Booster Trooper

Booster Trooper is a game with 20-30 mins of content, and about 200 hours of "achievements" if you don't use some kind of trick to speed that up. Under normal circumstances, I'd say the game was average and tolerable - because that's what it's actual gameplay is, average. Tolerable. Decent. It doesn't do anything groundbreaking, or anything terrible. It functions. That's the nicest thing I can say about it. What bothers me most, what pisses me off, is the level of grind required for the asinine achievements this game has: AKA, the only reason anyone would put more than maybe an hour into this shallow game

The numbers are obscene. Without downloading the special CTF map, kill achievements will take hours. Win achievements are even worse, the most time-consuming one requring *ten thousand* wins. IN my experience, without speeding up, the fastest win I had was about 45 seconds, and that's with about 30 seconds of unskippable waiting time. That's 450,000 seconds, or if you prefer, 7500 minutes. That's 125 *hours* for *one* achievment that, it's important to note, should be obtained *before* the achievements relating to getting 1000 wins in each of the five game modes, because if you do it out of order, it will bug out. Not to mention, the actual achievement says 1000 instead of 10,000. The devs have known about this and refused to make changes, and it's now over a decade later. The level of laziness, callousness and general incompetence that leads someone to make such a decision is great enough that I *refuse* to give this game any sort of praise.

Nobody plays this game. Nobody would want to play this game. There's no reason for you, as a potential buyer, to ever purchase this product. The achievements will waste your time, to such a degree, that I would not blame anyone for cheating, or speeding the game up, or something similar. There's nothing here worth any amount of money - If I had purchased this for even a single penny, I would be petitioning for a refund. Do not waste your time with this, not now, not later, not ever. Even spending a single minute of time on this drek is enough to feel like you've been stolen from, because you have.

Save your money and your time. Keep away.

Booster Trooper


Pros-

#1. Cheap

Only $2 full price


#2.Multiplayer with friends

Allegedly this still works.


#3.The graphics are ok for how old/cheap it is




Cons -

#1.Multiplayer is dead unless they on your friends list

#2.Some weapons are not fun/good to use

#3.You probably will get bored after 20 mins max playing bots

#4.The aiming in the game is harder and some might hate this





The Bottom Line -


It is like a cheap version of Super Smash Bros/Unreal Tournament deathmatch style.It is a cool game for what it offers but buy the 4 pack and try it with friends.As a single player game there might be 5 out of 100 people that would really like it as is.I like it but after 20 mins I would rather play something else but I do not care enough to buy the 4 pack to try with others.


Thumbs up though.

Booster Trooper seems quite obviously built to be a 2D, side-scrolling Unreal Tournament. That's a good thing. The game was very much fun when it first came out, but just seemed to be one of those games with a multiplayer community that died quite rapidly. I'm not sure why. You can still play the game in single-player, and enjoy it, but the multiplayer was so much more entertaining. It's a shame that the game died.

The good news is that the game is often on sale for less than $1, with a four pack available for $3. Which means you can buy a four pack for you and your friends to mess around with once per year, when you want to just relax and talk trash to one another in a simple game without any real buy-in to enjoy.

Note: Because the multiplayer is effectively dead (and it seems the official servers were shutdown years ago), you're going to be self-hosting the multiplayer, having a friend do it, or playing it in single-player. For that reason alone I'm dropping the rating down from a C- to a D-.

Rating: D-

Honestly, grab a four pack for $3 and play with your friends some evening. At that price it's worth the laughs.

Fun game. It's kinda like a side-scrolling Unreal Tournament. 3/5

Platformer shooters are a tough sell for me. This title is well made, but I couldn't get into the gameplay much. Still, it's only a few bucks. Give it a shot if you're curious.

Do me a favor, do it, do it.

The game is simply awesome. Once you click the play button, you will be shown a square dialogue box saying ERROR : Can't create the directory. So, the grey coloured error dialogue box is kinda satisfying and relaxing for something you actually payed for. Absolutely, one of the best game I ever played. Highly recommend it.

Booster Trooper is a 2d shooter platform.

I will compare this game to Crash Comando from the PSN network because It whas my first game in this genre.
And I had a really good time with this game offline and online with my friends.
These a very unique games if you ask me because you did not see them very often on consoles as on PC so far I can remember.
It's a totally new way to play arena shooter if you ask me.
Controlers are really to get used to becuase of the 2d platform gameplay.

This game support deatchmatch as capture the flag options.
It's really fun to play online with friends if you like or just local single player with bots.
There is a jump option only you will use your jetpack most of the time only you have a limited boost so this is very tricky sometimes,

You have many weapons in this game like, Shotgun, Machine Gun, Mini Gun, Rocker Laucher and Sniper Rifle to choose as your starting weapons.
And in-game you can vind bonus weapons for extra firepower for short amount of time.
These are the granade and the plasma gun.

