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Starship Troopers
Critic Score
Metascore: 46 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
6.4 out of 10
based on 18 reviews
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Starship Troopers introduces a terrifying assortment of enemy bugs for you to destroy, with an impressive range of weapons at your disposal, from the classic M2 Morita Rifle through to the infamous nuke launcher. Over 300 of your arachnid foe's can be tackled on screen at any given time. This has to be played to be believed! Become totally immersed in immense bug-blasting battles in both famous action-packed scenes from the movie and never-before-experienced settings and stories from the Starship Troopers universe. [Strangelite]

PUBLISHER: Empire Interactive
DEVELOPER: Strangelite
GENRE(S): First-Person Shooter
PLAYERS: 32
ESRB RATING: M (Mature)
RELEASE DATE: November 15, 2005

What The Critics Said

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78
BonusStage
The sheer intensity of the firefights in this game makes it worth the money, and given that it’s relatively inexpensive to pick up (you’re looking at a $30-$40 dent in your wallet), it’s worth the majority of that money.
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77
Pelit (Finland)
Technically, the large swarms of bugs are impressive, but otherwise the game looks dated and sounds weak. The fun comes mainly from the game's respect of its source material. The boss fights are incredibly tedious, though. [Dec 2005]
70
Worth Playing
It's nice to see a publisher put in a little extra effort with the presentation of their product, which is rare these days.
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70
Cheat Code Central
Starship Troopers is a game that underscores the principal of diminishing returns which means the more you play it, the less you'll like it. If you must, enjoy it in small doses.
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68
Next Level Gaming
The cut-scenes add a nice touch to the storyline, and the nearly limitless number of enemy bugs; matched with their hard armor and aggressive behavior defiantly keep the game, if nothing else, interesting.
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67
GameZone
The average graphics and sound weigh down Starship Troopers. The ability to fight swarms of enemies is entertaining at first, but it can be a problem at times. Losing because the enemies attacked faster than you can kill them or because you looked the wrong direction for a second and a half can be frustrating.
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58
Computer and Video Games
There are redeeming features, a few nice touches of scripting here and a cool boss there, but generally the fabled shitty-stick of non-touching is going to have to make another one of his increasingly common appearances. [PC Zone]
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50
IGN
Regardless of what actually went on during the course of development, whatever innovations they achieved are overshadowed by annoying combat mechanics and shallow gameplay loops.
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45
PC Gamer
The transition from celluloid to digital bytes is a mess of missed opportunities. [Feb 2006, p.37]
40
Eurogamer
It is an exercise in immense frustration and painful tedium. When it works, and this feels a stupid sentence at this point, it does manifest the correct semiotic indicators of first-person shooting. You are mowing down literally hundreds of baddies with big metal guns. But that's it. And it isn't all that much.
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40
1UP
Now what are you waiting for, a medal? You'll only get that if you survive, marauder -- if you can survive the tedium of never-ending waves of bugs and repetitive missions.
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40
GameSpy
At least the audio captures a bit of the enjoyably cornball feel of the film. The bugs and guns don't make much of an impression, but troops utter intentionally cheesy lines like, "I'm so bad I scare myself!"
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38
GameSpot
Starship Troopers has little dedication to faithfully re-creating the things that made the film unique, and it's a pretty lousy and technically deficient shooter to boot.
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35
Game Over Online
This videogame is a soulless, shambling zombie wreck. It is rife with bad graphics, AI, gameplay, voicework, plot (if it can even be said to have a plot), and weapons.
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25
GameShark
Starship Troopers just doesn't have any soul. It's a generic first-person shooter, with gameplay that isn't very much fun and doesn't do justice with the license its based on.
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22
Gamer 2.0
Standing still watching an incomprehensible mass of bodies shifting forwards as they work against the constraints of the engine is no fun. Taking another step into the realms of First-Person shootery and actually firing is inept solace.
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20
Computer Gaming World
A by-the-numbers blast-a-thon. [Feb 2006, p.71]
20
Computer Games Magazine
In lieu of interesting situations, tactics, thrills, or simple variety, Starship Troopers coughs up a big greasy hairball of run-right-at-you enemies that never stop coming. [Mar 2006, p.55]

What Our Users Said

Vote Now! The average user rating for this game is 6.4 (out of 10) based on 17 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Alessio P. gave it a7:
The net has been very unjust to this game... in its way, its amazing. Graphic isnt that bad, and surely having LOTS of bugs around you gave the same impression of watching the movie. Sound makes his job... nothing exceptional, ok, but neither orrible. Gameplay is very fun... sure, enemies have no IA. They are bugs, remember? This is all about smashing tons and tons of bugs, wave after wave... the game never promised something else so you may like it or not, but its stupid to get angry if its not your type of game. I enjoyed ST... it really goes on smoothly: think at it like a casual game, only an FPS. If you have a powerfull enough pc and you play it at easy settings (very important this: only on easy the npc stays alive and give the felling of being part o a team), you'll enjoy it... and maybe youll replay it more than some FPS-masterpiece that request you to be focused all the time. I surely did it

Tech gave it a3:
The only reason i gave this a 3 is cause the of the decent graphic. Friendly AI is simply horrible, some kind of system where you can command like in Half Life 2 would be better. The human models looks crap. The worst mission ever was when you were going to rescue that general. All he does is complain , why don't he do the job self then instead of sitting in a car! This game sucked.

Sherlock P. gave it a0:
Excellent game. Wonderful combination of Heinlein and the few tolerable parts that Verhacken's trash film introduced. Superb expansion of Heinlein's world, amazing designs of alien planets... Yes, Microprose's 2000 strategy "Starship Troopers: Terran Ascendancy" is a wonderful game indeed; too bad it's not sold anymore, or that it has no sequel. Still, one can easily find it... Oh, you ask about the 2006 Starship Troopers, vomitted out by a collective of tapeworms that called itself "Strangelite"? Well, as for them and their game, I have the Beria reward: a spent shell placed on the top of the spine and then hit hard with the butt of the rifle. I heard Rebellion bought the cretins that developed this pile of manure. I hope they only bought them for organ transplants.

Matt N. gave it a0:
Easily the worst FPS I've ever played and I've played a lot. Graphics are rubbish and they chug like a mofo and my machine plays everything from X3 to Farcry maxed out. The gameplay is extremely poor and it's just generally incredibly dull and ugly at every turn. Save yourself some time and throw your money straight down the toilet!! And whats up with the dude from Worthplaying who gave this 70 ?!?! Halflife 2 must have blown his mind.

Edoardo D. gave it a5:
Good graphic and decent sound. Impressive number of enemies, maybe too many! The game is really frustrating and there no time to think about tactics. AI is very basic too.

D. M. gave it a2:
a game that makes warhammer 40k fire warrior look good. stagnant gameplay & 'dumb' lead you by the hand maps inter spaced with carefully planned 'encounters' and clips from the original movie. a trully painful and horrible gaming experience.

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