Dear Future Gamer

In response to Michael Yalonides' question this week on whether there is to be a Starship Troopers game, I have good news for you, but with good news there's always bad news. Originally, Starship Troopers was to be a third-person shooter. I think it had been in development for quite some time, but probably due to Quake III, UT and various other shooters which have just been released, that game was scrapped... only to be replaced by a real-time strategy game.

This game is obviously influenced by the movie but will be based more on the original book. This all sounds like good news, right? Well, we have to bear in mind that it is an RTS game and they don't usually tend to port well to the consoles, or they don't get released at all. The PC version is slated for a second quarter release from Microprose (yes, it's a game that survived the Microprose guillotine). Hope this helped you, Michael.

Rob Wilson

FG: Thanks for that. I think it could work well as an RTS, actually.