Helldivers 2 has been one of 2024's big hits, and found a huge audience ready to spread managed democracy across the galaxy. The game's setting has one inspiration above all others: Paul Verhoeven's film Starship Troopers, loosely based on the Robert Heinlein novel. The game is packed with references and tributes, and sparked some renewed interest in the movie, with even Casper Van Dien (main character Johnny Rico in Starship Troopers) calling it "really quite wonderful."
This interest may have come at a fortunate time for Starship Troopers: Extermination, a promising 16-player co-op FPS from developer Offworld that's currently in early access, and it certainly seems to have woken it up to the opportunity of a slam-dunk celebrity partnership. Offworld has now announced that ST: Extermination will be fully released in October, featuring a singleplayer campaign where Caspar Van Dien as Johnny Rico is your commander.
