Watch this trailer for Starship Troopers: Extermination as hordes of insectoid aliens attack and are dealt with during fierce combat. Starship Troopers: Exte...
This is a co-op FPS with 16-player PvE and by looking at the teaser it also involes base building, so not exactly the same type of game.
As for the narrative, Helldivers is obviously based on the Starship Troopers movie (the plot, the action, even the “patriotic theme”), which itself was heavily inspired by StarCraft. So no one is really “replicating Helldivers narrative” here.
This is a co-op FPS with 16-player PvE and by looking at the teaser it also involes base building, so not exactly the same type of game.
spot on
As for the narrative, Helldivers is obviously based on the Starship Troopers movie (the plot, the action, even the “patriotic theme”), which itself was heavily inspired by StarCraft.
!?? I read Heinlein’s Starship Troopers in the early 80s lol, not sure you meant that the way it reads. ST the book and subsequent verhooven movie were not inspired by Starcraft.
Holy shit! I had no idea it was based on a book! The movie really looked like StarCraft without the Protoss. So the rabbit whole goes even deeper, good to know.
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This is a co-op FPS with 16-player PvE and by looking at the teaser it also involes base building, so not exactly the same type of game.
As for the narrative, Helldivers is obviously based on the Starship Troopers movie (the plot, the action, even the “patriotic theme”), which itself was heavily inspired by StarCraft. So no one is really “replicating Helldivers narrative” here.
spot on
!?? I read Heinlein’s Starship Troopers in the early 80s lol, not sure you meant that the way it reads. ST the book and subsequent verhooven movie were not inspired by Starcraft.
Holy shit! I had no idea it was based on a book! The movie really looked like StarCraft without the Protoss. So the rabbit whole goes even deeper, good to know.
the book is fantastic but doesn’t really emphasize a lot of the fun themes you’ll find in the film. worth a read, it’s short af.
Almost as if the movie was made into a satire of the book it’s based on 😱🤯
yes, but also, it explores the universe heinlein created in ways i’m certain he never anticipated (talking heads on TV shows being a great example).
it is a right wing libertarian manifesto, but good book is still good book.
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