Rogue Trooper (Win/Mac)

List Price: $29.99 Discount Price: $0.95

Features:

• Intense split-screen and online multiplayer action
• Experience intense 3rd-person action on the battlefields of Nu Earth
• Rogue's friends brought to life in his equipment; create ammunition as needed
• Use upgradeable abilities of bio-chipped equipment to strategically outwit foes
• Dynamically use the environment to your advantage

Accessories:
PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine

Customer Reviews:

Great Game! [Posted on 2007-09-26]
Eidos has finally joined the great game club! This game on the hard level is challenging and enjoyable to play. Fast moving, great story line and plenty of movement to really show your skills. Highly recommend!

NOT for the MAC platform. [Posted on 2007-11-26]
This is not a review of the game but a comment on the WIN/MAC description on the "platform" specifications of the product. I only rated it since it is compulsory to post this note.
It is mentioned in this site that the game is, apparently, for both platforms. Also seems to indicate that the same item would work in both, as some other games do (E.G. "The Incredibles", "Myst V: End of Ages", "WoW", etc.). But alas, it is not so.
It is a mistake in the description.
There is no place in the Amazon site (nor any other that Google kindly placed at my disposition) that specifies or clarifies this point. Anyhow, being quite cheap I purchased it. After opening it I did find a Macintosh usable ".bin" file within the disc, but short of using ancient elvish words to open it, all I tried failed. All other files and literature in the CD and the box, said it was only for a PC.
This game does NOT work on either Macs, be those Pentium or of the "Gs". I have tried in both kinds and none takes warmly to it, that is using the OS. Using Windows in a Pentium Mac is another story, it does work. But then again, that is not Mac, it is Windows, and the description should state so.

Not for the Mac... [Posted on 2008-01-07]
This was advertised as a Mac platform game which it is not so I can't fairly rate this game as I cannot play it. I was, of-course, very disappointed.

Good Shooting Game but Little Storyline [Posted on 2008-02-16]
An adaptation of the comic of the same name, "Rogue Trooper" takes the futuristic setting and characters of the comic world and transfers them into a playable form.

Rogue Trooper takes place in the future on "Nu-Earth", a planet contested by two factions: The fascist Norts and the confederate Southers. Due to years of war, the surface of Nu World is poisonous to regular humans; thus, the Southers created the GIs, or Genetic Infantry, who were immune to the planet's toxins. GIs are all implanted with Bio-Chips that will sustain them should they fall in combat. The Bio-Chip can then be transferred to a piece of equipment for another GI. In Rogue Trooper, the main character is Rogue, a GI, and his team consists of three other soldiers, all of whom fall in combat and are put into one of Rogue's pieces of equipment. These characters pretty much define the gameplay.

Gunnar is the trooper put into Rogue's rifle. The rifle is the main (and pretty much only) weapon in the game, but it can be fitted with many attachments. These include a sniper scope, a silencer, and under-barrel weapons like shotguns and grenade launchers. Gunnar can also be deployed remotely as a sentry gun (leaving Rogue with only his pistol). Finally, Gunnar will auto-target enemies and can give an accuracy bonus to Rogue's shots. Bagman is the trooper in Rogue's backpack. The backpack contains robotic arms that will reload Rogue's weapons or give him necessary medical attention (via a syringe full of medical juice), both of which Bagman will do automatically if Rogue needs it. Bagman can also dispense mini-mines, either as controlled demolition or as a proximity mine. Rogue can collect salvage from dead enemy troopers or from scrap piles, which Bagman can convert into ammo and supplies. Bagman can also upgrade Rogue's gear and research new gear, such as grenades of various types. Helm is the trooper in Rogue's helmet. He serves as more of a technical unit; placing Rogue's helmet on a console allows Helm to hack into it. He can also create holographic decoys and make a loud noise to lure sentries over.

Gameplay is mostly run-and-gun.. Besides the rifle and its attachments, weapons in the game include mounted machine guns and rocket launchers, grenades of various types, and a pistol. The Norts are the game's enemies and have many different incarnations, though most share the weakness that they rely on their large oxygen tanks to keep them alive. Hitting them in the tank will make them explode, which can damage other nearby enemies as well. Rogue can take cover behind certain walls and shoot out from behind it. Stealth is also an option in some areas, and it tends to be helpful but not necessary. The game handles pretty well in general.

Voice acting is acceptable, but kind of weak. Gunnar, Bagman, and Helm all talk to Rogue, but the chatter tends to be fairly low-key and not really superbly written. The sound in general wasn't really notable.

As a whole, this is a good shooting game. The setting was neat (and is explored more in encyclopedia entries that are unlocked as you play the game) but the story is pretty much nonexistent (though to be fair it follows the plot of the comic almost exactly). It's a good game, with a lot of neat features, and it's simple enough at that.

7/10.

Not bad [Posted on 2008-06-27]
Pretty decent but regular fps. Nice aspects- if you know the 2000 AD series and some of the special abilities such as sentry gun and holographic projection are neat.

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