Rogue Trooper Review (PS2)

Age Rating: 16+ (PEGI)

What is it?
3rd person shooter based on the 2000AD comic strip.

Is it fun?
Yeah

Is it worth the money?
At £25 from play.com, yeah.

Tell me more please:
Aw, ok :)

Rebellion, the company who made this and who also bought 2000AD a few years back, also made the turd of a game otherwise known as Judge Dredd. So my hopes for a decent outing for Rogue and his Biochip buddies seemed bleak.

But hey, having played through the game I have to say it ain’t half bad; not bad at all. On normal mode it’s not too taxing, but definitely fun to play through. In the story you play a genetic infantry soldier fighting for survival on a futuristic war torn planet, so war-torn that the atmosphere is farked by all the chem gas so making it poisonous to humans. You are immune to it, thankfully. Your buddies all die due to a traitor general selling you out so it’s revenge time!

Heres a quick list of good points:

• Salvage – you pick this up to upgrade weapons and create ammo/medpacks. This works really well, like a constant shop you can dip into.
• The giant drills that emerge from the ground (enemy Norts follow) are just like the comic!
• Your biochip buddies (implanted in your hardware) work well to push along the plot and give hints and tips.
• Controls are good and you get a decent spread of weapons to muck about with.
• Loading screens are cool – a map of Nu Earth with your route path drawn as the loading progresses.

And some bad points:

• The story is kinda skimmed over, not clearly setting out what the war is about, why it is where it is etc…
• The traitor general’s face looks nothing like the comic, more like some laughable marshmallow. Not scary at all.
• Not enough specifically-designed situations in the levels to try out your unique weapons. I only deployed the sentry gun twice in the game, both of which were prescribed.
• Some of the vehicles designs are poo; they just dont have the style and finesse of the originals from the comic and look very derivative.
• When Rogue cuts the chips from his buddies’ skulls, he should be using a las-scalpel, not a blimmin’ knife! (I could go on…)

All in all really quite good, though 2000AD purists may be dismayed that it doesn’t look closer to the comic.

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