What's the closest we've ever come to having a Starship Troopers game?

[Vlajdimir Ermenović]

Starcraft? Dawn of War? Some other wh40k game? Any shooters? What game comes the closest to simulating the action and tone of that book?

[rusty_shackleford]

[Vlajdimir Ermenović]

What does that Verhoven movie have to do with Starship Troopers?

[gerey]

Oh, you mean something akin to the books?

Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri from Looking Glass Studios is a power armor sim.

On the more comedic/arcade end of the spectrum there's Earth Defense Force, where you can use power armor to slaughter big bugs.

Some of the movie-based Starship Troopers games do introduce their own take on power armor. Terran Ascendancy does, as does the Starship Troopers: Terran Command RTS.

[rusty_shackleford]

What does that Verhoven movie have to do with Starship Troopers?

I don't think there's anything that really embodies the book. Closest is probably this, if you squint really hard

[maidenhaver]

I got filtered by all the jargon.

[Acrux]

Terran Command straddles a line between the two, I think. Visually it takes a lot of influence from the movie (and is basically a remake of Terran Ascendency), but it doesn't really try to be over-the-top or satirical. There are power armor troops, too, if that's the main issue.

[maidenhaver]

Is there anything to kill besides bugs?

[Gregz]

The MechWarrior games, maybe?

[Oyster Sauce]

Helldivers has obvious Starship Troopers influence

[Oyster Sauce]

Played a bit of Starship Troopers: Extermination. It's an early access and there are plenty of Chinese players in the US servers, so you could say it's bug ridden in 3 ways. I suspect it'll just be another EA scam looking at the player count, but having 16 people wildly retreat to the dropship at the end of a mission with respawns disabled was pretty cool. I would be shooting my way there at first before forgetting my gun entirely and hoping the faster players who got there first would cover me as I just made a mad dash for the ship.
My biggest complaint is probably that it isn't more like the movie. I want to be a grunt with a ****** rifle instead of having access to power armor and an arsenal. Oh well.

[maidenhaver]

[Oyster Sauce]

[J1M]

Starcraft? Dawn of War? Some other wh40k game? Any shooters? What game comes the closest to simulating the action and tone of that book?

Star Wars: Republic Commando

[Oyster Sauce]

"Retro" inspired indie or mobile game port? You decide. Demo's out.

[Finarfin]

Some might find the fact that you play Samantha Dietz a dealbreaker

[fork]

Yeah, I wanted to play as Carmen Ibanez!
No buy!

[Tweed]

The L4D2 mod that turns all the zombies into bugs.

[asf]

starcraft

[Bertram_Tung]

female voiceover is the only part i dont like, i sure hope you can play as a male or else this is DOA

[Bertram_Tung]

comes out tomorrow