Starship Troopers Media

Theres a new E3 2005 trailer here - Looks a lot better...

http://www.3dgamers.com/games/starshiptroopers2/downloads/

I don't care about the wanker line of "oh, it's 2002 graphics," but...

set maxbugs=40???

Where are my jillions and jillions of bugs?

After they're done with this game, the developers can get started on a game based on the movie The Fifth Element, another underacheiving action flick from 1997!

Try out that old bug defense mod for HL2, it's a lot better than this!

Funny how you'll see some sage post GAMEPLAY > GRAPHICS and everyone nods their head in agreement; but in a thread like this all you get is WTF NO AA JEEZ, GUN SKIN LOOKS BAD, OMG BEHIND THE TIMES!!1

Admit it gamers, you're all graphics whores :)

So long as it runs fine with a ton of bugs I'm down.

Since this is based on the movie and not the book... (and I think everyone will agree there is are fundamental differences between the two) and since the movie was a satire propaganda piece and the "heroes" were obvously

a) the bad guys
b) NAZIS!!!

does that make this the first game that lets you play as a fascist??

I guess having a Starship troopers game based on the book would just be too much work or something....seriously

I hated the movie....with a burning passion


they raped the hell out of the book.

WTF ever

I think the game looks alright. The graphics look a little dated, but from the looks of it, it seems as tho the gameplay will make up for it. Here's hoping for Co-Op multiplayer. This would make a kick arse LAN party game.

5. Give us some information about the development and potential or your SWARM engine

The technology we're using is all developed in house from the ground up, as other solutions on the market just weren't focused on the large number of enemies we need for the game to bring the movie to life. The engine is designed to give the game that "Bugs sir! Millions of them!" feeling that everyone remembers from the film.

We have a fully interactive environment, physics system and an advanced animation system allowing us to have some spectacular moments and some gruesome deaths. In fact, you will not have seen anything like this previously We're very proud of the 3D engine we have created. It's capable of all the DirectX 9 tricks seen in other games such as Doom III and Half Life 2.

The bugs look amazing because we use an anisotropic shader to give them a chrome and iridescent finish.

We have an atmospherics engine that allows us to dynamically set the time of day which alters the direction and length of shadows and even changes the colour of the light. We are constantly refining the engine, so expect to see even more enemies on screen in the final game than in the gameplay video available on the Starship Troopers game website.

Any other enviroments than that desert by day? C'mon

Guys, it's got crates in it: http://www.shacknews.com/screens.x/starship_troopers/Starship+Troopers/2/052605/052605_troopers_4.jpg

That's good enough for me.

Theres was an FPS in development waaaayy back around when the Movie came out, but it got canned.
The RTS came out in 2000 which was a poor game, but fun also.

OMG ... people complaining abot the graphics yet they circle jerk SS2. They are toned down on purpose so they canhave hundreds of bugs, something HL2, D3, or any other egnine out cannot do.

If it provides that kind of action then kudos for it. Tired of seeing pretty 3 monster killing action.

the trailer is the WORST I ever seen

it DOES really look like a game from 3 years ago... with some bump map as a face-lift.

and the animations are terrible, the bugs seem really small in scale, and the run-cycles make me think that all the soldiers are wearing nappies.

Do games always have to be of the highest visual quality to be fun or good games..........NO!

As long as this is fun, it's get's my $$!

So how old is this game? Are my memories of seeing screenshots for this game about 6-7 years ago false?

This would have been a lot more impressive using the engine from Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (which has a similar theme)

http://www.splashdamage.com/images/image_01.jpg

Ya know, fitting 300+ bugs on screen at once does require some graphical sacrifice.

Oh. Games look so nice in thumbnails, but when you blow 'em up they suck.

I don't care about the graphics, just don't suck!

how come the gun texture looks like rhino skin?

Lets all admit it, that looks like utter garbage. Maybe it will be fun though..

Looks like a mod for halflife1

so uhhh....

WHY DID IT TAKE THIS LONG FOR THIS GAME?!?

srsly.

http://www.shacknews.com/screens.x/starship_troopers/Starship+Troopers/2/052605/052605_troopers_4.jpg
Fuck! They killed Master Chief!

http://www.shacknews.com/screens.x/starship_troopers/Starship+Troopers/2/052605/052605_troopers_4.jpg
And again!

http://www.shacknews.com/screens.x/starship_troopers/Starship+Troopers/2/052605/052605_troopers_7.jpg
I wonder if we'll get to see a pile of bug corpses and that the other bugs climb on those... That'd be nice.

A little behind the times eh?

I guess they didn't have a powerful enough computer there to do a little AA on their screenshots.

funny package.