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same as movie, at least there was naked chicks in the movie

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 73 / 96
Date: June 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

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.

GREAT GAME FROM MICROPROSE!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 35
Date: July 02, 2000
Author: Amazon User

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. enderzztop@yahoo.com

It will be a great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 36
Date: August 30, 2000
Author: Amazon User

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.

How should I know?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 33
Date: October 26, 2000
Author: Amazon User

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.

This makes up for the movie!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: November 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

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.

Starship Troopers Has Alot of Bugs!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 35
Date: November 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

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.

Starship Troopers is #1

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 19 / 21
Date: November 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is great. I love how it is a combination of the book and the movie. The movie was good, but I was disappointed that it didn't have the jump suits; but this game does. The game is great because it starts before the movie took place and it goes on after the movie ended. The game has great graphics and an excellent storyline. I thought that this game would be like most other strategy games, short, easy to beat, and hard to play. But this game is long, really hard to beat, and really easy to play. This game will be the next Half-Life.

troop it up

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 16
Date: November 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is a directive game in which you play head honcho, kinda like "Warcraft". You can choose from many permutations of weapons, troopers, and the skills they possess. The bugs are pretty fun to kill as well as difficult. Great graphics is an added plus. I played the demo then bought the game within the same hour. This game gives you hours of fun then makes you feel like you want to go squish some bugs of your own. If you liked "warcraft," or "starcraft," or both, then this is one that you can't pass up.

You've been warned.

great game!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: November 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This i great game.this game has great graphics and you can control about 12 people at the same time. The weapons are really cool you can see the bullet holes in the bugs.The only bd prt about the gme is in the biggining.it takes a really long time to install about 10 mins. So buy this game it is really good

Great game but needs lots of ram

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: November 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Ok, i bought that game after i had downloaded the demo. THe demo was great and i thought that STTA would be a great game. I was right and the game is excellent except for some minor things that Hasbro might have fixed. First, you start out as a Green trooper in the MI and you land on the bugs main planet in the first wave. This goes on and on and you kill a bunch of bugs with alot of different and cool weapons, upgrades, and so forth. This is a great game if you want to try out with real time stradgity games or if your an old vet. If you have less that 96 megs of ram, then this game will not run very snmoothly when there is alot of bug activity such as the whiskey outpost scene or some of the other big battles. If you dont run into those aot then this game is good but you must have alot of ram just o be surte that that game will run alright. Thta is why i down graded it from 5 stars to 4 stars because of the ram part. other than that this is an excellent game and i reccomend buying it if you are at least a little interested in RTS games. Good luck!

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