Players hire accomplices to help carry out their crimes and must traverse the city in taxis to gather tools, obtain a getaway car, and unload the loot, among other tasks.
Three phases of gameplay include In the City, a segment allowing players to familiarize themselves with city surroundings and to scout out jobs Record Plan, the heist planning phase and Start Plan, which puts the burglary into motion. Features include more than 90 characters (most for hire), 30 vehicles, a city with 20 major locations, and a host of smaller establishments to rob. Players control caricaturized 3D characters as they climb the underworld ladder, gaining the notoriety that leads to bigger heists and attracts able and talented allies. All in all, even die-hard fans of the movie will want to indulge their planet-pillaging impulses elsewhere.The Sting! combines aspects of role-playing and strategy with a seedy theme of gangland connections and high-stakes burglary.
The graphics and sound are impressive for the year 2000, when Terran Ascendancy came out, but the demo doesn't have many options-no multiplayer capability, no skirmish mode, just a single-player scenario. However, this causes as many problems as it solves, since your soldiers can shoot farther than you can see, and you often can't issue attack orders in time. You can recenter the view on your squad by pressing the space bar, or lock on them by pressing Num Lock. Unlike in most real-time strategy games, the landscape in Terran Ascendancy doesn't scroll when you move the cursor to the edge of the screen, which makes it extremely difficult to follow your troops. Unfortunately, the horrible interface ensures you'll spend more time struggling with the controls than squashing space bugs. Based on Paul Verhoeven's film adaptation of Robert Heinlein's classic sci-fi novel Starship Troopers, Starship Troopers: Terran Ascendancy makes you commander of a squad of Space Marines tasked with annihilating the insect-like inhabitants of a faraway planet.
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