And, of course, you'll need to escort anonymous squads A and B up generic hills X and Y. There's the numbingly extended boss battle where you need to use a rocket launcher to bring the bug down - and extra rockets magically keep appearing again and again in convenient crates that just happen to be there. It's as if the developers took their ideas from the first pages of First-Person Shooters For Dummies but missed the chapter where it warns, "Avoid hoary clichés at all costs." There's the bit where you need to pick up some futuristic doohickey from a crash site, and - surprise - bugs come out of nowhere when you grab it.
The problem is that the twelve levels of Starship Troopers are mostly a snooze a few fun moments are overwhelmed by endless repetition and tired design ideas. Not exactly an original premise, but it'll serve. You're a sort of poor man's Master Chief, replete with snazzy armor akin to what you see the hero of Halo wearing. You play as a Marauder: an elite soldier called in to help the regular infantry when a vital Federation planet comes under bug attack. Even years after the movie's release, it's still perfect material for a PC shooter, right? On both levels, it was a garish visual extravaganza. On another level, it was a kinetic, gleefully violent film about futuristic soldiers trying to eradicate an army of giant alien bugs. On one level, the movie was a wry send-up of gung-ho militarism and fascism. Heinlein's novel Starship Troopers came out back in 1997. Bonus items may be unlocked when certain conditions in the game are met. After completing a single-player combat mission, the level may be re-played to generate a score and rank according to performance.
Up to eight people can team up online or by LAN and play through three deathmatch, co-op, or team deathmatch levels. Join the special forces of the mobile infantry as Marauder Zero Six in the single-player campaign mode, or start a bug-killing frenzy on the Internet. Players battle through 12 indoor and outdoor levels, including a secret laboratory, bug nests, abandoned mines, and outposts, to relieve planet Hesperus from the insect invaders.īlast up to 300 enemies at once with one of seven weapons, including a nuke launcher and intelligence grenades. Starship Troopers is similar to the controversial 1959 science-fiction novel by Robert Heinlein, in which troopers don powered armor and use advanced weapons to combat an evil, arachnid-like alien race commonly known as the "bugs." Nineteen types of creepy-crawlies show up in this first-person shooter, each with different strengths and weaknesses.
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