Not everybody out there follows films as intensively as I do so let me sum up Iron Sky for you: Space Nazi’s. It shocks me that this isn’t already a game and it must shock the people over at Reality Pump because sooner than later, you’ll be able to get your hands on the video-game tie-in to this comic-sci-fi-historic-action schlock-fest.

Iron Sky was a movie released earlier this year about the defeated Nazi party of 1945 packing up and heading to the moon, with plans to return to Earth with a space fleet in 2018 and continue the work of the Third Reich. It was funded by Finland, Germany and Australia and although I haven’t seen it, I have been assured by friends that it is the sort of ridiculousness that I expect from my B-movies. As well as plans for a prequel and sequel (Hitler planning the moon excursion and being reanimated after the events of the original film, perhaps?) there are now plans for a video-game tie in.

Iron Sky: Invasion is being developed by German studio Reality Pump and will “the player in the pilot seat of defending Earth from a sudden Nazi invasion – from space.” with an arsenal of experimental space fighters.  Developer Miroslav Dymek comments how the studio wanted to create a space sim game blending political and tactical components, with the absurdity of Moon Nazi humour, which the press release shows off with abandon.

Iron Sky: Invasion will bear the major underlying theme of politics: everything, even defending your planet from “luna-r-tic” villains, requires skillful political maneuvers. You will need to know who you are fighting for, whose boots you are stepping on, and choose your friends, or more importantly, enemies carefully.

Is “luna-r-tic” a joke from the film or does it simply not make sense? Absurdist humor, although awesome, is difficult to get a handle on, in text.

The film’s director, Timo Vuorensola, explained that he’d “always known that Iron Sky needed a proper video game around the franchise, one where the whole complexity of the world of Iron Sky could be examined” which either has to be a joke or means I need to get out there and purchase a copy of Iron Sky right away.

Iron Sky: Invasion is currently due for a release on PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 on November 30th, 2012. It will feature optional stereoscopic 3D for those of you who like your Nazi’s with extra dimension.