There are many stages to explore and they look very good.
If I compare these stages to crash comando's that is you only have 1 big stage.
Crash commando's has the option to hav 2 rooms in every level.
So this gives more space and sometimes less spamm killing in stages.
Still it's not a really big thing only I wanted to mension this.

Games has a good gameplay with some really nice beating soundtracks.
It's shame there are not many service to play ... still there are some services online.
I purchased this game for 79 cent... and now I know the 4 pack is also for 2,50 ... next time I will buy the 4 pack.
It's a super cool game to play alone or with your friends online.

It's a fun and good game and for the money.... this is a bargain.
I give it a 7/10 score.

Holy daaaayum. Booster Trooper. This game would be hella fun if there was an online community. The sixteen hours I have put into this has purely been single player.

It may not look much, but the side scrolling action arena that is on offer here is bloody fun. Fast paced, action packed style gameplay with a little bit of platforming involved. There is plenty of different weapons...but you are going to want to go with the mini-gun, my god, this weapon is siiiiiiiiick. I found myself getting kill streak after kill streak with this thing. The regular rifle is good, but jeez, I was actually shouting and jumping in my seat with enjoyment while playing.

Other reviews seem to slate Booster Trooper, but I reckon if you get a few of your friends playing it, you will have a blast.

I bought Booster Trooper at launch since it seemed like it could be a fun game. At the time, there were not many platform shooters, Apparently, I was not the only one thinking it could be a good game, because quite some people bought the game. I can tell since my rare achievements list only contains Booster Trooper achievements and I'm quite sure it will take a long time (forever) to get different achievements from other games.
Why, you say? Simply, because apparently most of the players did get a few achievements, but never returned to the game. I used to love the rare achievements on my profile page but obviously, it's not that fun for me anymore.

Booster Trooper is an online platform shooter. Sadly, there's no one playing the game anymore so you've got the option to play vs bots.
Gameplay is all pretty basic but instead of jumping you use a jetpack to get higher up the platforms. There are multiple weapons like; minigun, sniper rifle, pistol.... you get the picture. There are some special weapons and powerups to pick up.

Graphically, the game looks pretty awful, even at launch. It did not bother me much personally but it simply does not look good.

Overall Booster Trooper is an OK game, which can only be recommend buying it together with some buddies, weren't it for the fact the price tag of the game is 5 bucks (4 pack: 15,-) which is way too much. Also, there are better games of the same genre like The Showdown Effect.

The future truly is an unknowable and enigmatic entity. This turned out to not be 'future of multiplayer platform shooters'. Heck not even for a fluttering tiny spec of an instant if we go buy the peak number of players ever which comes in at a couple of baker's dozens, two to be exact.

RIP, oh optimistic dreamers of the viability of 2D online shooters.

This is at its base a pretty fun game - it plays pretty smoothly, especially once you get the knack of jump boosting, the weapons give you a good range of tactical/playstyle preference options, while not perfectly balanced they are all viable options with benefits and weaknesses. The game modes cover all the basics - Capture the Flag, base defense, team death match, free for all, but there is nothing really innovative here.

The arenas are graphically fairly diverse, but probably most of them are a bit too similar tactically, while others are a bad idea if you plan on having bots due to the limited routes and the poor AI pathing - if set to low levels you should be able beat up on the AI with its slow reactions and poor aim, if set hard the bots are pretty challenging as long as they don't get stuck on scenery, or failing to find a route to the target when playing CTF or base defense.

Generally I wouldn't buy this to play against the AI, and decent random online games are rare nowadays, but if a group of friends wanted a fun lightweight action game to play against each other regularly, this would be a decent option.

Booster Trooper is in the vein of games likes SpeedRunners or The Showdown Effect in that it's a side-scrolling, multiplayer versus game. But where some games have a fun gimmick like the race of SpeedRunners or have a more finely tuned combat system and shiny graphics like The Showdown Effect, Booster Trooper has neither of those things.

It's an FPS in side-scrolling form, which admittedly can be a lot of fun. However the graphics are good but not great, and the gameplay is smooth but unremarkable. It's not a poorly made game just nothing really stands out about it. Couple that with virtually no one playing it anymore, and you can see why it really isn't worth adding to your game library.

Bought this for a Funtime weekend with Friends as a 4-pack. Totaly waste of Money, to set up a dedicated server for this game alone is a Hard piece of work. I dont know much about those stuff and the "Help.pdf" didnt helped me at all.

Even besides the dead Multiplayer, this game offers not much. Gun balancing isnt there. Only good is the controls, they work direct and accurate.

Still a waste of 3,74€.

8/10. This game is pretty much awesome. BUT you need to have friends to play with. AND . . . and this is a big AND . . . you need to get some sort of VPN app like Evolve (it's free) to be able to play over the internet. Otherwise, you're likely to experience issues connecting to someone hosting the game.

