On May 17th Starship Troopers: Extermination was released on Steam in Early Access. Although the game doesn’t offer much yet, players are already hooked. According to the reviews, fans of the film in particular should definitely check out the shooter.
What kind of game is this? In Starship Troopers: Extermination you play in the special forces of the mobile infantry and shoot your way through tons of alien bugs with all sorts of different weapons. The game features:
The game comes from indie studio Offworld Industries, who previously worked on Post Scriptum and Squad. Squad suddenly excited tens of thousands of players in 2022.
Here’s how Starship Troopers: Extermination arrives: On Steam, the new shooter has a “very positive” rating with 93% positive reviews out of a total of 7,202 votes (as of May 22nd). According to steamcharts, over 16,000 players played simultaneously in the first few days.
Above all, the gunplay and replayability are praised. Due to procedural progress, it is not even a problem that there is only one map at the moment. Even bugs are hardly there, which is almost an exception for PC releases at the moment. Well, except for the “bugs” that you’re supposed to shoot, of course. There are heaps of them.
There is constant chaos, which somehow fits the idea. Above all, fans of the films claim that they would have liked to have played this game earlier. You just have to do without a real story right now. Starship Troopers: Extermination is currently available on Steam for €24.50.
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The indie game is based on the sci-fi film Starship Troopers (1997) by director Paul Vorhoeven, which in turn was based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert A. Heinlein.
Starship Troopers was nominated for an Oscar and 16 other awards and received 3 awards (via IMDb). The reviews are sometimes mixed, but the film was generally better received by viewers than by the trade press (via Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic).
Although Starship Troopers is primarily a space action film for many viewers, there is actually a good deal of criticism behind the film. The colleagues from Filmstarts write:
“Starship Troopers” throws fascist symbolism, inflammatory slogans and glorifying militarism around. The whole thing is underlined by a bombast score that gets to the point and is characterized above all by its merciless lack of distance. […]
What Starship Troopers lacks from being an absolute masterpiece is a little more distance and a tighter plot. The film can easily be misunderstood […]
Today the film is still relevant on the internet because at least the “I’m doing my part” meme is from Starship Troopers. Incidentally, this is also one of the most common ratings on Steam, which made the evaluation a bit tricky…
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