Starship Troopers

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Summary: same as movie, at least there was naked chicks in the movie
Review: Based on the 1960 Hugo-winning book of the same name by Robert Heinlein and the 1997 movie, also of the same name, the game Starship Troopers will combine elements of both. The 3D realtime strategy game is squad-based, allowing the player to control varying sizes of bug-killing teams. "People who read the book are book fans, and those who saw the movie are movie fans," said Thomas Zahorik, senior producer for the game. "We've tried to identify the best of both worlds and merge that together [in this game]. There's a lightheartedness in the movie that you won't find here," he continues. "This is more of a serious game. After all, it's a war game. Also, the book had several elements that the movie didn't have. The biggest one, which carries over very well to the game industry, is power suits, which is basically mechanized armor, and there will be 12 different types." There's good variety in the 20 or so missions. For example, one of the missions takes place on a populated beachfront, meaning that civilians will have to be saved while the insects are exterminated. For each mission, the player will have full control over loadout, including weapons and specialized abilities such as stealth infiltrator and combat engineer. "You've got a pool of troopers, and it's not a pool that's constantly refreshed; once they're gone, they're gone, so you need to do some thinking as you pack them out," Thomas said. "You really don't want to loose a trooper because the more missions they go on, the better they get."

Each trooper also has various stats and characteristics that are affected by their performance in the field. Attributes include strength, accuracy, telepathy, medical knowledge and speed. "There's a little bit of role playing involved, and it ties you to the characters involved, [especially] since you cannot just manufacture new troopers," he says. Once the troopers are ready for battle, each weapon comes into play differently. "Some bugs are susceptible to flames, for example. You would learn this by capturing a bug, bringing it back to your base and studying it. In this way, you slowly build a better arsenal."

We watched the game in motion for the next 15-20 minutes or so, and it definitely looks nice. The 3D engine, created by Australian developer BlueTongue, has respectable draw distances and can handle a lot of action at once. In the particular build we watched, Thomas was able to instantly beam in different bugs and troopers (which is basically a debug tool), and at one point the screen was full of troopers and insects, some ground-based and some airborne, all moving fluidly. Control of the game seemed relatively simple as well, with the mouse controlling the fully rotatable map and many of the other functions, such as troop formation and movement.

The game, set to ship in late August or early September, is another entry into the quickly growing world of 3D RTS games. What sets Starship Troopers apart is its license and unique mix of RPG and RTS gameplay. Without being able to manufacture new troopers on a whim, players will be forced to think on their feet or become insect fodder. The sheer number of insects and their different forms and abilities (some fly, some cloak, etc.) should make for some frantic RTS fun, just in time for school.

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Summary: It will be a great game
Review: Even though I haven't seen any screenshots of this Game I know it will be great, because Micropose made great games like Worms, Worms 2, Worms Armagedon, Mechwarrior 3, Roller Coaster Tycoon, Etc. All of those games were great sellers, so I'm sure Starship Troopers will be great too.

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Summary: Starship Troopers Has Alot of Bugs!
Review: Finally Received the game after delays caused by the demand for the PS2. First the game is massive between 70-400-500megs depending on the install. After I chose the typical install (400+mb) it took about 20+ minutes to finishing installing on my computer.

After I awoke, I followed the click-on instructions and then rebooted my system. When I tried to play the game it would hang about 5 seconds into the intro. Then total system crash!

I would have to reboot the system because my computer had totally froze. Since the system was caught playing part of the intro music it sounded like it was laughing at me...

After a night long battle of unistall-install-freeze-reboot I finally gave up. The bugs had won. This is not a fun game especially when the game laughs at you.

My system had a AMD K6-2 533, 20gig HD, voodoo3 3000 pci & 64mb of memory.

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Summary: Starship troopers
Review: Hey I can't wait to get the game... I found it for less then $20.00 somewhere else, sorry Amazon... Other then that the game seems to look like alot of fun.. so unfortunately amazon has lost out on this price war...

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Summary: How should I know?
Review: How can any "Customer" review the game when it hasn't even come out yet? I ordered it on August 4th (it was supposed to hit the stores on September 1st. It keeps getting set back and set back and set back and etc. When you send me the game I've waited for for so long, I'll send you an honest review. Until then I don't see how you can honestly expect an honest review. Case closed.

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Summary: This makes up for the movie!
Review: I didn't know this game was even being made until about three days before it was realeased and I was thinking that it was just another way for someone to ruin the book. I decided to download the demo and was acctually impressed. I went out the next day and bought the full version. I'm glad they decided to make a game to possibly make up for the really and I stress REALLY bad movie(yeah Casper van Dean HE'S a great actor:P). If you're looking for a good game to kill sometime give this one a try especially if you didn't like the movie and are a fan of the book.

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Summary: Game Companies Missing the Boat!
Review: I don't even know who owns the rights to this franchise any more but major game companies are missing the boat. The possibilities for this game and future ones are limitless (within sci-fi action and strategy gaming). There is reportedly a second movie coming out. Who could rightly say that the first movie wasn't a flawless B-movie classic. The first movie raised the bar on sci-fi B-movies to a point that has never been topped. I still play this game after I'm bored of all the new games I have. It was as well done (for it's time) as other classics like Doom and X-com: UFO Defense. This game has characters, villians, plots and possibilities that don't come close to the well-designed and fun but horribly backgrounded (not really a word) games like Halo and PlanetSide. Pick up a copy of this game but be wary of some of the potential limitations like the annoying perspective change when you lose a squad member. If a company has the rights to this game and wants an enthusiastic programmer and marketing personality get a hold of me. [e-mail] - Paul

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Summary: How worst can the word "bad" get
Review: I'm a grand fan of all sci-fi games, so of course when I seen starship trooper I was ecstatic! Usually, even when it says "operating system etc etc....." as usual I picked it up knowing or hoping that XP would take the game and run it. don't make the same mistake I did folks read what I got from the support at Atari inc.:

"Unfortunately, this game is not compatible on Windows 2000 or Windows XP as they are NT systems built on a different architecture that does not allow access the hardware in the manner that previous operating system had."

Sorry for the inconvenience.

So buyer beware and lover of the games!

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Summary: GREAT GAME FROM MICROPROSE!
Review: I've seen many picture and read many reviews of this game and it looks TERRIFIC! I am getting this game when it comes out and it seems like its going to be one if not THE BEST 3D RTS game ever made! It took over 3 years to complete and the movie was a BlockBuster HIT FILM of 1997 so, it should be the BlockBuster HIT GAME of 2000! It has great AI, graphics, and gameplay! The BUGS that you annihilate in the game are sooo realistic that you'll WET YOURSELF! Anyway, this seems to be a VERY PROMISING TITLE from Microprose for they have put a lot of time and effort into this fantastic game! Cheers Microprose! - Carlos Jr. 7-2-00. [e-mail]

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Summary: Best game eva
Review: If your into scifi games like Alien vs Predator 2 then you will love this game. You don't even need to love scifi stuff too because it is a great real time stratagy game. It is a very good game but sadly didn't do so well in the stors hence the reason why it is very hard to find this game any where.