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The actual respectable weapons, like the shotgun which can clean a lot of clocks at close range, there’s a definite shortage of shells. That’s how the game limits you – the weak weapons, those that take a couple of dozen shots to kill a bug, you get plenty of ammo for. That’s the weapon you’ll use most (if you’re unfortunate enough to get this lump of coal in your stocking this year), not because it’s so powerful – it’s not much more powerful than the plasma rifle – but it doesn’t overheat and there’s plenty of ammo for it lying around. From there you get the MK4, which appears to be the marine assault weapon from the movie. You start off with a plasma rifle which has infinite ammo but frequently overheats and does almost no damage. Oy, and the weapons you’ve got to do it with. There are also a few escort missions that involve killing trainloads of bugs while trying to keep alive a fragile, unarmed charge without the brains for self-preservation that god gave a ham sandwich.
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It’s more like a chore threshing through the teeming masses, and that’s bad news for the game, because Starship Troopers is really just a chain of endless (or at least they seem that way, but there are in fact 10) missions involving killing trainloads of bugs.
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I just can’t express how un-epic, un-exciting, un-tense these battles feel. So, despite the fact that you’re supposedly part of a larger army, it’s frequently you against hundreds of bugs, which would be a real problem if they didn’t considerately attack you just a few at a time, and if even those few didn’t get stuck (often) on rocks or other features of the terrain and allow you to pick them off at your leisure. Fortunately for the bugs my fellow soldiers are equally useless, standing around waiting until the insects are actually on top of them before firing off a few ineffective rounds and then dying. The sea of bugs is out there swaying around, but they’re intelligent bugs and they’re willing to wait their turn to die. Once you mow those down, another 5 come at you, then a few more. Then maybe 3 bugs break off from the pack and attack. And the first time you clear a summit with a squad of soldiers and look down into a valley literally wall-to-wall with bugs, I’ve got to give them credit, there’s a small clench factor there. Technically, that’s not a lie – there can be hundreds of insects on the screen at any given time, standing around intelligently doing nothing.
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Inspired by the movie of the same title that came out 8 years ago (which itself was inspired by a book from 1959), Starship Troopers the game attempts to recreate massive battles between thousands of marines and hundreds of giant bugs – the box says the game supports “up to 300 intelligent bugs” on the screen at one time. But this is an FPS – shouldn’t I lead off with the sucky weapons? Now you see my problem. How about a quick paragraph about how they lost any of the satire of the original Starship Troopers concept? Oh, and I gotta write about the pointless peppering of the game with meaningless, out-of-context clips from the movie. No, wait, the terrible graphics really should be first. Should I write about the piss-poor AI? The general monotony of the missions, perhaps? Ooh, ooh, I know! I’ll, start with the horrible voice work. For those of you who want a more thorough accounting of how it’s crap, read on, though I must confess that it has so many crappy facets that I’m hard-pressed to think of which thing to discuss first. For those of you who want a simple summary, that’s it, it’s crap. Is it the worst game I ever played? – no, that pantheon will forever be inhabited by the likes of Dukes of Hazard: Racing for Home – but it’s plenty awful. But no, I had to review Starship Troopers. This game is crap, complete, unadulterated Ceee-RAP (aww, don’t sugarcoat it, tell us how you really feel), and I’d like Stranglite Developers to develop a machine that will give me back the weekend that I wasted playing it, a weekend that could have otherwise been spent working my way up the black list in NFS:MW or digging into the new Prince of Persia game, or even spent playing Freecell.