Re: Starship Troopers (was Re: Microid's 2024 Empire of the Ants demo came out yesterday!)

On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 07:54:16 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 20:15:24 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

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Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote:
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Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles
Did it right for the most part.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190198/

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An animated series? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-vMSgwwsw0 for the first episode? Hmm!

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Roughnecks was surprisingly good, even if it was dumbed down to make
it more palatable to the kiddies (and less objectionable to the
parents/broadcast standards committee)

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At least it had powered battle armor. That put it head and shoulders
above the Verhoeven movie!

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I finally watched it yesterday, but I wasn't impressed. I will stick with the first live action movie. :P
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Speaking of action games, were there any Starship Troopers ACTION games?

Yes.

There was a 2005 first-person shooter released by Empire called -ever
so imaginatively- "Starship Troopers". It... wasn't very good. The
level design was humdrum, it took too long to put down even low-level
enemies, and the overall design was just poor. Its visuals were
above-average for its time, but don't stand up that well today. The
only thing it did somewhat well was that it gave the impression of
there being a giant swarm of bugs out to get you (even though, in
practice, you really faced off against more than five or six arachnids
at anyone time. AFAIK, it's not available for digital download though
(and probably would have issues running on modern hardware/OS anyway).

(There was also a similar game released around the same time on iPad
but I never played that one).

More recently, there is "Starship Troopers: Extermination", which is a
multi-player FPS (there's a half-baked single-player mode too). It's
rather glitchy and -for reasons I can't easily express- just doesn't
/FEEL/ like "Starship Troopers." But it's available on Steam, if
you're interested.


Finally, while it's not of the action genre, there are also a couple
of action/strategy-titles. The first was "Starship Troopers: Terran
Ascendency", released in 2000. It's a tactical-strategy game, similar
in gameplay to the "Myth" games. It's aged (and not available for sale
anywhere) but I think it still holds up pretty well. A more modern
version, "Starship Troopers: Terran Command" (available on Steam) is
something of a recreation of that classic, but I didn't have much fun
with it.

There might be others, but if so they're pretty niche. For some
reason, the IP never attracted that much in the way of video games