New Starship Troopers Demo Now Available

Grab a Rocket Launcher and Blast that Plasma Bug, Marauder!

San Francisco and Minneapolis – Nov. 18, 2005 – Empire Interactive and Destineer Studios have released a new playable demo of Starship Troopers for the PC. The action takes place on what has become known as Plasma Mountain. Baby Plasma Bugs on the ground are attacking your fleet and have already taken out airborne cruisers. Federation pilots can’t get to the massive Plasma Bug, hiding in deep cover in the mountain. First wave troopers are down there, waiting for reinforcements. Your mission is to lead a force of troopers in the assault to the summit to find and destroy that plasma bug. The fleet’s future is in your hand, Marauder!

This exclusive ‘Plasma Mountain’ playable demo from Starship Troopers the videogame – delivers more than 15 minutes of hardcore, bug-blasting action, providing the bugs don’t get you first! Watch out for the Sentinel bugs along the way – their flash blinds anyone in range and is a wake–up call to every bug around. Concentrate on the Plasma Bug’s weak spots – the head and the rear. Take them down with your Rocket Launcher or your MK2 Rifle. If all else fails you’ll have to go in close to the head with your shotgun.

Players will become totally immersed in immense bug-blasting battles in both famous action-packed scenes from Paul Verhoeven’s classic movie and never-before-experienced settings and stories from the Starship Troopers universe.

Heed your General’s battle cry as you run into another swarm of bugs: “Come on you apes, you wanna live forever?”

Game Features

• SWARM Engine allows epic battles featuring 300+ bugs on screen at once, each with its own individual AI, boasting 20 times more action than you will have ever seen before.
• 19 different types of non-humanoid enemy bugs to encounter.
• License that covers the whole Starship Troopers universe. The books, graphic novels, films and TV series are just the beginning.
• Voice-over commentary by Casper van Dien, aka Johnny Rico, now the general who introduces some of the missions for you.
• 9 weapons, each with dual function attacks. Weapons include the standard Morita rifle (seen in the film) as well as the plasma rifle, shotgun and rocket launcher, plus a variety of new and exciting items such as intelligent grenades and the infamous nuke launcher.
• 12 single player levels including a mix of huge real-time battles on an epic scale 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.
• Plus LAN and online modes including death match and co-op mode.

System Specs: Recommended: 3.0ghz CPU, 1Gb RAM, GeForce 6800 or Radeon X800 [1024x768 with shadows], DirectX 9.0c, 600mb free hard drive space, Windows XP ONLY, DirectX compatible PCI soundcard.

Minimum: 2.0ghz CPU, 512mb RAM, GeForce FX5900 or Radeon 9800 [800x600 with shadows], DirectX 9.0c, 600mb free hard drive space, Windows XP ONLY.

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