Don't Look Directly At It...
S vs. M is a great example of a developer and publisher that must have been very heavily into drugs. The premise is insane, and self expanatory. Martians invade, and Stalin, you know, that guy who is responsible for the deaths of roughly 21 million people, comes to the... rescue. Astounding.
The music, as it many have heard in the clips on the GS review, is punishingly bad and out of place. Strange Russian quasi-techno-pop suffuses EVERYTHING, and sometimes it's hard to tell when units are making some insane demand of you, or if that is just a song lyric. Of course, it doesn't matter; none of this matters because you just must NOT touch this game.
The graphics are busted... as far as I could tell, there IS no pathing... and it looks as though the "art" were done by a child with fingerpaints. Truly, only strong drugs could have convinced these developers that they were making a game, and not a train wreck. Only strong drugs could have inspired ANY publisher to... publish it. I know that it took some mild (legal) drugs to get over the experience of playing it.
The weird thing is, you can only play as the Russians. Now... what RTS lets you play as one side... and while NOTHING in S vs. M is "cool"... the usual tanks and troops are more-uncool, than giant martians. You know... the ones you never play as.
Oh, and this one time, "Grows On You" refers to the fact that like all fungi, this game will do just that given the chance and a dark moist environment. This is only the third time in my life on GS that I wished a score of "0" existed.