Starship Troopers Demo

Review of ST demo

I've got to say that after playing this demo for about 40 minutes, i can say it is average at best. I didn't find myself having any fun except for the very start of the demo, where about 25-30 bugs attack the post, In the film there were about 1000-2000 bugs, But nevermind i understand that to program that it would eat most machines away.

The weapons feel extremely weak, your standard M4 Assault weapon has unlimited ammuntion. This to me is because the bloody gun is so weak and when your shooting at the "soldier" bugs it feels like your trying to take down king kong with an air rifle. The assault weapon also packs a grenade launcher which also was completely useless and i might aswell have thrown pancakes at them to kill the soldier bugs. Your other choice of firepower would be to use the light machine gun. Yes it was very light indeed, the weapon has around 100 bullet clip and after shooting at the bugs for a while it still hadn't brought them down. The shotgun on the other hand is the complete opposite and can take the bugs down in 1 or maybe 2 shots.

Weapons overall were tripe apart from the shotty.

Graphics weren't to much to write home about, the facial animation of the characters was completely poor for todays standards. ie, Half life 2, Doom 3. They basically looked like characters from operation flashpoint. Which in the year 2001 was a good thing, because it looked good back then. But for a game of this calibur it should be more detailed. Textures were bland and basically consisted of a yellow colour, which grew kind of boring to look at after a while. The Creatures looked average aswell, better than the rest of the game though. Big, colourfull and bled pretty well. Other than that the graphics were quite poor.

Sound was nearly as bad as the graphics. The orchestral music made sense, but obscured the gun sounds to much. I mean i don't have surround sound for my PC but i'm pretty sure it wouldn't sound a whole lot better anyway. The soldiers didn't say hardly anything, and the tutorial messenger had the standard "Pick up the mines and ammo" voice that starts to grate after a bit.

The gameplay was boring, aside from the start where the bugs invaded the base. It was nowhere near as intense as the movie was where there were literally thousands of bugs piling up to get over the base. But i never played through to the end as it just became a chore and the mouse lag was horrible. So with the bad weapons, it made the game even more bland and boring to play and watch.

I'm pretty sure most people agree with me on this one. But maybe if i had got to the end of the demo it might have picked up a bit more. I'm guessing it didn't but i got to the part where you get the mines and power cell then about 15 bugs chase you about. Hope this has helped in your decision to download. I wouldn't reccomend this game at all, but if your looking to try it, make sure you have a fast connection for downloading, i waited 30 minutes download time and i wished i hadn't

What's wrong with this demo you ask? Nothing!

Anyone can load up any game or demo and nitpick the shit out of it, and without a doubt you'll find stuff in every game that you'll feel is wrong or out of place. You also kill your fun gaming experience analyizing and nitpicking them as well.

This game is about swarms of bugs and you being in the middle of that swarm shooting to kill. That's all it should be, and that is fun to me. I don't need crazy facial animations, or great voice acting, or even super duper detailed textures. If it's fun and immersive, thumbs up from me. For a moment there I didn't like the fact that you couldn't run, but then again, throw on over 100lbs. of equipment, and I doubt you're running anywhere.

I guess you have to have played the original DOOM's back in the day to appreciate hordes of monsters coming at you at once.

In the end, everyone just has their own taste in fun. Sure this demo lacks a lot of flare found in recent games, but I like this one nonetheless.

If I had to guess the developer based on the two screenshots, I would say Derek Smart. It has the same "circa 1995" feel to it as Universal Combat.

Well, give it that the game does have its technical bugs, what game doesn't? Especially for its first release (Demo). One thing that did annoy me with this game was that as soon as I picked up the mines, I heard a loud high pitched noise, then my PC rebooted itself.

I also saw someone comment on how hard it is to kill a bug with your conventional weapon. Well, if you watched the movie, you'll see that it takes quite a few rounds to take a bug down, especially the yellow tougher bugs.

I'm not talking GOTY here, but if they can work out some of the bugs and tweak things up a bit, they may have a solid shooter.

Dammit this game doesn't even start for me. Just got a blank window. But judging from your comments here I shouldn't bother with this anyway.

First Fifa 06 and now this, do companies even test their demos anymore?

this would be pretty awesome if it was also released in 1997

This demo is terrible. Its as if they forgot that some people dont run a PIII 1GHz.

