Starship Troopers: Terran Command is a great real-time strategy game that has you leading your troops to victory against the arachnid alien forces trying to take over the galaxy. The multiple difficulty settings make it accessible to anyone who wants to destroy bugs.
A very nice depiction of the imaginary war torn reality created by Heinlein. A feisty strategy game that isn't afraid to try new things. It's not perfect, perhaps, but for the price it's a very good package.
Very fun real-time strategy in the style of Company of Heroes. It is a bit rough around the edges, and you can feel that the budget wasn't very high, but it still delivers a good experience, especially if you like the Starship Troopers franchise. The only thing that felt off was a difficulty spike in Mission 14. Until then, the game was a breeze on hard difficulty, and suddenly I had to restart this mission as it got nearly impossible to finish on that save. Even after restarting, I was only barely able to complete it on my second try.
I don’t think Starship Troopers: Terran Command does much new in the real-time strategy genre, but the use of the license gives real flavour to the solid meal that the gameplay provides. Plus, a good bug hunt never goes out of style.
Not necessarily a great strategy game on its own, but still a charming budget title that treats its license with respect and delivers some of the best Starship Troopers action we've seen in any video game so far.
A strategy equivalent of a summer blockbuster, wiped from your memory as soon as the credits start rolling. It’s not as intense as Verhoeven’s movie, not as varied or expensive as other games in this genre, a simplified Company of Heroes, if you will.
Starship Troopers: Terran Command tries to capture the campiness and action-packed thrills of the movie, but it falters just like the invasion of Klendathu.
"Come on, you apes! You wanta live forever?"
In Starship Troopers: Terran Command, The Artistocrats and Slitherine Ltd. have created a balanced, fun and highly replayable game by combining a few mechanics that we are not used to seeing in traditional real-time strategy games.
The game is focused on military actions and not on collecting resources and building bases as in many real-time strategy games. Instead, we handle the tactical management of resources, which is good for deep gameplay and fun!
Terran Command has a line of sight and line of fire mechanics. These are means that the height and topography of the battlefield is a tactical factors in the game.
Although the events in the game take place after the Battle of Klendathu, the game does not take place on that planet. That's a relief; it was a horrible battle! The story, like many elements of the game, is dynamically created according to our performance in the game. This creates high replayability in the game.
Game does too much hand-holding and there's almost no base-building involved. The game walks you through everything so building structures is almost never up to you. I was expecting something like Starcraft with base building and tactical decision making, but so much of the game just tells you to go from point a to point b and your army design and structure placement, etc. is barely up to you at all. Graphics are good, but that's about the only pro of the game. I was pretty disappointed with the game overall.
Spoke with game devs on one of the messageboards to make sure Epic online services was not included in the game and while they said presently it's not, they wouldn't rule out the possibility that it could eventually make it into the game, so this was a pretty big con for me. Ultimately I borrowed a friend's copy of the game to check it out as I would not recommend ever buying a game where the developers won't confirm / promise EOS (Epic Online Services) will stay out of the game permanently as some developers recently have been adding EOS into games retroactively, causing problems for owners of the game.
Overall game rating: 4/10 - not recommended.
A joke , built with direct X 9. 2003 graphics, looks like an old command and conquer game. Controls are clunky and poorly designed, make it hard to play.
SummaryStarship Troopers - Terran Command is a thrilling real-time strategy game set in the Starship Troopers movies universe. Take command of the Mobile Infantry and do your part in the war against the Arachnid threat. Build, develop and control your armies to strike an effective balance between tactical superiority and strength in numbers. En...