First revealed in 2022, Starship Troopers: Extermination, the upcoming FPS based mostly on the basic Starship Troopers films, has been in early entry for over a yr. Now, it lastly has a launch date, and it is also coming to consoles with a brand new mode in retailer.
Right this moment throughout IGN Stay, improvement staff Offworld (together with Sony Photos Shopper Merchandise) introduced that Starship Troopers: Extermination is formally headed to PlayStation 5, Xbox Sequence X|S, and PC on October 11. It is also receiving a singleplayer marketing campaign starring actor Casper Van Dien, who performed protagonist Johnny Rico within the unique movies.
Basic John “Johnny Rico” will command gamers, together with their three NPC allies unique to the sport, within the marketing campaign. The mode may have 25 missions, with a second chapter on its method after launch.
Offworld additionally talked about that crossplay might be enabled at launch. Moreover, the developer will quickly share extra details about the sport’s upcoming replace, which is slated for launch on the finish of June.
Starship Troopers: Extermination is a co-op PvE FPS recreation that lets as much as 16 gamers recreate the motion from the unique films and combat off seemingly countless alien bugs in a number of totally different modes. We gave it a 6 in our early entry evaluation, saying that “with a while, Extermination might turn out to be the premier bug-stomping romp for large groups,” and including that it “captures the movie’s breakneck tempo” in our preview.
Starship Troopers: Extermination can also be now being printed by Knights Peak, a brand new European division of MY.GAMES that introduced a number of extra video games at present.
Amelia Zollner is a contract author at IGN who loves all issues indie and Nintendo. Exterior of IGN, they’ve contributed to websites like Polygon and Rock Paper Shotgun, and so they’re at present creating a recreation referred to as Garage Sale. Discover them on Twitter: @ameliazollner.