Starship Troopers Demo

I have some fond memories of the book from twenty years ago -- whoo! big guns aimed at big bugs! That and, in retrospect, the realization that Heinlein was a fascist. It's to Verhoeven's credit that he didn't take the book seriously, but it's a pity that he wasted so much time on the dumb romantic subplot. The only watchable parts of the movie are the CGI scenes. Someone should rip the DVD and just string them together. ;)

fucking goatse.cx bastards -- i had hoped never to see that shit again, but no. fuck you all.

I don't understand why people are knocking the demo around so much. This engine promisses to be a damn fine one. The play control is friggin sweet and the effects / graphics are stunning. I also like the fact that it runs smoothly on my TNT2U at 1024x768. I'm going to get this one when it hits the shelves. Can't wait to crack into it.

-SmArT1

What a stupid fucking review, and that page is such a rip off and lame it pisses me off. I don't like it. If you didn't notice.
I also wanted to state Mindstrip is the most amazingly hard CD to find, online and IRL...fucking A. Gonna try the demo, I wish you idiots would say what you thought of the game instead of talking about your fucking grandma (READ: post's 20 and below) and the rest is just mindless crap. I used to post here, when it was cool. Now it's still pretty cool.

NOT

Sigh...

If you read the book with any attentiveness, Heinlein's political biases are plain. He is in favor of people serving a central authority, which he calls Federal Service, and from that service all rights of citizenship flow. Not surprisingly, the only kind of service that we see in the novel (not counting the commentary he later wrote about "Starship Troopers") is military. Join up, carry a gun, and you're a citizen. Not exactly Rock the Vote, is it? ;)"

anyone stop to think that maybe it's *political satire*?

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(www.jcterminal.com)

Having served in the military, I think heinlen's idea was a good one. Fuck Diplomacy! Kick ASS!!! So all you little colleg-going snotnosed punks should grab an m-16 and fight! I don't hate black people, I just hate Hippies!

Xoc

Ok,OK so I was a snot nosed little college attending ROTC punk

...and I'm just kidding.

Hey, where's the nekked shower scenes?

Am I the only one who cant run this demo?

oh well I give up.


where is the rune demo?

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.

Ahh, just as I thought. The games looks more like the movie (90210 In Space) than the Heinlein classic. Where are the damn battlesuits?!

Read the book.

Like really.

I mean honestly.

Just read it.

Wow! It's.... um, Tribes, with a lame movie license.

i liked the movie...makes me wanna play starcraft

this was posted yesterday?

hey! review of the demo on www.jcterminal.com!

get it will it's still slightly warm!

It's 100% RTS.

If you like RTS, and like the idea of using space infantry instead of tanks/etc, you'll like it.

If you don't like RTS, you won't like it.

It looks nice, though.

I personally didn't like it.

just so everyone knows: those aren't marines. Those are Mobile Infantry, and they belong to the Army. At least, that's what they're SUPPOSED to be, god knows what the game THINKS they are called.

I couldn't get any sound from the game last might.

Yea it was kinda cool...short but cool

yeah, twas cool...

anyways yeah.. demo=good, although if I was on a 28.8, I'd wait for it to be included on a magazine cd or something...

Damn CDROM.COM sucks this morning. Only getting 350 K/sec...bastards.

Yes, I read that statement just after I posted. :)

Ahh well.

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


Damn chatty bitches! I should give this a try.

Oooh, more!