11/19/2022 0 Comments Rogue trooper![]() ![]() He's basically Clint Eastwood playing topless Superman. Rogue is a Genetic Infantryman fighting for the Southers, a clone born in a vat and designed from the DNA up to be resistant to the many environmental horrors of Nu-Earth. ![]() Theoretically the latter are the heroes, though war naturally means blurred lines. The original Rogue Trooper was set on Nu-Earth, a blasted, blighted planet reduced to near-inhabitability by warfare, on which an endless, brutal battle between the Norts and the Southers. I should also mention the wonderful skyboxes - fractal explosions, suggesting a universe ripping itself to pieces even as this little mudball sinks into itself. Blue against brown: it's not what we traditionally ask for from our game art, but given crisp edges and detailed shapes even at a distance, it becomes something a little special. Rogue Trooper has a limited colour palette - mostly brown, with a incongruously but appealingly blue protagonist - and this is appropriate to the comic it's based on. ![]() I will admit that Rogue Trooper is not really beautiful, but something impressive emerges when a 9 year old game is dragged up to a resolution of 3200x1800. I suspect no-one who worked on this game ever expected it to look quite like this, that this game was never designed to look like this. It makes a game that is not beautiful accidentally sort-of-beautiful, or at least striking. I had to hack hex files and use virtual resolutions in my graphics card drivers to do this, so it was a bit of a fiddle. (Click the screenshots for full-size versions, or there's a slideshow widget thingy at the end of the words). Primarily, I thought I'd make a 4K gallery of it. But it is an extremely well-judged action game that is extremely true to its source material. Death seemed like a hollow disservice to the character and his world, Rogue Trooper was a very straightforward game which just nailed it, and took me right back to why I used to love the surly blue guy. I was all about 2000AD at a certain point in my life, enough so that an attachment to the holy trinity - Dredd, Johnny Alpha, Rogue Trooper - will stay with me for life. 2006's Rogue Trooper, an adaptation of the 2000AD comic, isn't the first game off anyone's lips, unless they're specifically talking about 2000AD games which were pretty good but no-one remembers them. ![]()
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