Starship Troopers: Terran Command

got this for 2 dollars on a key site and i still feel like im not getting my moneys worth somehow

Well for starters this wasn't the type of game I thought it was. This is described as being an RTS game but its really more like a real time tactical strategy game, more in the lines with commandos. For some that will be fine but I don't care for this kind of game myself, so I was disappointed by that. This means no base building, etc. There are areas where you can sorta build buildings but it doesn't work how an RTS game works and is very basic. This is essentially just the kind of game where you start a map with some unit groups and you move from point to point taking out objectives and enemies as you go, using only the soldiers you were given or can call it as you move around the map. So that's a little more boring than I like to have in my RTS games, I wish the description and break down of the game made that more clear than it does. However being that this is Starship troopers I wouldn't be too bummed to at least play a while and have some fun with it given the theme. Unfortunately it really doesn't grasp the feel of the movies very well for me. It's just a commandos game with a ST skin on everything. None of the funny awkward dialogue that really hits the same way, etc. But even with that in mind there were a ton of things that don't work well and kinda ruin it pretty quickly. Selected unit groups don't move well in formation which can lead to issues where entire groups don't have line of fire and can not attack unless you manually select them and separate them from the army elsewhere. This makes encounters on the move really weird because it feels like they are way more dumb than they should be lol. It's more odd by the fact that your move commands clearly have tactical formations in mind but each group just high tails it to their new destination with no consideration of their formation as they move. This would only get worse later as your armies get bigger, etc. Then there were also multiple glitches where units and groups are stuck, sometimes on thin air it seems, and can't figure out how to pathfind because of it. There was an area of the first mission where nothing would progress and it seemed like something glitched out and wasn't triggering until I realized there was one enemy unit left that was just barely out of sight and was just glitched in place and couldn't do anything but spin in circles. I was also locked into a stronghold area for that part and could not get to that enemy to kill it either. So the mission had to be done all over again. I know I barely played more than 30 min but to see so many glitches and having a mission glitch-locked right at the start definetely didn't make me want to play it any further.