Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War gets a satisfying demo and release date

The retro single-player FPS Starship Troopers: Final Bug Warfare! has a demo accessible on Steam and it’ll launch March sixteenth. Coming from the identical staff that made the reasonably wonderful Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun, it is one other retro-styled licensed shooter.

We’ve quite a few fashionable Starship Troopers video games now together with an online-focused FPS, and a technique recreation however fortunately Final Bug Warfare is properly totally different once more.

Take a look at the brand new trailer:

From the press launch:

At this time’s trailer features a message delivered immediately from Common Johnny Rico (Casper Van Dien) introducing the model new singleplayer marketing campaign and its hero, Main Samantha Dietz (Charlotta Mohlin, Immortality). The participant dives into Dietz’s wartime experiences from 25 years earlier, and the gameplay follows the promising younger recruit on the hunt for the despicable Murderer Bug through the First Bug Warfare, as depicted within the traditional 1997 movie. Dietz’s story spans missions brimming with thrilling motion, expansive weaponry, and exemplary devotion to the Federation.

The demo provides you a single location to run by way of, the well-known Zegema Seashore and provides you a small style of what to anticipate from the shooter. Whereas the sport may have varied totally different places, every mission seems to have fairly an open setting with you choosing the order of the targets you do as you run round. In my testing it ran flawlessly with Proton 10.

As a giant fan of the traditional film it appears to have the correct amount of cheesiness to it, particularly with the cut-scenes. The precise gameplay enables you to relive some traditional moments too with varied weapons and totally different bugs, which I very a lot loved blasting by way of. Throwing a grenade at a giant tanker bug that got here up by way of the ground – perfection.

The human NPCs AI is a little bit on the weak facet although, they’re ridiculously silly and can stroll proper in entrance of your bullets, however in a approach that is a part of the allure right here – as everyone seems to be pure fodder, very similar to the unique film. The sport is all about you residing out that bug-stomping fantasy. Nonetheless, some tweaks to cease them simply wandering immediately in entrance of you might be wanted.