It doesn't retain the film's satire, but it does use the same visual style: The grunts of the Terran Mobile Infantry, the enemy bugs, and the landscapes are all depicted exactly as they were in the movie by Paul Verhoeven.
Though it is based on the book, the game appropriates a lot of its design from the 1997 movie. Unfortunately, it also has poor documentation, a frustrating save system, and a general lack of any tactical depth. Starship Troopers combines the unit-based tactical combat of games such as Myth: The Fallen Lords along with the futuristic setting and character-building elements of games such as X-COM: UFO Defense. Its publisher, MicroProse, describes it as a 'strategy role-playing' game, although it's more tactical than strategic, and its role-playing elements are slim. More than 40 years after the book was first published, Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers has finally become the subject of a computer game.
