You play an elite soldier known as a marauder and, just like Master Chief, your arrival is met with a mixture of awe and respect from the troops.

However, there's a lot more to it than that, and it starts from the first moment you step foot on Hesperus, the overrun mining planet on which the action takes place.Дropping into a chaotic battle zone, your first task is to secure a supply compound, dodging alien artillery and beating off a handful of warrior bugs along the way. Both take place in large outdoor environments, interspersed with a few dark alien interiors. Both games deal with a group of space marines invading an alien-infested landscape. For as much as Verhoeven's blockbuster provides the background and look for the game, the actual gameplay owes much more to the work of Bungie Studios. Indeed, having played the latest preview build of Starship Troopers -including a previously unseen level called Stronghold - we can assure you that a much bigger factor in your enjoyment will be how much you liked Halo. Whether you liked or disliked the film is by the wayside - it's just a convenient setting to hang a game on.

In many ways, it's a companion piece to Robocop, arguably Verhoeven's masterpiece.Д«ut then again, who cares? This is a game, a first-person shooter at that, which means incisive social commentary is out and frenetic bloody violence is in. Through a sheen of exaggerated violence and bad acting it manages to thoroughly ridicule America and its warmongering ways, and have a damn good time about it in the process. No Arguments now, Starship Troopers is a good film.

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