Starship Troopers (video game)

Simply called Starship Troopers, this First-Person Shooter is based on the 1997 film version of Robert A. Heinlein's novel of the same name and was published in 2005 by Empire Interactive.

Set after the events of the movie, this game managed to be incredibly fun despite having absolutely no right to be. Of the nine weapons available, seven were rapid-fire, including the missile launcher. Five of those were just variations on the Morita Mk2 rifle seen in the movie. The Nuke Launcher also made an appearance, but rare ammo and ever bigger and harder battles meant it was often Too Awesome to Use.

Enemies came in two varieties: ones you couldn't kill because you couldn't hit them, and ones you couldn't kill because they had absurd amounts of health and armour and which could often only be hurt by attacking tiny, constantly moving weak spots. This also lead to bosses regularly taking over an hour to kill. Both kinds of enemies appeared in droves: the CD case boasts about the game's revolutionary SWARM engine being capable of fielding over 300 enemies at once, but apparently no one told Strangelite, the developers, that this didn't mean they had to always have 300 enemies attacking you at any one point. Expect body counts well into the thousands even in the first level.

Cutscenes consisted largely of footage taken from the films, which in turn led to the majority of the game locations looking identical to film locations, despite being allegedly different places.