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Starship Troopers: Terran Ascendancy

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8.6 User Score:

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Based on 19 critic reviews
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Game Info

Publisher: Microprose

Developer: Blue Tongue

Genre(s): Real-Time Strategy

Players: 1

ESRB Rating: T (Teen)

Release Date: October 28, 2000

Summary

Lead a squad of heavily armored, over-the-top troopers on a series of in-your-face, real-time battles against vicious bug battalions. Call in air strikes, capture prisoners, and nuke bug holes. It's survival of the fittest and the last one standing wins. Answer the call and defend your planet! [Microprose]

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What The Critics Said

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PC Gameworld

A great combination of real-time strategy with a primary focus on team tactics and intense 3D action.

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Hot Games

Here we have the opposite of the norm -- a great game based on a bad film.

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Adrenaline Vault

Captures the essence of a war movie better than any other game I have played, with the possible exception of the original "Close Combat."

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GameSpy

The game is rich, detailed and fun to play. The only large complaint I find with the game is the lack of multiplayer, which will keep Starship Troopers out of the top slot.

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IGN

There's not enough excitement here to keep you interested.

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Happy Puppy

Even more tragic is the fact that there is no way for you to turn the tables and play as the Arachnids. I don't know about you, but I wanted to be the first kid on my block to suck a human brain out of a skull with a three-foot long proboscis.

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Computer Games Magazine

The most distinctive characteristic of Starship Troopers' gameplay is its immersive quality... In Starship Troopers you feel like a member of the squad. You're not actually in the action yourself (ala Quake) but you'll feel connected to the team.

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All Game Guide

Campaign missions tend to be repetitive and can become very tedious. The game's story lags and becomes stale quickly, resulting in a game that depends more on action and its war aspect then on plot. Even so, if you have a decent machine, Starship Troopers can be a blast to play.

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CNET Gamecenter

Tense missions coupled with bug-bashing fun make this one of the better strategy games we've seen this year, though it won't appeal much to gamers who aren't fans of the book or movie.

CheckOut

The whole multiplayer aspect was wasted, essentially a glorified deathmatch where players can either be bugs or humans, but once again there's just not a hell of a lot to do and the whole things feels tacked on just so they could slap "multiplayer" on the side of the box.

Yahoo! Games

On the one hand it has a terrific atmosphere and a style that fans of the movie will most likely adore... Yet on the other it is exceedingly frustrating thanks to the lack of an in-mission save feature.

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GamerWeb PC

Nice visuals and nifty RPG elements help to spice things up, but can't save this game from the quicksand of mediocrity.

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PC Gamer

Mediocre. Fans of the setting may enjoy it, but not too many other folks will. [Feb 2001, p.81]

GamePro

While the prospect of running around, blowing the hell out of space arachnids starts off as a blast, a lack of variety, the fact that you can't save your games mid-mission, and a camera that actually serves as a One Ring-sized gameplay burden ensure that the fun won't last for long.

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Eurogamer

Has all the right atmosphere and, for once, really comes across as how a game of a film should look and feel, and it's just the game to successfully bridge the gap between role-playing and strategy.

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Antagonist

This game is a frustrating waste of time.

Gamer's Pulse

When I first played SST, I considered it a guilty pleasure; by the time I finished I considered it a waste of time.

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GameSpot

Thanks to its great graphics, just watching your soldiers as they storm across the battlefield killing bugs is actually pretty fun - for a while, at least.

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Daily Radar

Decided it didn't want an in-game save function and forgot to add multiplayer, a skirmish mode or the ability to change the level of difficulty.

What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 8.6 (out of 10) based on 36 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Zach M. gave it a10:
Doesnt work in XP...But if you follow the comment below it works. Just right click on shorcut that launches the game. Go to properties, and click on the compatability tab. Then select windows 98. Its that easy. I didnt download any stuff like they suggest below. Now it works just fine.

Dare_Devil gave it a10:
I just love this game - its only drawback is probably the lack of multiplayer mode. One of the games I often re-play since its first issue in 2000.

John gave it an8:
Firstly you can now download the game from Underdogs via bitcurrent (220meg!). This version works on XP even though my original doesn't. It missed the movies, etc, so just copied everything from the download into my original folder and overwrote some files. Now I have a working game in XP (except for camera probs). For it's day this was a great game and still stands up pretty well now. The saving of soldiers lives so they get better at their job is a good one. The upgrading of armour reminded me of X-Com, no bad thing. And the squad involvement worked well. Also I think the atmosphere of being on the bug planet was very good in my opinion.

Marco A. gave it a 10:
OK some one help me please .. i got windows 98 , GF 4 Ti 420 and i get a error msg whene i go to configure. i slecte the Nvidia GeForce4 Ti 4200 , then i press next then i get a error saying Device Error There Were No Hardware capable device found! Please install your latest drivers! ..

blöögh gave it a 5:
It is a great game, if i only could get it working... it quits to desktop when i try to load a game... the updates does'nt help...

Tony L. gave it an 8:
My system specs are P4 1.3 Ghz, Video card: Nvidia Ge force 3, OS: Windows XP I had a problem with getting this game to run in XP, but i got it to work by following this advice: Blarhg of thegoblins for game support go to http://www.atarisupport.com/newfaq/starshiptroopers.php? browser=1&issueNum=1151&osType=WINXP&pageDisplay=MAIN#faq_prodissues they have fixes for Windows 98, ME, 2000, and XP. I downloaded both the 1.1 patch and the Nvidia patch in the Windows XP section. I used a combination of both patches to get the game to work. Copy FONTS folder from troopersfullpatch11.zip overwriting the one in game directory. Copy D3d.dll and startroopers.exe from troopersfullnvidia1.zip overwriting the ones in game directory. I hope this helps those struggling out there to get this game to work. I've only played two missions so far and I had a lot of fun. Good eyecandy for a game done in 2000.

)nightmare( evil death gave it a 9:
WE NEED MULTIPLAYER GAME FOR STARSHIP TROOPERS !!!!!!!!!

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