Team Troopers

Genre: First-Person Shooter

Players: 1-6 Competitive / Team Competitive (Online)

Game Company Bad Behavior Profile Page: Benjamin Kistler

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Review:

Team Troopers is a multiplayer-focused First-Person Shooter released on Nintendo Switch in 2021. This is a game that seems to be aiming to be a budget version of something like Call of Duty and as for whether it achieves that goal… well, I do try to make it a point not to say anything negative in my opening paragraph.

Graphically, Team Troopers looks very bare-bones. Character models and especially environments aren’t rendered in much detail, and while this wouldn’t necessarily be horrible in and of itself, this game somehow still has some serious problems with some pretty heavy framerate drops and pop-in. Honestly, this is pretty embarrassing – if games like Overwatch and Doom Eternal can run on the Nintendo Switch with respectable framerates, surely this low-poly hunk of junk could manage the same? Apparently not. Oh, and for music and sound, don’t expect much – you get generic military music in game menus, and unimpressive gun sounds backed by dead silence during actual gameplay.

As for that gameplay, I can actually see some glimmer of potential in this game to at least be a mediocre copycat experience… but unfortunately, while this game gets a few elements of Call of Duty-style gameplay right, most of them the game fails at miserably. The walk speed here is incredibly slow, aiming down the sights causes your gun to block most of the screen including your target unless they’re right up next to you. There’s little nuance to the gameplay here, and there’s nothing unique or original about this game.

I haven’t even gotten to the worst part which is, surprisingly, the menus. The menus in this game are simply broken unless you’re using the touchscreen. Menu selections don’t highlight properly when you choose them, pressing a button on a selection that is properly highlighted often doesn’t work, the game uses an emulated mouse cursor instead of being worked into the gamepad interface… I am honestly shocked that this game was published in this state. I actually had to hold my tongue about complaints that there’s no variety to the weapons in the game because I don’t know if they’re behind some menu I don’t know existed because the menus in this game are so terrible.

Oh, for those wondering, while this game doesn’t support the use of gyroscopic motion controls, it does make use of touchscreen controls in the gameplay. But they’re absolutely awful, and will have you unloading your gun in a random direction like a maniac. And for the record, while this game does support online play, you probably won’t be surprised to hear that the online lobbies are completely empty.

It’s hard to imagine anyone bothering with Team Troopers when the Nintendo Switch has Warface, an imperfect but decent enough Call of Duty-style game that’s free-to-play. By comparison, Team Troopers aims as low as it possibly can while copying Call of Duty’s formula and still misses its mark abysmally. It looks bad, performs terribly, has simple gameplay, does nothing original, has bad controls, has an absolutely atrociously busted menu… if there’s any reason a person might want this game, I strain to think of it. Steer clear of it.

tl;dr – Team Troopers is a Call-of-Duty-style multiplayer-focused First-Person Shooter that’s extremely unambitious in what it’s trying to do and yet still fails even that much. Bad controls, bad graphics, zero originality, and one of the worst menu systems I’ve ever seen in a game. Even on Nintendo Switch, you have plenty of better options than this.

Grade: D-

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This game has been nominated for one or more of eShopperReviews 2021 Game Awards:

Runner-Up: The “Why is this taking so much space on my memory card!?” Award

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