I have an Amd Athlon 64 3200+ and a GeForce 7800GTX OC, and the game either needs the options set so that there are model shadows on high which brings the framerate to a virtual crawl, or it gets disabled and the game runs at a speed that is about 3x too fast. It just plain sucks.

A waste of 100mb to download, definately a total waste of good internet at 400+mb

Please people, tell me it doesn't suck. :(

What a steaming load of crap!

Mouse lag is terrible and gameplay feels about as smooth as MOH:PA 1.0.

I didn't think I could've hated anything more than this movie (one of my all time least favorites) but this demo gave it a run for its money.

Come on people! I need important information!
I'm stuck at work and can't find out myself...

Does it have the shower scene or not?!!!!!

Somewhere out there, a poor unsuspecting 12 year old will actually get their mommy to buy this for them.

anyone else have crashing? I get up to the crash site (sometimes before or after this part), the game freezes, I hear a loud buzzing sound for 10 seconds, I get a bsod saying machine_check_exception and My system restarts. I have an Athlon 64 FX51/1 gig ddr/7800gt/audigy 2 zs. Most other games work fine, and i am running nvidia drivers 77.77. Am I the only one who gets crashing?

Largest diamondplate in the universe.

Okay guys, is it worse than Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation?

too many bugs

Am I crazy, or wasn't there already a release of a Starship Troopers FPS demo, like 2 years ago?

I remember a not so very good game and you stand on this platform/base and the bugs run at you and you shoot them. (Well, really you are defending the outpost, but that means standing on the base and shooting the bugs that come.)

Maybe it was just a video, but I swear it was a demo. Oh well.

What the heck are you supposed to do once you pick up the stuff from the crash site and get eaten alive by the 4000000000 bugs they send at you?

i would have prefered more something like this:

http://www.tmihost.com/starship_troopers/StarTroop_2.rar

that's some of the worst mouse lag i've ever seen in a game. It was unplayable. :(

steve gibson drinks lemon nestea!

damn, i actually liked the strategy starship troopers game that came out a while back. pretty intense stuff. it had some bugs but it twas still a blast. this one had lot o potential.

ugh. awful demo... movement and controls are really bad, and it just wasn't fun. Graphics were so-so (definitely not Doom3 as was compared in another post), but who cares when the game sucks?

wow, this is miserable. Don't waste your time at all.

Would you like to know more?

Excellent Steve!

Weird. When I control my guy (keyboard and mouse buttons/movement) it takes a second before it registers on screen. But in the menu screen it's fine. Uninstalled.

The Moosiah's Official Review --

NEEDS MORE SERIOUS SAM 2

Finished the demo on hard. Overall its a positive meh. The gfx are good enough, and there are some areas that are fun, but the sounds,music, voice acting, scripted sequences suck. Lots of stuff feels out of place, and its all fairly bland. This being said, the end sequence is decent. DL it and give it a shot, it nothing special whatsoever, but its a decent way to kill 14 minutes.

Coop is going to be the main draw for this game.

I forgot how much the "Bugs" looks liked HL2 Sand Lions.

This is awful. The game doesn't look very good, despite running quite poorly on my system. The gameplay feels uninspired, and the scripted sequence(s) seem totally out of place.

Avoid this at all costs.

I hope this doesn't suck. It's supposed to have coop out of the box, I mean, coop space marines vs. hordes of bugs. I want to support it on that premise alone, but the gameplay vids I've seen so far looked, eh, rough.

Quick Review:

2 Thumbs way down. Graphics are somewhere between Quake 2 and Quake 3. Sound effects are pathetic. Gameplay is extremely trite and unexciting-->OMG shoot the aliens and gather power cells! I can't believe the publisher has wasted so many years backing this POS. They should have released it years ago when it was still somewhat up to par technically.

Oh well. Uninstalled.

It does suck... Its like its unfinished or something. I mean, it is I guess, but something that sucks that hardcore wont be fixed by the time for release. I had alot of sound problems, and the AI was just... well... stupid.

This is one game that Ill never, ever, buy.

Can't be worse than the Fifa 2006 demo?

I smell something

Someone post a review!

Oh god, I'm afraid.