When I first got this game, I only played it for like 10 mins against bots then spent like an hour trying to figure out how to get a multiplayer game going with my friends. We eventually gave up and the game sat untouched for a year. Then we discovered Evolve and tried Booster Trooper with it. And it finally WORKED! It was like finding a key to a golden chest and inside was this awesome multiplayer game!

This game is tedious and the community is non-existent. A good majority of the achievement descriptions are wrong as well. I feel like the people who designed the achievements in this game didn't really think anything through.

Tedious Trooper.
1/5
I will never play this game again.

The game Booster Trooper is a 2D indie shooter game.
Price: 4,99 € / Summersale: 0,99 € (till 30th June 2014)

I just recommend this game because it’s still pretty funny to play in single player mode.
My personal experience (warning to my friends ♥) about the multiplayer is below!

Graphic: Retro 7/10
Sound: 9/10
Controls: 10/10

+ And I want to add it is pretty funny how the enemies scream when they die +
Achievements: 260 achievements which spam you lol
I mean I got 52 achievements just from one hour testing the game automatically.

My experiences with MULTIPLAYER:
A friend of me and I wannted to play Booster Trooper together. So we started the game and WANTED to look for a server. But there have been no servers listed. The status “Refreshing server list” never ended. Sadly.
So I clicked “Host Match” and created a game with players and bots but my friend couldn’t join me. Good thing we had a Skype-Call and talked together about it during my fight with just bots.
I left the game and told him to open a game but I also couldn’t join him. We found some discussions about this problem. The Servers are down since years and there is no support anymore. It's so annoying.... WHEN THERE IS SAID IN THE STEAM SHOP THE GAME IS MULTIPLAYER AND COOP THERE SHOULD BE ANY SERVERS! -.- And it’s not the only game with that problem.

Another criticism from me:
The bots seem to be kinda stupid. lol Or at least in my games they are sometimes hanging at a box and aren’t able to jump. Or they are confused running on one place. X’D Also I played “Capture the flag” and I think the bot enemy wasn’t even able to get the flag or the bot doesn’t wanted to get it… I don’t know… it just ended 24:0 for me. And yeah it’s cool to win but not if you have the feeling the enemy is playing with his ass on the keyboard. o:
Add: If you play "Capture the flag" against more bots (e.g. 11) it works. Seems like they are just 1vs 1 stupid. :c

Also the "Pause" button seems not to work.

Anyways if you want to have a bit fun alone or just to collect achievements – here you have a cheap game. Or maybe you have someone who plays the game with you in local via home network.

Local Multiplayertip:
1.The two most popular home network types are wireless and Ethernet networks. My friend and me used a wireless network. So your friend needs: the name of your Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) and the WLAN password.
2. When both of you are connected to the same WLAN you start the game.
3. You click: „Multiplayer“ and „Host Match“ with the settings you like.
4. ATTENTION:
The number of players seems to be bugged in this game, because if you choose 12 players and 10 bots (what would be logically for playing with one friend) theres shown -6 free slots for your friend and he won’t be able to join ya. So I noticed from trying it’s better to choose 12 players with 4-5 bots when I play with one friend.
5. When you made your settings you start the match.
6. Your friend clicks: „Join match“ and now he will be able to see your game with a free slot. He just clicks on your game and will connect.

Really entertaining multiplayer sidescrolling gun blasting mayhem! Except that there is no one playing it. If you can get your friends to play it with you, it's a blast. Does have a bot support too, but beating bots gets really boring, really quick.

You choose a main weapon, secondary weapon and a grenade you start with. Then you rampage across the map, blasting your guns, throwing grenades, collecting power-ups and defeating the lower beings. The screenshots pretty much tell the idea. Different maps and different guns call for different play styles. Use of jumps and the limited time of jetpacks can make you a very hard to hit target and a fast predator, or you stand your ground and give all you've got with your minigun that doesn't work in the air.

Booster Trooper is an alright arcade style shooter. It has bot support and without it it wouldn't be a game at all because multiplayer is dead. It has several game modes and maps plus a lot of achievements to earn but there's really not much to offer apart from that. After trying everything out (which wouldnt take more than a hour) you will most likely put it on the shelf and never play it again. I recommend avoiding this game unless you are an achievement whore.

Great game, simple and satisfying. The only real problem is that there's no one playing it, but hey... get a four pack at this price, throw in a few bots and you and your mates can have a blast.

Good fun!

There's no lobby and looks like their forum is down too. Game is dead, its pretty much free but still not worth getting. Very limited game, it's bad when even a game as old as Soldat dominates you in everyway.

To me, Booster Trooper is a 3D -- more polished version of Soldat. The characters manuver the same way, and the maps are built in the same way. This is a good thing though, because I loved Soldat. It's deffinitely a good game to pick up for some intense shooter action, more so if you're into side scrolling multiplayer games (Terraria anyone?).

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