Starship Troopers: Extermination

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Starship Troopers: Extermination is a pulpy, schlocky and suitably violent take on the Starship Troopers universe that gives you big beefy guns and a ton of exploding alien bugs to get busy decimating in online warfare. There are some big old hordes to take down, thanks to some impressive tech on display, and everything looks and feels properly great when you're in the thick of the acid-spewing action. However, there are way too many technical bugs just now, this doesn't feel like a game that just left a prolonged early access, and so for now it's a janky-but-fun experience that, with a couple...

Starship Troopers: Extermination on console puts the rough in Roughnecks. Technical issues, poor crossplay implementation, and frustratingly chaotic gameplay design leave much to be desired.

Starship Troopers: Extermination has some fun bug-slaying action, but poor performance and less-than-stellar content. It is fun, but matchmaking issues and a lack of campaign mode hamper replayability in co-op. Wait for fixes or sale before buying.

Starship Troopers: Extermination brings a knife to a nuke fight. It’s a co-op shooter you and some friends can find fun in, but it doesn't hold a candle to other games with similar themes we've seen this year.

With a beloved IP and a promising gameplay loop, Starship Troopers: Extermination started with all the potential in the world. Unfortunately, its exit from early access falters due to technical issues and questionable design decisions.

Starship Troopers: Extermination is a frustrating game. Not because of the challenge, but because it’s so close to being good only to crash into the ground in a heap of green blood and mandibles. The technical glitches, poor lighting and unrewarding progression system interfere with the moments that capture the feel of the action from the film. With some patches and expansion, this title could be fantastic. In its current state, players would be better off going back to Earth Defense Force or Helldivers II.

What do you get when you pit 16 heavily armed strangers against hordes of alien bugs and teamwork-centric objectives? The complete and utter chaos of Starship Troopers: Extermination.