Starship Troopers Demo [Archive]

RainOfTerror

09-01-2005, 10:29 AM

Developed by Strangelite Studio, the game is based on the Starship Troopers movie in which you will take the role of an elite 'special forces' trooper in the Mobile Infantry spearheading the assault against thousands of intelligent enemy bugs, emulating the best scenes from the movie and a whole lot more!

Empire has released a Starship Troopers demo where you must defend Outpost 29 from a swarm of bugs, while also venturing out to a crash site to help restore power.

Mirrors:Worthplaying (http://www.worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=27917)

KarmaGhost

09-01-2005, 10:36 AM

Bah, all three mirrors are slow or don't work.

/waits for filerush

Chagrinful

09-01-2005, 10:42 AM

Worth a try! Worth the download thats for sure to see if this effort is maybe better than the last *crosses fingers*/waits for filerush or any other torrent also. Although I find compared to other torrent sites filerush and even 3dgamers torrents are slow as shit :(.

Justin_McElroy

09-01-2005, 10:52 AM

Does this title involve any...oh, you know...ahh, Dina Myers?

StANTo

09-01-2005, 11:01 AM

www.3dgamers.com - login with gamespy ID, go to 'fast free for registered users'

bingo.

Klade

09-01-2005, 11:06 AM

Anyone have impressions or thoughts about this one? The screen shots have been less than impressive. Is it better in motion?

XxSATANxX

09-01-2005, 11:10 AM

Somewhere is a trailer based on game play. Looked good to me. Happy to have a demo.

Intruder

09-01-2005, 11:14 AM

I guess I was the only one to enjoy the RTS Starship Troopers game :) Oddly, the homepage for that game disapeared after just a few months.

Zanzibar

09-01-2005, 11:23 AM

Does this title involve any...oh, you know...ahh, Dina Myers?

In-game cutscene with Dina Myers, Denise Richards, nekkid, in the shower. Together. That's the only way I'm gonna buy this. The movie was just too painful of a bastardization of the book for me to buy it for any other reason.

mr. murphy

09-01-2005, 11:26 AM

True. But it was still a fun movie.

A-Team

09-01-2005, 11:29 AM

We have it up for those of you who haven't already received it.

Varsity

09-01-2005, 11:33 AM

I saw a video a while back and it looked dire. Anyone played it yet?

Malovech

09-01-2005, 11:33 AM

In-game cutscene with Dina Myers, Denise Richards, nekkid, in the shower. Together. That's the only way I'm gonna buy this. The movie was just too painful of a bastardization of the book for me to buy it for any other reason.

Bah Zanzibar! Starship Troopers is classic Verhoeven. Brutal violence, nudity and tongue-in-cheek social commentary, it reminded me of his RoboCop days (sans-nudity). Thankfully he didn't slavishly follow Heinlens's neo-con military wank-fest and decided to put his own mark on the story.

vladthedog

09-01-2005, 11:57 AM

I loved both the movie and the book... for completely different reasons of course :) and i've actually been looking forward to this game.. now if the stupid demo wil get downloaded (been having problems with the WP and 3dgamers, so thanks A-Team... i'm getting killer speeds with that torrent)...

KarmaGhost

09-01-2005, 12:01 PM

We have it up for those of you who haven't already received it.Ask and ye shall receive!! Whooo!!

Grimgrock

09-01-2005, 12:10 PM

The movie is similar to the book in title only. Everything else was scrapped in the name of action. The DVD inside jacket pamphlet talks about why they made the changes they did. If I hadn't read the book, I'd say it was a decent action movie with horrible acting. But because I did, it gets **1/2 out of *****.

XxSATANxX

09-01-2005, 12:28 PM

Thank U Filerush got mine in 20 min.

StANTo

09-01-2005, 12:36 PM

Mmm. I think this game is an experience best shared co-op. Performance is poor on my 1.91ghz, GeForce FX 5600XT with 1gb ram unless you turn all the detail down and off.

Kiss high quality audio goodbye with it's near necessary support for EAX4 aswell, it's major CPU hog goes on drawing loads of 'bugs'. It's a demo of the third level and, while it shows footage from the film, style wise stays very true to the film, the audio could be more satisfying on the guns, would be better if you had control of a group of people, rather than being solo and the world you're playing in feels a bit 'led' and 'empty'.

Almost a typical FPS but I guess it's not an entire representation of the final thing. Kind of disappointed it uses the film footage to carry it and setup what's going on.

vladthedog

09-01-2005, 01:16 PM

Ok.. i don't know why, but i can't get the dang thing to run... I've reinstalled it 3 times... It starts doing something, then just sits there on an "ActiveMovie Window"... and thats that... i'm giving up for now.

