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| [Sep 01, 2005, 2:46 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments |
A demo for Starship Troopers
is now available, offering a sample of the upcoming shooter based on the movie
based on the Robert A. Heinlein book of the same name. The 450 MB download
debuted on
GameSpot DLX (registration required), and mirrors are now also available on
3D Gamers,
4players.de (Germany),
ActionTrip,
Computer Games (Romania),
eXtreme-Players.de
(Germany),
FileFront,
FilePlanet (registration required),
Filerush (torrent), Gameguru
Mania, Gamer's Hell,
PC Gameworld,
VGPro, and
Worthplaying.
Want to know more? Word from the read me is: "You play the role of an elite
Marauder - the Special Forces of the Mobile Infantry. As High Command's
precision strike tool it's your duty to spearhead the campaign against the
arachnid menace. Whenever 'the going gets tough' Marauders are expected to lead
the way!"
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Bleh |
Sep 2, 2005, 02:00 |
Ray Marden |
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Skip it.
I was going through the tunnel until you get to the area with like five of the yellow bugs. I ended up backing up quite a bit, taking out the following swarm one by one. On my way back, I noticed one kind of hiding in a little alcove to the left and I charged it. I wondered if its body bits might have been covering up some ammo or something, why else put a single bug there, and I got stuck in the geometry. It looks like the ground slopes down just a tad and the physics will not allow me to climb it back up. So, what, three minutes into the demo and I have found a show stopper bug.
Nice.
Otherwise, I like the outward appearance of the levels and I want to get into the crazy, over the top world created in the movie (I never read the power armor books, but I though the movie was fantastic for what it was - this crazy spoof of a zealous war society,) but the rest of the game just is not there.
Same 'ol crap - very generic and some obvious issues. I have to click through resolutions (PITA on a 22" monitor that supports a million resolutions,) it still did not have the refresh I wanted, using the FMV from the movies completely takes you out of the game, there is a weird inertia thing going on with movement (but I am a stated input whore so you can ignore that one,) armor looks fine, but the character faces look terrible and like they are hidden in the helmets, lighting is generic, I have no idea what the hell that little skip of a jump is, weapons and grenades are incredibly weak, the sound is a little flat, the music is really generic, etc.
Bet on Soldier, though lacking the more stylized look, was better.
And it still was not good.
Passing,
Ray
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