Starship Troopers: Extermination

In the Space Imperialist vs Alien war for your attention, Starship Troopers: Extermination brings a knife to a nuke fight. It’s a shooter you and some friends can find fun in, especially in its tough Horde mode using its simple-yet-distinct classes that help focus the overall large-scale bug-blasting vision. But you’re doing so in spite of how long it takes to unlock all the more interesting gear and abilities those classes have in store, how uncoordinated some of the multiplayer modes are, how downright bad the single-player campaign is, how barren the handful of available maps feel, and the lack of biodiversity in the bug swarm. It’s a serviceable battle that can get frantic in the thick of it, but there are far more noble causes to give your virtual lives for in 2024 than this.

Starship Troopers: Extermination's cooperative battles are mechanically innovative and can be enormous fun, but a general lack of polish and a slapdash single-player hold it back from greatness.

The whole aesthetic of the missions and the menus is retro PS3 at its best, but unfortunately the game's performance tanks when too many bugs are on screen, which is most of the time. Still, clambering over their corpses as the bodies pile up and making a final dash toward the extraction is a blast, and if you're a fan of Helldivers, this is a solid evolution of the genre and well worth your time.

Starship Troopers: Extermination is a frustrating game. Not because of the challenge, but because it’s so close to being good only to crash into the ground in a heap of green blood and mandibles. The technical glitches, poor lighting and unrewarding progression system interfere with the moments that capture the feel of the action from the film. With some patches and expansion, this title could be fantastic. In its current state, players would be better off going back to Earth Defense Force or Helldivers II.

Starship Troopers: Extermination brings the chaotic, large-scale battles of the franchise to life through cooperative gameplay. While the visuals lack polish and the solo campaign falls flat, the multiplayer experience offers dynamic missions, teamwork, and unique mechanics like corpse permanence. Despite technical issues, the game delivers exciting and chaotic fun, making it a decent choice for fans of the Starship Troopers universe.

Starship Troopers: Extermination is a fun, cooperative shooter that's easy to get into and hard to put down. Its clever base-building mechanics and ridiculous chaos are a delight, but constant performance issues, bugs, and instability keep it from greatness.

Starship Troopers: Extermination is a chaotically fun game, especially for you to play with friends and de-stress after a tiring day at work. However, keep in mind that you will encounter bugs, and I'm not just talking about the giant insects that you really wanted to find to exterminate, but also collision errors, such as soldiers stuck in rocks or floating, insects appearing out of nowhere in front of you, and very crappy explosion and flame effects, like in the early days of video games.

What it all boils down to is that despite its rough edges, tech issues and underwhelming single-player campaign, fans of the movie should get plenty of joy out of Starship Troopers: Extermination.

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Starship Troopers Extermination is aimed above all at the most hardcore fans of the franchise.