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[BennyBlanco]

Damn! I can't believe they got the Johny Rico actor for this. Game looks fine I guess.

Well ohh-rah! Another world premiere, FPS Starship Troopers Ultimate Bug War just unveiled its debut trailer during the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted, introduced by none other than Casper Van Dien, the actor who plays Johnny Rico in the movies. He seems to have lost an eye, but any sacrifice is a small price to pay to free humanity from the Arachnid menace.

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This is a retro shooter that just oozes fun. And actual ooze: there's lots of bug guts on screen, too. Once Rico's patriotic message is delivered, we see the desert of Planet P, where a heroic stand was once made at an outpost overwhelmed by the bugs. It's also where Rico earned the rank of Corporal after killing a huge Tanker Bug.

You'll be fighting using the iconic assault rifle from the movies, as well as a wide array of other bug-killing weapons, from miniguns to shotguns to rocket launchers and even a mech suit.

 

[Boss Mog]

Yeah... 3D retro doesn't look retro, it just looks bad.

 

[Alexios]

What's retro about it? That licensed games of the sort used to be crap?

Edit: oh I didn't maximize so didn't notice there's no texture filtering, hence retro? That looks wrong too, were there any games that were otherwise that advanced looking but lacked basic texture filtering? It's not like that's PS1 level geometry/resolution/effects, it looks beyond Half-Life era PC stuff.

 

[BigBeauford]

I love Starship Troopers almost more than any IP.


This just looks like shit and they slapped "retro" on it to put the lipstick on the pig.

 

[BennyBlanco]

I love Starship Troopers almost more than any IP.


This just looks like shit and they slapped "retro" on it to put the lipstick on the pig.

Yeah. If you're gonna make a retro shooter make it in Build Engine or something.

 

[SJRB]

There's nothing retro about this, it just looks like dogshit.

 

[John Bilbo]

The aesthetics remind me of Terminator: Skynet

 

[Kacho]

lol... oh no it look so bad. Was pretty hyped before watching the video. Fack.

Looks like they set out to make a game with decent graphics but failed miserably and slapped the retro label on it. Sometimes it looks like a PS2 game and other times a N64 game. Like it can't make up its mind.

 

[BennyBlanco]

I bet the most memorable and coolest thing that will ever come of this game is getting Johnny Rico for the trailer.

 

[Mr Hyde]

I'd rather watch the direct to dvd sequels than playing this.

 

[The Cockatrice]

a boomer shooter pixelated starship trooper game huh? Could be interesting. Most likely it wont, but will keep an eye out on it.