Starship Troopers: the Real-Time Strategy Game
by Atari
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Product Summary
Brand: MicroproseFormat: CD-ROM
Release Date: 2000-10-24
Platform: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me
Model: 99595
Publisher: Atari
Product features:
- Inspired by the movie and book
- Equip Mobile Infantry soldiers in power armor
- Different armor types are suited to different tasks
- Squad and vehicle combat
- Vivid graphics
Video Game Reviews of Starship Troopers: the Real-Time Strategy Game
Customer Review: Highly recommanded to Fans of Starship Troopers Series
Summary: 4 Stars
From "X-Com, Enemies Unknown" to "Starship Troopers", I'm keeping an eye on Microprose's games.
Excellence of this game:
All 3D models and landscapes;
Extended human armoury & tech-edge, e.g. hi-tech reinforced armour suits, plasma weapons;
Extended Arachnids species (compare to the first movie);
360-degree-rotating camera;
Various battlefield positions across galaxy;
etc...and I'm impressed the game can be performed on Win XP properly, for its aged release date(A.D. 2000).
Drawback:
Poorly detailed 3D model;
No in-action-safe;
No detailed in-action-reminder for primary objective and optional objective;
No database of all elements present in game(weapons, starships, planets, bases & outposts, history & events, enemies);
You have vehicle-escort mission, but no vehicles(especially tanks or choppers)for your squad, so your men go anywhere on feet(except they have jump-jet-pack mounted armour suits), which prolong missions badly;
No real-action movies or CG films throughout the entire gameplay(except a short and single opening), even no ending movie when finished the game;
Soldiers cannot exchange armaments & equipments with each other during actions, so you unable to optimize the force when resource is limited;
Some elements in the game are generally excrescent, e.g. those psycho-specialists;
etc...
Conclusion:
If you're addicted to Starship Troopers Series, I strongly recommand it to you, purchase(or acquire this game via other methods)immediately! If you're NOT familiar to the series, go to the novels, movies & animations first, then get the game!
Description of Starship Troopers: the Real-Time Strategy Game
Based on the best-selling novel and sci-fi smash hit movie, Starship Troopers brings a cataclysmic invasion of giant insects to life on your PC!Usually PC owners fight to keep the bugs out of their PCs, but when Starship Troopers is released, a legion of real-time strategy fans will likely want to put them back in. Incorporating the best parts of the movie and the book of the same name, the game should please fans of both.
The developers at Blue Tongue could have made a simple action game with the same cartoon violence found in the movie, but they obviously got much of their design inspiration from Robert Heinlein's original book. That science fiction classic--involving a galactic struggle between a fascist human society and a cold, communist race of space-faring bugs--advanced the concept of powered battle armor. Essentially every soldier was the equivalent of an extremely agile tank, and Starship Troopers is staying true to this theme. Your Mobile Infantry soldiers in the game wear different types of armor, suited for various tasks, such as heavy assault or quick reconnaissance. Leadership is modeled in the form of squad leaders, and all the troops in your squads have many attributes that affect their performance. There won't be any generic grunts in this game. Several vehicles have also found their way into the game, so you won't have to rely completely on the infantry.
The game's graphics look like they were taken straight out of the movie, and the special effects should prove just as vivid and visceral. Starship Troopers will include other elements the movie was famous for, such as pyrotechnic air strikes and a sniper mode. Top all that off with psychic powers, several distinct environments, and a sharp-looking 3-D engine and you end up with a game we can't wait to get our hands on.
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