Year 1942. Summer. The martians suddenly drop off their butts somewhere in Siberia and attack the glorious people of Holy Mother Russia. It is a hard time for USSR as you might know from the history books if you ever attended school. The situation is really ***** up, so comrade Stalin takes the anti-ET military operation under his personal control. The operation is a top secret and virtually nobody knows about the fact of extraterrestrial intervention.

That's the plot of new RTS game being worked on by three Russian studios who have joined creative forces: Black Wing Foundation, Dreamlore, and N-Gage. They are trying to make a strategically serious RTS, with one of the odder story lines in recent memory. This alternate-universe WWII game probably only compares to Operation Darkness, the upcoming tactical RPG from Atlus for the Xbox 360 that features the British Special Forces, spells, tanks, dragons, vampires and werewolves (and you can check out a new trailer of this game over here, in our videos section.)

Stalin Vs. Martians will not have typical RTS bases (with infantry barracks, tank factories, etcetera.) Instead, it'll take a page out of the more action-focused RTS's like World In Conflict. You can buy all of your units and special abilities  at anytime, without technology trees and things like that.  Ammo is automatically resupplied, and most of the aliens you shoot leave power-ups, such as temporary boosts to speed, armor, and medicine.

The website for the game is funny pretty in parts, and can be accessed here, in both English and Russian versions. "Under the Stalin's command we must take control over Red Army forces and kick some alien ass [and] what shocks the most is that the martian forces look like a gay parade of Nintendo-styled cartoonish creatures," say the developers.

The alien invasion is targeted for a Fall release.