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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.