2nd Lieutenant Mira: a woman in sensible armor

2nd Lieutenant Mira - 203 Cadian Gaurd

I recently discovered Women in Sensible Armor over on Tumbler and I'm not sure that this sort of nerd feminism is anything new, but it certainly puts a fine point on the realization that all of us have made after playing through our first few RPGs.  And that realization is, why the hell would that chick be dressed like that to fight Orcs?

Now, this site certain gets it's share of traffic thanks to digital boobs and hot chicks in video games so I'd be a little hypocritical to say I haven't been guilty of the "digital male gaze" from time to time.

But still I was pretty gratified when I stumbled across this character in the recently released Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine.  Full disclosure, I work at THQ, so I should probably point out that I am a huge warhammer nerd and would have played this game even if I didn't work for the publisher.  But I am also going to give any sort of review.  But what I will give is kudos to the character designers who chose not to give 2nd Lieutenant Mira a cleavage revealing slit in here breast plate and chose to let her wear pants into battle.  She's even a pretty imposing figure when stood next to the emperors own champions, the Ultramarines:

Working at a video game publisher and playing through a lot of games co-op with my wife I find that I am often more than a little embarrassed by some of the crop up.

Take for example a character from the recently released Wii title Conduit 2.  She basically fills the same role in the script for Conduit 2 that 2nd Lt. Mira does in Space Marine, she's a tough military woman that the main character meets up with early on in the story.  She wears battle armor...but of course it's been designed  to ensure maximum "cleave":

Hell, even Red Faction Armageddon had a Kara, a "tough military woman the main character meets in Act 2" role in the script that 2nd Lt. Mira has.  Let's just take a look at her next to the main character for a second:

Sensing a pattern here?  As I'm writing this I'm starting to realize that there are two overlapping tropes here. One is the "cleavage armor" and the other is the "tough military woman the main character meets in Act 2".

Follow up post?  Most likely, but for now, let's all make the sign of the aquilla in honor of 2nd Lt. Mira and her sensible armor:

further down the rabbit hole with Fallout 3 mods...

Don't know what it is, but I'm really intrigued by all the Fallout 3 mods. Probably because I spent so much time with that game...on Xbox 360. I really wish XBox would support user mods. That'd be sweet. Anyway, here's some more sweet mods for Fallout 3:

Matsumi designed "Butterfly Bra" for Tekken 6's Zafina

Kotaku posted a set of new screens of the so-called "Butterfly Bra".

Apparently this costume was designed for the console port of Tekken 6 by Mutsumi Inomata who is a designer on Namco Bandai's Tales series.

Now, it's no secret that I'm a bigger fan of the Soul Calibur series, but I played enough of Tekken 3 on the PS2 back in my testing days to respect the kind of technical brawling that Tekken 6 will undoubtedly have on offer.

Kotaku, as I've complained before, makes these damn screen shots kind of hard ot get your hands on...that's why I'm linking them here for you.

First digi-boobs post of the new year!

>Well, my long lazy vacation is over. Back to the grind stone. Back to posting up Pics of Lara Croft! I know how to drive traffic! The punters can't get enough lara.

So here are some screens of the downloadable outfits available for Tomb Raider underworld through XBLA and the PSN store.








Source: Tomb Raider Chronicles (via Kotaku)