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News - This Helldivers 2 Competitor Is Out Today, Do You Want To Know More?
<p>There are plenty of <a href="https://www.gamespot.com/gallery/the-biggest-game-releases-of-october-2024/2900-5767/">high-profile releases out this month</a>, but if you're looking to do your part in the ongoing war with bugs, you can now grab <a href="https://www.gamespot.com/games/starship-troopers-extermination/">Starship Troopers: Extermination</a> on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. It's launching in a post-Helldivers 2 gaming landscape, but if there's one thing that makes a bug hunt stand out in this game, it's that it allows for larger 16-person squads of Mobile Infantry grunts to be deployed and it makes use of a base-building gameplay mechanic.</p><p>"We're full 16-player, we have a different gameplay loop, we have building as a core component of our loop," <a href="https://www.gamespot.com/articles/starship-troopers-extermination-has-a-key-feature-helldivers-2-lacks/1100-6524448/">game lead Peter Maurice said to GameSpot in an interview</a>. When you dig deeper, you pull that one layer off, you can see that there's two really distinct games: They kill bugs. We are the bug game."</p><p>Both games do feature some similarities--like an ongoing galactic war metagame, cosmetics, and cheeky satire--but Helldivers 2 was inspired by Starship Troopers whereas Extermination is a licensed adaptation based on the IP made popular by the 1997 Paul Verhoeven-directed film.</p><a href="https://www.gamespot.com/articles/this-helldivers-2-competitor-is-out-today-do-you-want-to-know-more/1100-6527120/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f/">Continue Reading at GameSpot</a>
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<p>There are plenty of <a href="https://www.gamespot.com/gallery/the-biggest-game-releases-of-october-2024/2900-5767/">high-profile releases out this month</a>, but if you're looking to do your part in the ongoing war with bugs, you can now grab <a href="https://www.gamespot.com/games/starship-troopers-extermination/">Starship Troopers: Extermination</a> on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. It's launching in a post-Helldivers 2 gaming landscape, but if there's one thing that makes a bug hunt stand out in this game, it's that it allows for larger 16-person squads of Mobile Infantry grunts to be deployed and it makes use of a base-building gameplay mechanic.</p><p>"We're full 16-player, we have a different gameplay loop, we have building as a core component of our loop," <a href="https://www.gamespot.com/articles/starship-troopers-extermination-has-a-key-feature-helldivers-2-lacks/1100-6524448/">game lead Peter Maurice said to GameSpot in an interview</a>. When you dig deeper, you pull that one layer off, you can see that there's two really distinct games: They kill bugs. We are the bug game."</p><p>Both games do feature some similarities--like an ongoing galactic war metagame, cosmetics, and cheeky satire--but Helldivers 2 was inspired by Starship Troopers whereas Extermination is a licensed adaptation based on the IP made popular by the 1997 Paul Verhoeven-directed film.</p><a href="https://www.gamespot.com/articles/this-helldivers-2-competitor-is-out-today-do-you-want-to-know-more/1100-6527120/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f/">Continue Reading at GameSpot</a>
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