Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! Reviews
Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War is dull, uninspired, and devoid of the series' characteristic wit.
Playing as a Trooper or a Bug in this stylised retro shooter is every bit as entertaining as the movie that inspired it, with a bonus hit of nostalgia for fans of golden-era military shooters. It doesn't take a brain bug to realise that multiplayer would have been a great addition to round out the package, though.
Yes, the presentation and fan service is welcome and there is an okay game here for fans of the franchise, but it feels like a quick stopgap between Warhammer 40,000 games and the bug levels are some of the worst bits of a game I've played in a while. I'm afraid on this occasion I will not be doing my part and replaying Ultimate Bug War.
Starship Troopers Ultimate Bug War is a solid experiment in old-school 2D FPS design-fun and ferocious. It's a shame it only lasts around four hours, and in the gameplay-both as humans and aliens-you can glimpse some untapped potential. Still, it feels like the right foundation on which to build a bigger and better sequel in the future.
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Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War is a fun shooter with a fantastic presentation. It doesn't do anything major or push the genre forward, but it provides a fun, entertaining experience with one of the more memorable franchises on the market.
Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War is a spot-on celebration of the movie and of the boomer shooters from its era. A couple of the gameplay elements stumble, and the difficulty may prove too much for some recruits, but fans will be glad to do their part.
If you want to shoot a bunch of bugs, cause a ton of explosions, and watch some genuinely funny cutscenes all through the lens of an in-universe highly propagandized video game, Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! might just be for you. While it has its flaws (namely, squad gameplay, objective variety, and the Bug mode), it's entertaining to say the least.
The mission of Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! is twofold. First, to deliver a modest campaign: five or so hours of relentless first-person shoo...
Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! is a fun shooter that relies on old-school gameplay mechanics paired with a more modern game structure, paired with a fun B-movie-styled campaign with excellent pacing.
Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War is brief but unforgettable, its humour carrying it beyond the limits of its retro-shooter roots.
A smartly presented retro tinged shooter that fans of the franchise will love
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Join the fight against the invasive bugs and gain citizenship! General Rico will support your efforts, too. Would You like to know more? Get into the game and enjoy it as both Federation soldiers and arachnids!
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All in all, Starship Troopers Ultimate Bug War sits nicely next to the EDF series as a parody of militarism in video games. EDF does it by embracing B-grade aesthetics and bonkers attitude, where Starship Troopers instead builds on the film to deliver something sharp and more pointed. It’s sad that this game is just so intensely relevant right now, but that is the world we live in. As a satire, Starship Troopers Ultimate Bug War isn’t particularly funny, because it’s increasingly our reality.
A retro-styled first-person shooter, Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! is excellently presented with live-action sequences that are genuinely funny. Unfortunately, it's let down by repetitive mission design and just isn't as much fun to play as it should be, with its third-person bug missions being particularly bland.
Fans of Starship Troopers and classic FPS games will find enough to love here, even if the bug missions are a letdown. Everyone fights; no one quits. But maybe turn down the difficulty until you get your space legs.
Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! captures all the aesthetic strangeness characteristic of the original 1990s film, taking the satire to a whole new level—especially when you consider the war-torn context so prevalent in today's news. With robust gameplay that blends the classic with the modern, but visuals and level design whose intentions are better than their execution, something was missing for General Rico to fully convince me to enlist.
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The game looks great and surprisingly combines two visual styles. While levels are vast 3D environments reminiscent of later boomer shooters from the late 90s/early 2000s, enemies and NPCs are 2D 16-bit pixelated characters. It works given the non serious tone of the game. Between missions, you’ll be treated to movie like cutscenes featuring General Johnny Rico and Major Samantha “Sammy” Dietz along with others characters looking to “recruit” you. On the audio side of things, nothing major to report. The soundtrack is minimal lost through the banter of your colleagues. Speaking of which, it’s enjoyable with a bit of humor. The game does have a few nuisance. The first one being the repetitiveness of the objectives. It often feels like you’re doing the same thing in different levels. Another issue is the lack of vehicles. While the maps aren’t that huge, running/walking from one objective to another is tedious and boring. Thankfully, with a mech, you’ll go a bit faster.