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.
Love the idea that a dude who grew up in the Hague during WWII doesn't understand fascism. Verhoeven is a flawed figure but I think he understands fascism just fine.
Biggest mistake Verhoeven made was assuming that Americans would look at a farce of a fascist society and wouldn't just say "Wow, just like me fr"
At that point he already had one corrosive/accurate satire of America flop hard (Showgirls) so I think he knew he was playing with fire. On the other hand it is extremely funny to hear him scream at the cast on the Starship Troopers DVD commentary that they're getting the themes wrong.
He says something about the core cast being exactly the kind of air heads they're playing in the movie. Caspar van Diem lobed being Johnny Rico and reprised the role a few times. Totally whoosh moment.