Not to mention that the actual damage a grenade does seems to range from "not much," to "broken. Every time we launched a grenade, the explosion would simply fail to register with the aforementioned debris.
Damn bugs whacked this game, Johnny. That's hardly the only glitch you'll encounter while playing. The stability of Starship Troopers is highly suspect. Every now and again the game will simply crash out to Windows for no discernable reason, and some of the unlockable video clips in the extras menu will crash you out every single time you try to view them.
There are issues you'll see in-game too, like the aforementioned random physics disappearances with the grenades, and occasional situations where soldiers or bugs will just get stuck in the environment and start doing incredibly wacky things.
It's quite clear that more QA time was needed to get this game running properly, and that time wasn't taken. Starship Troopers does offer a basic multiplayer mode, with deathmatch, team deathmatch, and cooperative missions available. Unfortunately, the odds of you finding someone else to play it against are somewhere in the negatives.
We spent days trying to find an online opponent for some kind, any kind of multiplayer match, and found little more than a desolate wasteland of a server browser.
But considering how bad the offline play is, it's hard to imagine there would be a particularly thrilling multiplayer experience based off this gameplay. Starship Troopers also happens to be a severely ugly looking PC game. The models for Federation soldiers are laughably awful, consisting of the same two or three horrific-looking faces spread across a single squad, and a scant list of cheap-looking animations.
The bugs all look the same, of course, but they don't even look particularly good or fearsome. They just look like cheap interpretations of the same bugs you saw in the movie, and the ones that are new just look dumb.
Environments are a little better, at least the ones set in daylight. Everything done at night is simply too dark, and there are no gamma settings in the options menu. There are certainly games that can do dark, unpleasant places well--take the recent King Kong game, for example--but Starship Troopers doesn't, and what you're left with is a confusing, ugly place to be.
While it is reasonably impressive that so many bugs can attack at once, it'd be a lot more impressive if the frame rate didn't go to hell every time a group of bugs got up in your grill. It's also not particularly impressive considering how insanely long the premission load times are, not to mention that every time you load a quicksave you have to sit through the same loading time again. Even the process of making a quicksave hangs the game for four to five seconds.
Is it a man or a mutant? Thanks to this unpleasant graphics engine, we may never know the truth. The audio is simply a cacophonous mess. The voice acting is as bad as you can fathom, and it's not that wonderful brand of cheesy dialogue from the movie, either. It's just painfully uninspired work, and the actors all ham it up really poorly. Linked Items.
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The goals unfold sequentially, and you complete them one at a time. Though you can break your units into squads, move them into formations, and control each one separately, there's very little reason to do any of this.
Your troopers have a much greater chance of surviving if you keep them in a tight knot and move them around as a single group. The levels generally take 20 to 40 minutes to complete. There is no in-mission save feature; you can only save your progress between levels. Depending on your tolerance for frustration, this may create tension but will more likely make Starship Troopers a tedious chore to play. For instance, one level concludes with a sequence in which you must defend a military outpost from an onslaught of bugs.
It's a difficult task, but it's exciting. Unfortunately, it takes place after more than ten minutes of relatively uneventful marching around. The defense portion itself is one of the few times the game really requires some tactical thought, and there are several different ways to approach it.
But the amount of time required to get to this point makes redoing the level more annoying than fun and acts as a real disincentive to play it again just to test out some different strategies.
What's even more frustrating is that there's no way to skip the cutscenes during a mission, which makes replaying any of the levels even more of a trial.
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