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Instead, death forces you to wait while it loads a pointless screen playing a videoclip, with a voiceover swearing at you. This might be more bearable if you could stab the quick-load, and oh, for the kick of it, quickly load. Yes, it looks like it too was made in 1998. Yes, it looks a bit like that bit in Half-Life. Throw in the enormously original idea of having to defend another character, and then there's the joy of dying every time they decide to offer themselves as a sacrifice to any enemies they can run toward. If you're unlucky, they'll attack you from 360 degrees (the game forces you to stand out in the open frequently), those behind you killing you before you can take out the ones killing you from the front. If you're lucky, they'll all charge a local rock, wedging their limbs miraculously through it, while you casually walk around them. Your survival is entirely at the discretion of the direction the Bugs run in, based on their complete lack of discernable AI. What actually happens is you stand still with your finger on the mouse button, shooting at a hundred of the same enemy until either of you are dead, and then after 57 reloads, maybe trudge over to the next site of the same.
What's clearly meant to happen is that you're overwhelmed by the incredible numbers of enemies on screen at once. Twelve missions throw you into the hordes of Bugs, with thinly veiled excuses for you to run from checkpoint to checkpoint armed only with infinite ammo and the slowest quick-load in the west. This is a three-year-old game, hastily updated for a more modern world.Īs the back of the box explains, again demonstrating the game's complete lack of comprehension when it comes to the license, "Hesperus, a planet perilously close to Earth, has fallen to the bug menace." In other words, rather than recreate the film's story, it's the, "Er, it's five years later and something similar is happening," manoeuvre. But today? And then the incredibly long development time of Troopers comes into stark relief. Surely it can't be the boast of having dozens of enemies on screen at once? A year ago, sure - there's a boast. Which makes a mystery of exactly what it's doing with the minimum spec of a 2GHz CPU and 128Mb 3D card. Most of it taken up with the ridiculous red blur, and an alien's legs. This is what the game looks like for the majority of time. And it's then, and only then, that you can say with any acuity: Starship Troopers looks like the back end of a dog.
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After that you buy a copy of the game from the shops in case it's a problem with the code sent by the developers.
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Solutions include keeping your computer full of very mainstream and up-to-date hardware, spending a couple of hours updating all your drivers just in case, then seeing how it runs on another machine.
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With the complexity of PC innards, and the agony of driver conflicts, there's a reasonable likelihood that a game looking like the back end of a dog might be your own machine's fault.
Boot.Ī secret about reviewing PC games: you've got to be really careful when criticising poor graphics.
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Because the patch put out on the day of release achieved the impressive result of causing the game to refuse to acknowledge a disc in the drive.
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A hellishly long install ends in, "Do you want to check for updates?" Well, yes. Low quality clips of the film, despite the game coming on DVD. Sadly, included in the numbers of those who didn't really 'get' Starship Troopers are Strangelite, Which is only made more strange by the inclusion of clips from the film between missions, painfully containing all the information anyone might need to know that the Bugs are completely innocent in the interplanetary war, and that the forces of Earth are the bad guys. But it's never better than when people attempt to speak the truth of the situation, and are drowned out by the gung-ho nonsense from the main cast. The superb spoof propaganda adverts provide belly laughs, and really ought to make the point ever-so-slightly clear. To give Verhoeven his credit, he wasn't exactly subtle about it. Do your satire well enough, and those who aren't willing to engage their brain will confuse themselves, and start pronouncing the film as pro-war, all-American, or as has often been the case, fascist.
The problem is, satire requires thought from your audience. Verhoeven's film is, and this cannot be stressed enough for the hard of thinking, a SATIRE. But before we get to that, it's time for a quick check that everyone's in line when it comes to the film this FPS is based upon. The most remarkable crash to date, locking up all sound from my PC into a sampled loop, freezing all controls, forcing a hard-reboot, has spectacularly rendered Starship Troopers unbootable. There is proof of an interventionist God.
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