The lead actor in Starship Troopers is apparently a fan of the many homages in Helldivers 2, and would be open to playing General Brasch.
Helldivers 2 – it looks like Johnny Rico is angling for a new job Live service game Helldivers 2 is the biggest surprise hit of the year so far, becoming one of the best-selling games for Sony ever, after just two months. However, the setting and tone of the game owns an enormous debt to 1997 movie Starship Troopers, with the bug-like aliens and the depiction of a fascist Earth military being all but identical to Paul Verhoeven’s satirical classic.
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Casper Van Dien geeks out over Helldivers 2's references and says 'it is such a tribute to Starship Troopers it's really quite wonderful'Rich is a games journalist with 15 years' experience, beginning his career on Edge magazine before working for a wide range of outlets, including Ars Technica, Eurogamer, GamesRadar+, Gamespot, the Guardian, IGN, the New Statesman, Polygon, and Vice. He was the editor of Kotaku UK, the UK arm of Kotaku, for three years before joining PC Gamer.
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