I had some nostalgia playing this title, not for Rogue Trooper itself but for the 5th console generation experience of the mid 2000's. Mostly the original Xbox.
It reminded me of playing games such as Brute Force, Star Wars: Republic Commando and Freedom Fighters. Rogue Trooper doesn't stand above the games I mentioned but more than likely stands beside them.
This remaster captured the raw essence of the 5th gen console experience. Stiff controls, sluggish movement, awkward camera controls. And yes, they are flaws in its design but it's to the point of being endearing.
The depth offered in the gameplay is quite surprising, there are a multitude of ways to approach combat. You can go in guns blazing or take a stealthy approach. But the best means of combat is using the unique effects of your equipment.
You can deploy your gun as a sentry turret to attack and distract the enemy whilst flanking them and firing a torrent of tactical mines on their position, flushing them out of cover and herding them directly into the line of fire of your sentry.
Overall, I enjoyed the brief time I had with this game. The experience was marred by the game design conventions found in a twenty year old game. But the remaster did enough to keep things interesting.
The experience was short and sweet, a nice palette cleanser from between all the JRPG's I usually frequent. Really, it's just something to play and finish over a weekend.
It reminded me of playing games such as Brute Force, Star Wars: Republic Commando and Freedom Fighters. Rogue Trooper doesn't stand above the games I mentioned but more than likely stands beside them.
This remaster captured the raw essence of the 5th gen console experience. Stiff controls, sluggish movement, awkward camera controls. And yes, they are flaws in its design but it's to the point of being endearing.
The depth offered in the gameplay is quite surprising, there are a multitude of ways to approach combat. You can go in guns blazing or take a stealthy approach. But the best means of combat is using the unique effects of your equipment.
You can deploy your gun as a sentry turret to attack and distract the enemy whilst flanking them and firing a torrent of tactical mines on their position, flushing them out of cover and herding them directly into the line of fire of your sentry.
Overall, I enjoyed the brief time I had with this game. The experience was marred by the game design conventions found in a twenty year old game. But the remaster did enough to keep things interesting.
The experience was short and sweet, a nice palette cleanser from between all the JRPG's I usually frequent. Really, it's just something to play and finish over a weekend.
This game is good
Look I can see people back in the day renting the original game from block buster for a weekend but nowadays I don't see the point in this. Why remake a mediocre game and change nothing in it? Of course it's gonna be shit. If your not a fan of 2000 A.D or have never heard of it the plot makes absolutely no sense. You have to go into the encyclopedia in the main menu to get a taste of lore and that's only if you collect enough scraps. The original comic art looks really good but it translated horribly into 3d graphics. There are absolutely no stakes your just going on a 5 hour revenge hunt and the gunplay is just horrible. It gives you the illusion of having a bunch of weapons but you only use 2 of them, the gunner and the pistols as the other 5 weapons are only for certain situations and I'm not even counting the shotgun it sucks so bad. It tries to do a fun gimmick as you can only buy your ammo by salvage parts from dead enemies, but you'll just be buying med kits and ammo for your gunner so there's really no point in it.
My brother got this game from best buy for like 4 dollars and at that point just buy a big Mac you'll get much more enjoyment out of that than this game.
My brother got this game from best buy for like 4 dollars and at that point just buy a big Mac you'll get much more enjoyment out of that than this game.