopters from the sky like flies – on a scale that dwarfed the petty slaps and kicks of other fighting games. Inspired by older monster movies like King Kong and Godzilla, you played one of three giant creatures (gorilla, lizard or werewolf) and was tasked with levelling two-dimensional city blocks. My first taste of this kind of brute carnage was with Midway’s classic arcade game Rampage. This is the history of environmental destruction. There is, however, an alternative history of violence - the kind perpetrated against hard concrete and cold steel as opposed to living things. Much of this violence is oriented towards other beings human characters (player or AI controlled), monsters, aliens and assorted creatures. From the very beginning, Spacewar! (1962) locked two players in deadly conflict. But our activity and progress has attracted huge and warp monsters that only wish to devastate and sterilize planets by destroying the whole way of life.For better or worse the history of video games is violent. For the first time in our existence we feel in harmony with everything. Now, humans are successfully colonizing nearby planets, using technology to adapt these inhospitable and hostile places. We are in the Terraforming age after saving our homeworld, Earth, which was collapsed by radioactive contamination and the depletion of resources. Whilst we can’t yet vouch for the quality behind the title, we surely hope that BadLand have managed to push things through to ensure that the Xbox One release of Mars: Chaos Menace doesn’t fall to the same issues that afflicted the PS4, Switch and PC launches. Coming with a price of £8.39, Mars: Chaos Menace on Xbox One should be something that becomes appealing to fans of both space travel and shoot ’em up madness.
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