Empire Interactive has announced expanded multi player support forits PC sci-fi title, Starship Troopers
7 new maps are available for download immediately to expand your Starship Troopers online game play. Additionally, there's the ability to search for all types of multiplayer games simultaneously. You can obtain all these improvements by visiting the game website, follow the download tab above.
The updates includes 4 new Deathmatch/Team Deathmatch maps - Bait, Duel, Hill and Offensive in the straight head to head mode where up to 32 players are pitted against each other in various arenas, the objective being to kill your opponents and claim your top score place. Team Deathmatch allows players to team up and collectively aim for their place at the top of the kill table.
Also included are 3 new Co-operative maps - Bait, Psiops and Stronghold, allowing up to 8 players to form their own squad of Mobile Infantry and play together to defeat the bugs. Here's the desperate situation in one of the new maps: Whilst transporting a squadron of Marauders back to their command ship, your ship is hit and downed in the heart of Bug territory. You've got a Mech Trooper who can fix the ship but he needs some spares, which must be located from another busted ship. This is hostile territory and the arachnids know you're there - but if everyone stays behind to protect the mechanic, who is going to get the parts from the broken drop ship?
Starship Troopers attempts to capture the magic of Paul Verhoeven's classic original movie. The player is immersed in immense bug-blasting battles in both famous action-packed scenes from the Starship Troopers universe.
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 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.
- Now 20 map combinations for LAN and online modes Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch and Co-operative modes.
