Starship Troopers (PC)

I was looking forward to this game coming out as I had read the book watched the film and thought great a chance to kill a the bugs myself, unfortunatly I was dissapointed. The game itself takes place after the events of the film and the war is still raging on, you play a soldier although you do not get a name for him who is meant to be an elite soldier. It is a first person shooter game and a very poor one at that even for fans of the film as you have to wonder at times if the writer even watched the film or read the book. The bugs are pretty easy to kill, the AI is bad, and the game is fairly easy to complete and you really do not want ...  Read the complete review

Being a huge starship troopers fan, from reading the book to watching the movie, collecting the action figures and all, I was quite ecstatic to have found this game. Yes a game! The game caters to the visuals and concept of a storyline that would vaguely resemble the world of starship troopers but not much else. You are Soldier X which you name yourself, a random platoon of many in the great arachnid war. You are given a couple dozen troops all with the private tag on them and you begin your story with a training mission. You can equip armors and weapons to troops before combat and as troops raise in ranks more powerful armors are ...  Read the complete review

"We're going in the first wave...means more bugs for us to kill. You smash the entire area, you kill anything with more than two legs! Do you get me?!" "We get you sir!" It's absolutely classic sci fi - fledgling human race is beginning to spread across new planets when BAM! they bump into voracious army of numberless and extremely aggressive aliens with huge claws and lots of people die and there's a big war with lots of space ships and laser guns. And yet, somehow, for all the clichés that seem to appear in Starship Troopers it really is a fun story. I have to say I really enjoyed the film, and although I ...  Read the complete review