Mondopest

09-01-2005, 01:19 PM

The Book was great and the movie was only fun if you took it for what it was suposed to be in that twisted thing Verhoven calls his 'mind'. I could enjoy it for its action and for thouroughly hating Denise Richards in it for being such a slut and even Casper Diem for being an idiot who didnt see Dina as the kick ass chick she was until it was too late. Plus the Klendathu Drop musical score was just amazing. The book is a must-read for anyone interested as it is completely different than the movie - but I must happily say, better.

KarmaGhost

09-01-2005, 02:03 PM

Hmmm, no quick save. Very disappointing...

Morrolan

09-01-2005, 02:23 PM

The movie was, admittedly, cool. However, it should not have been called Starship Troopers. I mean, are there really enough Heinlien fans in the world, to warrant the raping of the name, like that? The movie had almost NOTHING in common with the book, AT ALL.

If it had been called 'Space Marines' or something, I might have enjoyed it and reccomended it. As it is, it's fucking garbage. It's a cash in, I guess, but I'm not sure what they thought they were cashing in on.

StANTo

09-01-2005, 02:31 PM

No quick save but the folders are there hinting at a save ability, I feel this demo's quite cut down.

F3nyx

09-01-2005, 02:42 PM

Heinlens's neo-con military wank-festAre you serious? You're making an awfully huge assumption if you think that Starship Troopers was actually advocating a system of government. Personally I take the ideas in the book as food for thought, an awfully interesting way of thinking about government, the military (including the flaws in our current system), citizenship and so forth. It's also a damn fine read.

Your use of the word "neo-con" suggests to me that even when reading science fiction from 50 years ago, you're more interested in conducting political IFF than seriously considering about the book's ideas and the author's actual intent in writing it.

The_Darr

09-01-2005, 02:53 PM

can anyone maybe explain how the DEMO is instead of the ongoing battle between the movie and book regarding which is better? i thought the movies and screenshots were depressingly bad, but i would love a game that captures the feel of the action from the movie. how does it control? is it more intense/fun while youre playing instead of watching? is there any interaction between soldiers? how are the physics/graphics compared to other new titles? etc...

Goronmon

09-01-2005, 02:59 PM

I played for 15 minutes. The game seems pretty terrible. I wouldn't even waste the time downloading it.

Orphiuchus

09-01-2005, 03:46 PM

The game was borderline unplayable from the start because of huge mouse lag, once I turned everything down to "ugly" it still had enough that it was very hard to aim at a fast moving bug. I tried 5 times to beat the demo and every time after I got the mine layer I was killed by a thousand bugs. Its pretty clear that the fight they give you is not winnable, and there must be a gun emplacement or a way to lay mines or something, but because I have to play through the whole demo to get back there every time I'm not willing to find out what the secret is.

The game does look nice...ish with everything turned up, but the mouse lag means you cant play it like that. Its simply not a very good peice of budget software.

On the book-movie debate: What the fuck are you smoking? Heinlein was a neo-con? It was fucking 1959 when he wrote it you moron! And no, the movie was not classic verhoeven, it was in my opinion his worst film(it or showgirls or hollowman, none of those measure up to his work in the 1980s and early 90s).

theCurse

09-01-2005, 04:28 PM

Wow. I'm impressed.

The game looks, runs, and plays... like shit.

Just as I think it might be serviceable, the game throws a thousand enemies at me I have no possible way to defend against. Seriously, where's the logic in sending one man after one hundred enemies?

Absolutely terrible. Even if the full game were twice as good as this demo, it would still be a waste of time.

GrinR

09-01-2005, 04:32 PM

Go get the old PC game and give 'er a whirl if you like Starship Troopers. It's much more like the book than the movie was (although not enough *cough*) and a real hoot at the higher levels.

KarmaGhost

09-01-2005, 04:50 PM

Even if the full game were twice as good as this demo, it would still be a waste of time.Well, 2 x 0 does = 0, afterall.

Mrbunchypants

09-01-2005, 05:02 PM

WoooHooo i beat it.....
I'm running a amd 1.2 with 512 ram and a 9800 pro. turned shadows off and left everything else.

Run ok will right after the getting the mine part. OMFG so many bugs. just like in the movie.

To beat the getting the mine part I kill the fist bug that comes out. it calls the others it seems. after that i switch to the first weapon and used it secondar fire to clear them out. they where all huddled around the first turn. what the game doesn't tell you is that the darker bugs can easy be kill by the the first weapon. and the tiger ones need to be taken down by the second one.

the last part is just a stay alive part still cool to see so many bugs.

Orphiuchus

09-01-2005, 06:55 PM

I just tried one last time, and I really cant imagine what they were thinking releasing this. The demo, on easy, is not beatable within any reasonable expectation. There are to many goddamn bugs. I cant imagine it taking less than a dozen tries to beat this, and I'm just not up to the task.

*edit* by bugs I mean enemies, not software bugs.

vladthedog

09-01-2005, 08:05 PM

C'mon.. it's really not that hard. I beat it w/o dying on my first go, and frankly I don't consider myself that good at run'n'gun style games. It's just not that good. At the very end of the demo there was a bit of "promise" just because it was cool to see all those bugs come swarming over that hill, but I definately am not convinced to go out and buy it from the demo.

