Starship Troopers Extermination just released a day or two a go. In this game sixteen players with absolutely dogshit guns, sub part jet packs, and 3 foot high barricade walls fight hordes of 15 foot tall space bugs for the glory of earth, humanity, and fascism.
I've only played one round of the game, idk if it's good or not, but the forum flame wars happening right now are hilarious. All the CHUDs who never found out that Verhoeven was laughing at them, and the die hard Heinlein enjoyers, are very mad that people are laughing at their politics and making fun of them. Much screaming of "THE CURTAINS ARE BLUE" and "Verhoeven is dumb and doesn't know what fascism is".
Making this game at this time is a bold ass move. In a single player game you don't communicate with anyone, but in a multi player FPS game you can have discourse. I look fondly ahead towards some of the epic gamer moments this game will surely create.
it looks ok, not very deep at all though. also i don't buy early access games on principle. there has been so many games abandoned while still in early access status.
I'll buy ea games if I like the core idea just on the off chance it gets finished. And for a lot of them, even if they're not great, i'll get 9-10 hours out of them which I consider a fair trade for the usual 20$ price tag. A lot of the time I'll check in once or twice. Ayear just to see how development is going.
It's really good already, which is my standard for Early Access. I just ignore future features