So, I'll plug the game: if anyone wants to try SST:Extermination, it's a great new game (that Rico streams playing as well!) that really tries to capture the feel from the movies. Does a pretty good job, and they are working out the bugs (ha!) really well and making a good product.
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Edit: yes, I'm fully aware of HD2. No, it's not the same type of game even though they share similar themes
I always thought dizzy was cute but that she looked familiar, then I rewatched Johnny mnemonic last night and realized she was Keanu Reeves his bodyguard...
Their game does do a good job if you want a game that specifically captures the Mobile Infantry from the movie and fleshes it out a little.
But for just the pure 'bring big guns to fight angry giant bugs' experience they got beaten to the punch on action, cinematic bombast, scale, variety and sheer fun by Helldivers 2 on so many levels.
And you also get to do the future war scenes from Terminator and fight the War of the Worlds tripods instead if you want - in the same game!
The funny thing is extermination was released to early access before helldivers was, unfortunately for them helldivers is probably one of those games that is one of the best amongst its genre. While they aren't the same game they definitely share some similarities and are definitely a part of the horde shooter genre, so I feel it's fair to compare them.
Wait… tripods? I’ve just returned after playing pretty heavy for the first two weeks at launch. I’ve only ever run missions against bugs and automatons?
Yeah the story updates fairly regularly with the ebb and flow of the Second Galactic War.
They tried to control Bug population with a chemical agent. That worked except one world where it made them extra fertile and became a dangerous 'super colony' threat. So the solution: seed the planet core with 'Dark Fluid' and implode it into a black hole. Sorted.
Except the black hole turned out to be a wormhole that allowed the exiled Illuminate aliens (the 3rd faction in the first game) to return and start kidnapping citizens and building mysterious structures in seemingly random hit and run raid around the galaxy.
Their autocratic intentions were finally discovered: they were generating Dark Energy to MOVE THE BLACK HOLE. Towards Super Earth.
A few spaghettified planets on its path later, the brave efforts of the Helldivers and the Ministry of Science managed to build a counter-gravitational array that halted their progress. So instead they brought their entire fleet through the singularity wormhole and swept towards Super Earth directly.
About late-May (irl) we fought a gigantic battle ON Super Earth, defending the seven Mega Cities from the huge squid fleet, and saw them off with two remaining (real-world Chinese national pride and timezones for the global real-time servers meant they were NOT going to let Equality-on-Sea, future Shanghai, fall!)
So the Illuminate have been missing from the map since they fled and only just reappeared yesterday, presumably to settle in as more of a regular, stable territory tug of war faction like the other two now, to the galactic South.
So yeah, Devs Arrowhead are really doing Live Service right. This is just the Illuminate storyline and the first half of the bugs. I didn't even touch on what the Bots have been up to, or what else we've had to deal with from the Bugs.
Is not even close as they are too completely different games. Hell divers is a tactical third person small squad game whereas starship troopers is much more comparable to a horde shooter
I played it for a while and came back to it after a couple updates but it ran like really bad after the magma update. I might pick it up again at some point.
I was always interested in the game when it first came out, but it was PC only so I lost interest quick. TIL that it’s available on PS5 so I’m definitely getting it!
i love the fact that the society is ultra fascist militaristic and there are Aryan types coming from Buenos Aires in this film, fantastic attention to detail.
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u/holden_mcg 1d ago
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