ignatios on 2/9/2006 at 17:27
The box claims co-op multiplayer, does that mean the whole campaign?
june gloom on 2/9/2006 at 17:40
no, it's basically just trying to achieve objectives such as defend or attack in a few small maps.
michaelg on 2/9/2006 at 21:20
I just looked the game up and someone said you can complete it in 6 hrs.
Is that true, or is that someone who rushed through?
If it is I may wait until it comes down in price a bit.
Thanks.
Malf on 2/9/2006 at 23:48
It's true, but I keep going back for more, even though I've completed it twice now.
It just feels
right.
If you're in the UK, you can get it from (
www.play.com) for a tenner, and you can't go wrong at that price.
Corking little game :)
Malygris on 3/9/2006 at 05:09
Pity it's third-person only. It sounds intriguing, but without a first-person perspective it's completely off the table.
june gloom on 3/9/2006 at 06:07
i disagree. if it were first person a lot of the stuff you can do (effectively hide behind cover, stick your gun out and fire blindly to force the enemy to find cover, etc.) wouldn't be possible, or at the very least would be unintuitive. if you ask me, if it were first person it wouldn't nearly be as fun.
yeah, i know, coming from me that's really weird.
Shadowcat on 26/1/2014 at 12:05
I just finished this, and thought I'd chip in to agree that it's excellent.
Last week I played Gears of War for the first time, and found it pretty uninspiring (as a single-player game; I can well believe it's a much better game in co-op). I had started on the medium difficulty, but ended up dropping back to the easy setting, just because the enemies took too long to die otherwise, and I was finding the combat a bit tedious. I didn't hate it -- I played it through to the end -- but having done that I had no real desire to play any more of it, so I uninstalled it.
For some reason I then decided that it was about time I got around to playing Rogue Trooper (which I had picked up years ago, on account of comments here at TTLG; quite likely this thread, in fact), and I was bemused to find how incredibly similar the gameplay mechanics are in this older game, particularly the cover system (including firing out of cover, blind firing, moving between cover points).
The big difference is that where Gears was a little bit dull, Rogue Trooper is a lot of fun. The setting is great; story is decent; the banter from the A.I. chips is quite fun (even though I would have liked more of it); graphics are showing their age, but still very nice. Sound is good; voices are pretty good for the most part. I think where it mostly wins, though, is variety. Gears largely seemed to be the same thing over and over (I'm not 100% sure it actually was, but that was the impression I came away with), but Rogue Trooper likes to mix things up more. There's more to do, and you certainly get more weapon types, and better situations to use them in.
I can definitely see myself playing this through again.
gunsmoke on 26/1/2014 at 16:43
Agree 100%
june gloom on 26/1/2014 at 16:51
I love how I compare it unfavourably to Thief and System Shock. I was retarded back then.
faetal on 26/1/2014 at 18:18
Everyone was. Chemtrails man.
