Though Star Wars has always played it fast and loose with its games' place in canon, such as The Force Unleashed and Starkiller's departure from canon, Death Troopers occupies a unique position that is not only ideal for a game adaptation but also for the overall Star Wars lore.

For example, while the novel shows the Purge's crew initially dying, the game might skip this to throw the player right into the action. While the novel has interesting characters and subplots worth exploring, the game itself might need to take some creative liberties to successfully adapt it. Sharing the sci-fi design principles as well as the near-human monsters, Death Troopers could immediately learn from the lessons these games provide to inform its story structure and character development. Ultimately it would deliver a very distinctive Star Wars experience beyond the usual RPGs, action-adventures, and FPS games.ĭeath Troopers could even look to Dead Space or the upcoming The Callisto Protocolfor a framework of how the game might look, feel, and tell its story. Perhaps taking Isolation's first-person perspective and mechanics while paralleling its dedication to replicating the retro visuals of the original films, Death Troopers could task players with the simple objective of escaping the Purge alive, avoiding or incapacitating undead stormtroopers while saving other survivors where possible. Between the comparisons to Resident Evil, Dead Space, or even the successful and critically acclaimed Alien: Isolation, it's not difficult to envision how a Death Troopers game could take shape.

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