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Starship Troopers Demo

by Steve Gibson, Oct 18, 2000 6:14am PDT
Related Topics – Starship Troopers, Demo

Copied over from last night, since most people had problems getting the demo then. A playable demo of Starship Troopers from Blue Tongue (based in Australia) has been released on their website. Its a 3D tactical squad style action game based in the Starship Troopers universe (obviously). The game will be on shelves October 23rd in the US. The demo is about 60megs. I've gotten a hold of screenshots of the game which look surprisingly good, also you can get the file from mirrors at 3DFiles or 3DGamers

Click to enlarge Click to enlarge Click to enlarge more screenshots Hopefully this time around people who play the demo can post if its any good. I wasnt expecting much from a movie/book license game but those screenshots got me downloading the demo as I post this :)





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  • played it. its a really mixed bag. it is RTS, but you just cant pull back far enough to be able to send your troops around easily. you seem to be stuck up close to them, sort of limited to their view. haven't got the hang of ordering the groups around, your squads are bound to 1 and 2 i think, so hitting 1 will give you control over number 1 squad. then you can hit 'F' for the special weapons guys (which it will select) like the missile and grenade launcher guys, and then target some bug, or bug-hole. seemed ok. i just wanted to pull back just a little more so i could get a more tactical view, rather than have the map down most of the time, and trying to angle the camera so i could see in front of the troops. game looks good. will be interesting playing when masses of bugs attack you. and you can get armour for your troops. big hulking stuff... have to have another look at it. promising, kinda like homeworld, a different twist to the RTS genre. wouldnt mind jumping into a grunt and going commando on the bugs tho... 'rock'.

    Rad.