Arrowhead Game Studio launched at the beginning of the month Helldivers 2, a third-person shooter featuring soldiers of the Super-Earth facing gigantic insects using an explosive arsenal. A title that exploded the counters, with nearly 410,000 players simultaneously on Steamwithout forgetting PlayStation 5 players.
A surprise success for this sequel including the universe obviously recalls that ofStars, watch outa 1959 novel written by Robert Heinlein and best known through the film adaptation Starship Troopers (the title of the novel in original version) in 1997. A monument of action cinema directed by Paul Verhoeven (RoboCop, Total Recall, Basic Instinct) which denounced everything that the author of the basic novel glorified, very militaristic. Anti-fascist and anti-imperialist satire, Starship Troopers features Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Jake Busey and Neil Patrick Harris, young people wanting to become citizens, a social status much more appreciable than that of simple civilian. To do this, they must enlist in the army and participate in the war against the Arachnidshuge alien insects. A violent, satirical film denouncing the recruitment campaigns of the American army through false and exaggerated propaganda campaignsor everything that adds salt to the atmosphere of Helldiverse 2.
As some have noted Internet users, research regarding Starship Troopers have skyrocketed on the Weba popularity regained thanks to the critical and commercial success of Helldiverse 2. This has reached the ears of Johan PilestedtCEO ofArrowhead Game Studiowho asserts that ” it’s incredible ! ». It’s obvious that Starship Troopers inspired the studio to design the Helldiverse. If you don’t know the film, it is available on Blu-ray from €15.25 on Amazon, Cdiscount And there Fnac.
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