If you know me in real life, you also know that my newest obsession is the sci-fi wargame Infinity, produced by the Spanish company Corvus Belli. If this post gets enough attention, I might eventually post a full review of the game, but for now I will content myself with this announcement.
Corvus Belli gets it.
Here is the Asura:
Skintight white bodysuit. Perfect butt. Perky boobs. Flowing locks. What we have here is either a heroically idealized action hero, or a sexualized sci-fi babe, depending on what you think about the pose. For myself, I'm unsure. She is firing a heavy weapon, so backwards slant of her upper body might be intended to reflect how she struggles against the recoil. I'm inclined towards heroically idealized, myself, but if your opinion differs, I'd love to hear it.
Anyway, let's move on to the Deva:
As I admitted in my previous post in this topic, I'm not really equipped to judge mail attractiveness. However, it seems like what we have here qualifies. Strongly defined pecs, firm butt, nice arm muscles. Sure, he's a killer cyborg, and he's got the transforming-gun-arm-thing to prove it... but then again, so's the Asura.
The point is that the male Deva is certainly not far from the female Asura in terms of heroic ideal and sexiness (there are male models in skin-tight bodysuits, too, but I thought the Deva was probably a better example). These examples are both from the faction I play - ALEPH, the group-mind AI that runs mankind's economy and transportation network - but I encourage you to check out the rest of the Infinity line if you're curious. There are certainly models that will make you say "really?" However, it seems to me that those models aren't exclusively of male or female characters.
The best part is that male and female-desiring fans of Infinity aren't abandoning the game in droves complaining that photons that once touched a representation of pecs are now touching their delicate eyes. They love the models, they love the game, and they continue to buy the first to play the second.
Maybe change isn't so impossible, after all.
2 comments:
I can sort of see the point of skin-tight, it won't snag as easily on things, but the long flowing hair isn't really practical and really defeats the purpose... Big boobs are going to get in the way, but I suppose they could be used to distract the enemy?
That said, it is somewhat nice to see both sexes being equally idealized in ridiculous outfits.
Unfortunately, there are no rules for using the Asura's boobs to distract the enemy.
The only models who can do that use their eye makeup instead :-P.
And I guess it's ok, because if the Asura could distract enemy soldiers with their boobs, I'd be wrong. I like being right, or at least having a semi-right position to argue from.
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