I noticed the heavy lag as well. I thought it might just be because I was playing on my roomie's computer (and who knows how he has that thing set up) but if others are mentioning it, ya, its very noticable.

koorb

09-01-2005, 08:53 PM

The game runs fine on my GeForce6 (with everything on high) and you can complete the demo by picking up the shotgun at the crash site. When you get back to base OMG BUGS!!!

This is going to be cool (even if it does look like ass).

MasterKwan

09-01-2005, 09:12 PM

Well, the potential was there...

1) Seems like a console centric FPS. Weapons with a big spread. Seems to be spray and pray type shooting which I hate.

2) I spent a solid 30 seconds peppering a yellow alien with my rifle. Did dick. Secondary fire with the grenade launcher would damage them some. The explosion was small with a tiny damage radius. They seem to want you to make accurate hits to do damage but, the weapons aren't accurate at all.

3) Movement and mouse usage was sloppy. Again, like I was playing a console FPS. I followed someone elses advice and reduced the shadows so it was tolerable, barely.

4) Weapons were crap.

The universe is good, I wouldn't mind playing in that future. The game play mechanics just left me cold. I want a powerful rifle and a bunch of aliens to mow down. Not a BB gun that sounds like the motor of my civic.

The aliens looked good. I like the bloody corpses all over the place. It's about as tied into a movie I like, as you can get. I imagine you follow Rico from bootcamp to space?

This demo's done the opposite of what it was intended to do. Made me not even consider buying the game even as a reduced cost impulse buy. This is NOT the kind of demo a company wants to put out.

ÜberJumper

09-01-2005, 09:50 PM

Holy shit... ok until I realized you deploy with a second, MUCH BETTER, rifle, I wasn't liking this too much. Once you get a rifle with some punch, it's a boatload of fun. The Heavy Shotgun you find near the crash site is excellent as well, its secondary fire is spectacular.

Say what you like about StarshipTroopers the movie being way off the book, but heck, it's a fun universe to shoot stuff in.

The sound needs work. The bugs need to sound like insects IMO, not someone walking around in wooden clogs on wooden floor. The sound seemed muffled (DirectSound with EAX). I think I'll try it with just directsound selected. Although, I think with those sound muffling helmets on, it could be reasoned it would sound like that.

The feedback from your weapons firing could be better. Flashing cursor? More gooey spray (like the movie)?

I wasn't quite sure how the secondary fire was taking ammo on the number 2 rifle (the good one!). Seems like it would fire from 2 to 5 "shots" per firing of the secondary fire. Same with the heavy shotgun.

I found I didn't use the motion tracker thingy at all, seemed kinda useless.

This game has lots of potential, depending on the reviews, I might shell out for it.

The end bit, with the THOUSANDS of bugs coming over the hill? Holy fuck, pretty intense. Sadly, my 2.26 Ghz machine wasn't cutting it, so it was chugging pretty bad. Man was I having fun shooting those fuckers.

balamoor

09-01-2005, 10:04 PM

And in other news Robert Heinlein Rolls over in his grave.

Hizawky

09-01-2005, 10:10 PM

And in other news Robert Heinlein Rolls over in his grave.

Good, he wrote a book nerds fag up as some kind of amazing pol sci novel.

Put me in the camp of the movie was fucking awesome, because millions of fucking bugs get stomped.

H.Bogard

09-02-2005, 02:55 AM

i liked the movie
and you can figure out damn well why ;)

balamoor

09-02-2005, 03:35 AM

Good, he wrote a book nerds fag up as some kind of amazing pol sci novel.

Put me in the camp of the movie was fucking awesome, because millions of fucking bugs get stomped.

Hey I remember you! You're that paint chip eater in my English lit class who kept calling Frodo and Sam A "Couple Goddamn Queers" when we were reading The Two Towers. :rolleyes:

Heretic Machine

09-02-2005, 06:45 AM

First, if you can't seperate the book and the movie then you suck. Second, I don't like the way this game controls. It seemed a bit sluggish, especially with precision movement (I kept falling off the ramp leading up to the rail in the first bug scene.) It's doesn't seem like a bad game, but I would only buy it because I liked the movie.

XxSATANxX

09-02-2005, 10:50 AM

OMFG!

Granted my box is starting to show it's age but this was POS.

WTF!

I just want a bug kiling game like the movie.

I want to thank EMPIRE for the demo. I might have been tempted to actually buy this. As luck would have it i was saved by the demo. Man the trailer looked so cool.

Laggy, artifacts all over the place warping you name it it's in this game for me. Was like a flash back to 1994 or so. Also I need to put a bullet in my GeForce Ti 4600. I guess I'll actually have to upgrade. (but it plays porn just fine)