My first review on Rogue Trooper
Rogue Trooper is a third person shooter set in a sci-fi world. You are a soldier, but not an ordinary soldier. You are G.I rogue that is immune to all types of poisons, does not need air and you are just meant for eliminating the enemy. A chip is inside you, which pretty much is you (find out later in the story).
So, first you are launched from a pod and landing on this planet in the middle of a battlefield. While trying to meet with your buddies it shows you all the controls from, taking cover, shooting from cover, melee, stealth approaches etc. There are many moves you can do, making the game very fun.
The weapons are all in one. Your rifle has everything, from your basic rifle from sniper to shotgun to mortar a rocket launcher and a gun that creates a chain killing all the enemies in that lighting chain. Not only that, but your backpack that you carry around allows you to lay mines on the ground setting traps.
Throughout the game you may run and gun threw or do stealthy approaches. Obviously you know how run and gun works. There are a few options on stealth kills. For example, you can use a hologram of yourself that lasts for maybe 15 seconds. Enemies will shoot at it while you can come from behind and slit there throat or whatever random move he does. Traps work nicely too. Placing mines is a trap although loud alerting any enemies near by. Also set your rifle down attaching a bipod to the bottom. Once the enemy is close enough you can activate it and it will unload on your enemies. Unfortunately there are no vehicles in the game, but there are stationary guns allowing you to mow down enemies and shoot down flying bombers, which isn’t amazing, just a nice touch.
The A.I is pretty decent. They know how to take cover although sometimes you can toss a grenade next to them and none of them run away. Enemies range from regular soldiers, snipers, mechs, and machines that release robots that blow up if close enough and turrets with sensors on them. Even though they have a decent amount of opponents only a few enemies can be easily taken out.
The single player portion of the game is very short and can be beaten in 1 or 2 days depending on how long you play it. I am guessing about 5 hours to beat the game entirely. At least there is a multiplayer option including a few maps. All of them are co-op missions up to four players. You can ethier do progressive missions or defend the G.I mission. Progressive missions are going through the map reaching a certain point, which isn’t very challenging. Defending the G.I is a bit more challenging with two people, but having more than that especially up to four people is domination. What I mean by that is while playing with three other people we killed them off so bad it took around 3-5 minutes for a few more men to come. Enemies come from the air, the ground, snipers will be in the mountains, turrets will drop from the sky. Very chaotic and fun if only with two people. The game features in-game voice support, but oddly you cannot type? The multiplayer community is very small… hardly seeing anyone online.
Graphics are obviously not a huge thing in rogue trooper, but they are decent graphics. This also could be a good thing. Many PC’s will be able to run it and while gameplay is very fun you won’t worry about them. Overall Rogue Trooper is a very good game, gameplay is fun and exciting, but unfortunately short. Along with a few multiplayer maps hoping to soon be a map editor. So I will give Rogue Trooper for the PC a 7.8.