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Starship Troopers

Would you like to know more? Jump into epic battles featuring over 300 bugs on the screen at once, each with their own AI -- 19 different types of bugs to encounter Choose from 9 futuristic weapons, each with…

57 2 October 2005

Starship Troopers is a shooter developed by Strangelite Limited, released 2 October 2005 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Starship Troopers is

Starship Troopers is a shooter game developed by Strangelite Limited and released in 2005. It was published by Empire Interactive. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on SWARM.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Would you like to know more? Jump into epic battles featuring over 300 bugs on the screen at once, each with their own AI -- 19 different types of bugs to encounter Choose from 9 futuristic weapons, each with dual function attacks - From the standard-issue Morita rifle (as seen in the film) and shotgun to the plasma rifle and nuke launcher 12 single player levels with real-time battles and solo infiltration missions Varied combat environments - indoor and outdoor levels, including the wide-open battlefields, a secret laboratory, claustrophobic bug nests, abandoned mines and lonely outposts LAN and online modes, including death match and co-op missions
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Starship Troopers series

Starship Troopers is the third of 7 entries we hold in the Starship Troopers series. It arrived 5 years after Starship Troopers: Terran Ascendancy. The next entry was Starship Troopers: Terran Command in 2022. Its critic score of 57 is 10 points below the series average of 67. The highest-rated entry is Starship Troopers: Terran Command at 80.

See all 7 Starship Troopers games in release order →

How it was received

Starship Troopers holds a critic score of 57 out of 100. That places it above 16% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 10 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Starship Troopers launched on 2 October 2005, within three weeks of Shadow of the Colossus, Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy), Indigo Prophecy and F.E.A.R.. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Shadow of the Colossus, Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy), Indigo Prophecy, F.E.A.R..

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When did Starship Troopers come out?
Starship Troopers was released on 2 October 2005 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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