Combine that with a grenade toss for added shits and giggles. Gunnar can be placed as a turret for example, as you sneak around the other side of a bunch of enemies, and you can catch a squad in a crossfire. The gameplay is still great fun, with fast-paced shooting at the forefront of everything, but there can be some tactics involved if you fancy it. So technically, Rogue Trooper is a squad cover shooter, just without a physical squad. But in the opening section, depicting said massacre, you’ll rescue the chips from three of your fellow soldiers these come in the form of Gunnar, who helps you with aiming and can become a sentient turret when needed Bagman, who uses salvaged scrap to create ammo and upgrades for Rogue’s weapons and Helm, who can hack various things in order to proceed. This is how Rogue Trooper offers a unique take on the squad shooter genre.Īfter the Quartz Zone Massacre, during which almost all the GIs were slaughtered, Rogue is thought to be the only surviving member of the GI race. Unlike those clones however, these blue fellows’ personalities and skills are downloaded to a chip in their skull upon death, and these chips can be implanted in various items. Rogue is only one of many almost identical soldiers, called Genetic Infantrymen (GIs, for short) much like the clones from Star Wars, if they had blue skin. He is an engineered life form, created by the Southers to withstand the toxic atmosphere of Nu Earth, in order to battle the nefarious Norts. I’m getting ahead of myself though, aren’t I? You probably want to know who the hell Rogue is, aside from being a 2000 AD character from the Eighties. Now, the gameplay is still good, but many, many games have updated the formula and Rogue Trooper’s gameplay is a bit behind the curve nowadays.

Don’t get me wrong, Tick Tock has done a great job in recreating that game I loved eleven years ago, updating the visuals and turning Rogue into a highly detailed soldier but someone forgot to update the gameplay. Maybe that’s why the disappointment hit me so hard, when I started playing this Redux version. When Rebellion announced the remake of Rogue Trooper, a game I championed for quite some time back in the late 2000s and the early 2010s, I was understandably excited.

Thing is, it all went a bit quiet after that. Although it started in 2003 with Judge Dredd: Dredd vs Death, it wasn’t until 2006’s Rogue Trooper that Rebellion had created its best 2000 AD game. When Rebellion bought the old comics giant, it was only a matter of time before it produced games based on its best franchises. But hey, Judge Dredd isn’t the only thing that came from 2000 AD’s best days, there was also Rogue Trooper. You don’t really hear much of 2000 AD Comics anymore, do you? Although it continues to be a good place for British talent in the comic book industry, it hasn’t really been in the mainstream for a couple of decades.

Rogue trooper redux