Starship Troopers Gone Gold

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Empire Interactive sends along word that their new Sci Fi shooter, Starship Troopers, has Gone Gold and will be shipping to store shelves on November 15th.

Leading video game publisher Empire Interactive announced today that through a license agreement with Sony Pictures Consumer Products, the highly anticipated and fast-paced video game Starship Troopers, which is based on the definitive blockbuster film, has gone gold.

Players are one step closer to blasting alien arachnids into oblivion and earning their citizenship as an Elite Marauder, all while trying to restore peace, as millions of killer bugs run amuck and threaten human life as we know it.

Starship Troopers introduces a terrifying assortment of enemy bugs for players to destroy using an impressive range of weapons like the M4 Morita Rifle and infamous nuke launchers. Players must control their nerves and use their wit as they move through the game’s frenetic missions, which take them through varied combat environments such as wide-opened battlefields, abandoned mines and claustrophobic bug nests.

The game covers the entire Starship Troopers universe from the classic novel and TV series to the feature films. In fact, actor Casper Van Dien, who played the brave yet novice Johnny Rico in the film, introduces each mission in the game.

So prepare to succeed in a universe filled with chaos and oversized multi-legged creatures in this epic gung-ho bug-blasting adventure that is sure to capture the adrenaline rush of the films and more.

Available in North America exclusively through Destineer Publishing Corp., Starship Troopers is scheduled for release November 15, 2005 at a suggested retail price of $39.99.

[The Iron Weasel]

The demo was pretty ass. I think I'll pass unless I hear otherwise.

[spacerat100]

the demo was kinda crappy... and buggy... let's hope they did some work on the final version

[Steve_Erhardt]

the demo was kinda crappy... and buggy...
Boo! Hiss!

[Citizen Philip]

For what format? I really enjoyed the book.. which is entirely unlike the movie in anyway! But I enjoyed the movie too...;)

[KNOTE]

This demo was absolutely dreadful. If they are interested in selling more than 30,000 copies of this game they better put out an updated demo that shows that they've significantly improved the game. I really *wanted* to like it, because who doesn't want to kill bugs?

[EGO]

Haven't they been trying to get a Starship Troopers game out for light years!?!?

This thing looks to be fashioned after the movie... not only the movie, but Starship Troopers 2...

Pass...

[Maskatron]

Ego, you might be thinking of the other ST game that came out about 5-6 years ago. That one was in development for awhile.

[Jeff]

Unless they release an updated demo, there's no way I will be getting this. The previous demo was horribly buggy and had intolerable mouse lag. I loved the movie and book though, so if they managed to fix the game I'm sure I'd enjoy it, too.

[ÜberJumper]

Wow, what the hell was wrong with the demo? That thing freakin rocked!

I didn't have a single problem with it.

[Dirty Harry]

Wow, what the hell was wrong with the demo? That thing freakin rocked!

I didn't have a single problem with it.
See you were lucky to play on the side with no problems.

[Tia]

The demo was terrible. The graphics are iffy, the controls are icky and gameplay is uninspired. There are no saves and you get "lives"? Meh, I will pass also.

[XxSATANxX]

Uber: You would be in the minority. Most of us had lag, crashes, screen abnormalities, blood streaming from our eyeballs, uncontrolled belching, and a feeling of emptiness and depression. I haulacinated the ghosts of dead german soldiers wandering in my bedroom.

Simply it was Da Crap!

[MasterEvilAce]

i didn't have crashes or anything.. but the demo ran badly, and the graphics were ugly.

The gameplay sucked HARD. You start the game and your fort is getting attacked, luckily you don't have to fire a single shot..

you stock up on ammo and you are sent out ALONE to secure objectives.. one bug at a time attacks you.. you continue on and get to the objectives.. You grab them all then all the sudden you're all the way away from the exit and over 50 bugs come at you.. not only do they lag you, they take like an entire clip to kill.. AND they run faster than you. What sort of bullshit is that? I pretty much said fuck this game, and uninstalled it.

[ÜberJumper]

Did you guys not switch over to the proper rifle or something? I thought the demo sucked until I realized that the weapon you start with is a backup SMG.

The full on rifle drops bugs really well, plus it's secondary fire kicks ass on the wimpy grenade things the SMG weapon uses. AND there's the freaking Combat Shotgun that kills bugs in one shot!

I gotta admit, I was thinking the game sucked until I realized that the default weapon wasn't the best one of the two you start with. The super shot gun is at the end of the debris field by the crashed shuttle.

[The Iron Weasel]

Uber: You would be in the minority. Most of us had lag, crashes, screen abnormalities, blood streaming from our eyeballs, uncontrolled belching, and a feeling of emptiness and depression. I haulacinated the ghosts of dead german soldiers wandering in my bedroom.

Simply it was Da Crap!

You forgot explosive diarrhea, and anal leakage.

Man that demo sucked.

[Mondopest]

I would have loved to seen a ST game that was good. Squad based combat lends itself very nicely to the ST 'verse as the bugs are, obviously, extremely difficult to kill. That would have been nice, maybe get some AI squadmates with some personality, which would also add alot of value to gameplay as well. Seems they really dropped the ball in that aspect of the game - at least make the campaign co-op.

[XxSATANxX]

You forgot explosive diarrhea, and anal leakage.

Man that demo sucked.

Oh I had that to but then I updated my drivers! :D

[The Iron Weasel]

Oh I had that to but then I updated my drivers! :D

Dude, I didn't get those drivers.......

*runs to bathroom*

[Tia]

Did you guys not switch over to the proper rifle or something? I thought the demo sucked until I realized that the weapon you start with is a backup SMG.

The full on rifle drops bugs really well, plus it's secondary fire kicks ass on the wimpy grenade things the SMG weapon uses. AND there's the freaking Combat Shotgun that kills bugs in one shot!

I gotta admit, I was thinking the game sucked until I realized that the default weapon wasn't the best one of the two you start with. The super shot gun is at the end of the debris field by the crashed shuttle.

Oh yeah I siwtched weapons the second the game started. It sucked just the same only with different weapon.

[lost]

This is already on store shelves here in the big E.U. Wasn't tempted to say the least.

I should be able to get excited about it, but it's kinda like getting excited about MOH: Frontline for the PS2, playing the first level then getting bored pretty quick. Or at least this is how I imagine it.

[F3nyx]

A Starship Troopers game without jumpjets is like a fish without gills... basing the game on the movie instead of the book is, to me, unforgiveable. Heinlein already laid out the design for a fantastic game. Running around on foot fighting bugs with pseudo-futuristic weapons -- I got my fill of that in Half-life 2. Conversely, consider jetting over a group of bugs, in formation with your squad, toasting arachnids with a plasma flamer, with a futuristic sensor suite at your disposal.

[Goronmon]

I played the demo, the graphics were pretty bad and the gameplay was worse. It just didn't feel right, like there was little feedback as you were shooting at all of those bugs. Maybe it was just me, but it felt like I was shooting flash-guns that would eventually take down a bug due to blindness or something.

[Voodoo]

I fell asleep while playing the demo.

[Bushido]

If it was a game based on the highly contreversial book then Id take a look at it, however im not interested in playing Melrose place in space.

[The Iron Weasel]

I fell asleep while playing the demo.

I fell asleep at the keyboard once. I was waiting for the new version of Day Of Defeat to download.....needless to say it took a long time.