A great movie . . . turns into a dissapointing game . . . *Lengthy Review*
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Starship Troopers, when you hear this name... you think of the one of the greatest Sci-fi movies ever made. But when it comes to the games... you think different, way different. Starship Troopers HAS SO MUCH potential, but the developers just hasn't felt that area too much. When you first play the game, you will have fun, no doublt about it. But as you play through the game... you will feel let down.
The gamplay of Starship Troopers is pretty simple and basic. You walk around, follow a trail and shoot bugs. But this is one thing the developers really did good on, there was lots and lots of bugs on one screen at once.
However, the AI in the creatures was good... well, compared with the movie's standards. The bugs AI has one purpose, to kill. The bugs will just charge at you and attempt to kill you and of course... they fail. The one thing that could have been changed was that in the level Outpost 29, when the bugs swarm the outpost, the bugs would jump on the side and come up and just attack you and just go back down and do the same exact thing over again. The marines were NEVER pulled over, the flying bugs never came and took off heads. Dissapointing. While you play through the storyline, you are actually really never forced to fall back. And when you get the Carbine, you can just mow down over a hundred bugs and keep moving. You were over twenty times more powerful than the bug and the game just got boring after awhile.
A minor plus to the game is that there was alot of different enemies and weapons. But the fact that most of all the weapons were the same but each had something different on the weapon, example: scope, grenade launcher, ect. There wasn't alot of different things to choose from. Also, the fact that some bugs can have 'Bullet Proof' armour is just retarded.
The storyline is about one lone soldier named a Maurader. Or a super soldier in a way with special armour and has a rechargable shield. You can be put unto the battlefield at anytime anywhere. You first start out landing on the dirt in a canyon, and its night, with about thirty or so comrades around you. You push forward and move into battle, and here you get your first kills. The assualt rifles are powerful, and are personally too powerful. The bugs has little or pretty much no strength at all. It only takes a couple of shots to bring down one of the bugs, very disloyal to the movie.
As you beat one mission after another, you will end up seeing actual clips from the movies from Starship Troopers. The footage is not very good either, its almost like its in low-qualtity form when they ported it. The fact that they didn't put enough effort into creating a new story with in-game cenematics is just dissapointing. They should really just sell the rights to this game as quickly as possible.
The storyline is very lengthy though, the only good thing about the storyline. You will end up seeing that your Marines are very helpful because they are hard to die, something extremely terrible is that there can be over ten bugs surrounding, and I mean surrounding one Marine; it would take the bugs over a minute or two minutes for that lone Marine to die. And dies so simplistically its laughable. He falls to the ground. Movie fans, such as myself, will be greatly dissapointed by this feature because why? We want to see some marines get mutalated. In the movie, you see blood, you see gore, you see limbs flying; in the game: You Do Not See Any of that.
The developers took off the Online mode because of all the bad reviews the game got. When I played online, I experienced some heavy lag all the time. The only thing that was close to being a little fun was the co-op mode which actually doesn't last long though since its too easy. The deathmatch mode I didn't even try due to fact the online mode didn't even last long. Nor did alot of players play online because they didn't like the game. The best thing for the developers to do is sell the rights for this game to some larger company that can actually create a good game. You know, maybe Ubisoft, or Activision or even Microsoft Game studios.
The graphics in the game is average, nothing near amazing or nothing near special. The blood in the game is bland and looks terrible. The body parts look poorly done and is squared. The environment is boring and simple. The characters are just plain ugly to look at. The good things is that the weapons and bugs look pretty decent. The detail in the weapons and bugs wasn't too bad; it was fair.
The sound is the worst part of the game, absolutely terrible. The voice acting was laughable funny due to fact it was so bad. The weapons sound weak and multiple gameplay bugs can have you not hearing your weapon at all. The bugs sound horrible and the marines screams were absolutely pathetic. I actually didn't think a game could have such bad sound. I was wrong.
So, if you enjoy Starship Troopers; You 'may', notice how I said May not will, like this game. And if you have never seen the movies or read the book, just pretend this game doesn't exist.
+ Lengthy Singleplayer
+ Lots of bugs
- Sound is terrible
- Voice Acting is terrible
- Marines don't die like in the movie
- Multiplayer is boring
- Gameplay is repetative
- Lots of gameplay bugs