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Subject: Re: Starship Troopers (was Re: Microid's 2024 Empire of the Ants demo
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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 18:30:34 -0700
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On 10/25/2024 8:53 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 07:54:16 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
> 
>> Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 20:15:24 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
>>
>>>> Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>>> Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles
>>>>> Did it right for the most part.
>>>>> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190198/
>>>>
>>>> An animated series? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-vMSgwwsw0 for the first episode? Hmm!
>>
>>> Roughnecks was surprisingly good, even if it was dumbed down to make
>>> it more palatable to the kiddies (and less objectionable to the
>>> parents/broadcast standards committee)
>>
>>> At least it had powered battle armor. That put it head and shoulders
>>> above the Verhoeven movie!
>>
>> I finally watched it yesterday, but I wasn't impressed. I will stick with the first live action movie. :P
>>
>> Speaking of action games, were there any Starship Troopers ACTION games?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> There was a 2005 first-person shooter released by Empire called -ever
> so imaginatively- "Starship Troopers". It... wasn't very good. The
> level design was humdrum, it took too long to put down even low-level
> enemies, and the overall design was just poor.

So, just like the first movie.  :P

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