Against my better judgement (thanks to the fact that DreddVsDeath was less than brilliant) i’m starting to get really excited about this
I’m a really big fan of the comic and so far the graphics are looking pretty spot on. I’m really looking forward to trekking across new earth with bickering bio chips in tow.
Here’s hoping they get it right cos i think the IP has the potential to make a really great game for fans and newcomers alike.
Anyone heard anything about it on the grapevine?
played it at wizard world. I was less than impressed. They had some cool things but the demo i saw (could not play) seemed pretty vanilla. Don’t give up on the game it was only a demo.
Bugger, that sounds less than hopeful then :-(
Unfortunately i think it’s gone past whether giving up on the game now, i’m buying it whether my brain likes it or not, my childhood demands it!
Thanks for info, still keep my fingers crossed.
Holy hypersexualized female meshes, batman. The oversized bosoms and bottoms on the women in this game make even me uncomfortable.
Welcome to 80’s comic books. At least it’s not Strontium Dog they’re doing in this, there was a character in that with even more improbable porportions. You never noticed Judges Anderson or Hershey in Judge Dredd?
It really depended on the artist. Some were more pneumatically-inclined than others.
I don’t get the love for Rogue Trooper. Back then the feeling was that it was a pretty poor story, albeit well drawn at times, and if we wanted silly war stories we’d have bought Warlord.
The hyper-homoeroticism of the opening scenes with hundreds of hunky bare-blued chested men perhaps takes away from that. A Little.
The game’s actually pretty good, by the way. I liked it a lot.
KG
Bought the game on release day and have been waiting for the other shoe to drop since, but so far so i’m enjoying it plenty. The game succeeds in giving you a feeling of being a real badass and the interaction between rogue and the biochips is pretty well handled.
As has been mentioned the art for some of the female characters tends toward the pneumatic end of the spectrum but thats a pretty minor gripe considering my love of breasts.
I’ve heard rumours it’s a bit on the short side so i’m trying to savour the last of the game that’s left.
Not exactly what i’d call a challenge so far, but definately worth a punt for new initiates to the story once it drops a bit in price and pretty much a must buy for fans of the series that have been holding off for fear of sullying childhood memories.
We need a Nemesis video game.
Be pure.
Be vigilant.
Behave.
There already has been a Nemesis game - for the Holy Spectrum. It was a platformer, and shit, but it was made in the days that even movie licenses were given to teenagers to design and develop in Mancunian sweatshops.
As for Rogue Trooper, well it’s certainly a lot better than its 8-bit predecessor! I’m having great fun with it. They’ve really gone to town to make the player feel like a badass. I think the single player campaign is far better than those found in Halo 1 & 2 too, but there may be some bias in that due to my love for the strip as a kid. I keep replaying each fight after I’ve cleared it once, to see how I could approach it differently, and the variety in Rogue’s equipment and the ease with which it’s all deployed makes that a joy. I love the comments from the chips when you make a good shot (“Nice shootin’, you PSYCHO!”), or chain a number of kills together quickly.
If I have a criticism it’s that some of the texture work for buildings and backgrounds is awful. I was watching one cutscene last night, where Rogue is on a train, and the texture behind him was just a blur of grey - no definition or detail at all. Not good in this day and age.
While RT won’t win any best of year awards, it’s nice to see a team not make a complete pig’s ear of a 2000AD license, and actually come up with a good game that’s true to the source material.
Hey how’s this for a crazy thread necro - Rebellion have announced they are releasing a remastered version of Rogue Trooper. They put a video on YouTube announcing this, sorry I am working on my phone and having difficulty with a link.
I remember I liked this game in a low-key kind of way. I liked that you could prop up your rifle as a tripod to fire on enemies while you flanked with a pistol. I’ll probably have to try this one out.
It was better than it had any right to be, but I’m not sure how it would hold up against the likes of Wolfenstein unless you’re super into the lore aspect. I’ve got no desire to play it again.
I remember enjoying, but i had low expectations. I would play it again knowing it isn’t going to be spectacular.
I presume they will upgrade the graphics, but what would make me play it would be if they modernized the controls.
We’ve got a release date for the remaster, October 27. Also a price: $24.99/£19.99/€19.99, which I think isn’t too shabby. I’ll be grabbing a copy.
My memory is really fuzzy on this. Is this the game that got famous because Mickey Rourke did the voice-over as the main character?
No, that’s Rogue Warrior I think. Easy mistake to make. This was the one with the blue dudes.
Wow, so Rebellion did a game called Rogue Warrior and a completely different game called Rogue Trooper? Were the two games related or in the same universe at least?
This is like discovering the difference between the Sniper Elite series and the …er… other Sniper series.
Was Rogue Warrior by Rebellion? I never played it but I saw a Let’s Play on YouTube, really only amusing for Mickey Rourke’s creative swearing.
But no, the two games have nothing to do with each other. Rogue Trooper, which this thread is about, is a 2000AD property like Judge Dredd. It’s about a future war on a poisonous planet which the troopers have been bred to survive and wage war on. Rogue Warrior, as best I recall, is about a present day one-man-army invasion of North Korea. Think it’s based on the memoirs of an actual Navy Seal? Something like that, anyway.
Bethesda.