Rogue Trooper [STEAM] $1.49 USD from Amazon

A blast from the past. Currently $4 USD on Steam (normally $10).

Nu Earth: a poisoned planet where a seemingly endless war rages between the Norts and the Southers. A futile struggle on a hostile planet with no clear end in sight.

But there are tales of a lone warrior. A man who can appear out of thin air and take out whole platoons, then disappear back into the shadows to which he belongs. A man who knows no allegiance but to his own mission and is hell-bent on revenge. He is the ultimate soldier, the last survivor of the massacred Genetic Infantrymen…

…the Rogue Trooper!

• Intense 3rd-person action on the battlefields of Nu Earth.
• Use of Helm, Gunnar and Bagman: Rogue's friends brought to life in his equipment, adding depth to the gaming experience.
• Ability to create the type of ammunition you want, when you want it.
• Dynamically use the environment to your advantage - conform to objects and terrain, and fire from protected positions. Athletically climb over the environment to gain the advantage over your enemy. Run, leap, and dive for cover.
• Use the unique upgradeable abilities of your Bio-chipped equipment to strategically outwit your foes.
• Intense split-screen and online multiplayer action.

Rogue Trooper is a third-person shooter video game developed by Rebellion Developments and published by Eidos Interactive. It was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2 and Xbox on April 21, 2006. The Wii version, entitled Rogue Trooper: The Quartz Zone Massacre, was released later in 2009.

The game uses several story and plot elements from the original comic. This is the second game Rebellion produced based on characters from the pages of 2000 AD; the first being Judge Dredd: Dredd Vs. Death in 2003.

The game is a third-person shooter. Rogue's primary arsenal are his pistol and assault rifle, with the latter being upgradeable throughout the course of the game. The rifle may be outfitted with a silencer at any time, or deployed as a sentry turret. As the game progresses the player unlocks the ability to outfit the rifle with a sniper attachment, a shotgun attachment, a cluster mortar attachment, and an anti-aircraft rocket launcher electric beam rifle. Other weapons include deployable micro mines, incendiary grenades, scrambler grenades fragmentation and sticky grenades plus heavy machine gun posts and flak cannons scattered across the field with occasional use of lazooka rocket launchers and hell cannons.

Rogue's survival is ensured through clever use of the battlefield, which is generally rife with cover. He is able to fire while stationary, on the run, crouching, diving, and around the corner of any form of cover. Rogue also has the ability to unleash suppressive fire, which consumes a small amount of ammo and fires blindly from cover to intimidate enemies and cause them to find cover of their own. Enemies are highly susceptible to headshots, which will generally down them in a single strike. Another feature of gunplay is the ability to shoot an enemy soldier's gas tank. Targeting the head displays a skull and crossbones, while targeting the gas tank shows a rectangular shape. Penetrating a gas tank will cause enemies to run frantically and then explode, damaging any other enemies nearby.

Rogue may search fallen enemy and ally bodies to recover Salvage, the game's main resource, and a necessity for purchasing any of Bagman's supplies. Salvage is used to create all forms of ammunition and grenades, med-kits and arsenal upgrades. Scrap piles may also be found and looted for a considerable amount of Salvage.

In 2006 the screenplay, written by Gordon Rennie, and the character Rogue, were both nominated for BAFTAs.

- Wikipedia

- Steam page
- GameSpot Review: "Rogue Trooper is at times a very exciting and enjoyable shooter, which makes it all the more disappointing that it's over so soon."
- Metacritic: 69% critics (25); 83% users (40)
- YouTube gamplay (skip ahead to around 5 min mark)
- Widescreen support: instructions in the Steam forum

If you're unconvinced, feed this screenshot to your imagination…