Roughnecks - The Starship Troopers Chronicles - The Complete Campaigns

Love the series but just because it leaves you hanging at the end of this supposedly COMPLETE campaign series it gets 1 star, i would give it zero stars if permitted. The title of this set is VERY MISLEADING, it is not complete & leaves you hanging at the end, VERY DISAPPOINTING!! This should fall under the category of false advertisement. I don't recommend this series because it is not complete as it says. Schroeder (DJ WACK "O") (Publisher/Owner) of Cult Movies Magazine.

I saw one show early one morning befor work and really enjoyed the story. I then saw the series on sail and searched for the whole set. The Complete Campaigns is a great value. If you liked the Starship Troopers then this is a must have.

This is by far my favorite TV science fiction series. I enjoy Star Trek, Babylon 5, Stargate SG1 & Atlantis, and Space: Above and Beyond(which is similar to Roughnecks). I was completely unaware of Roughnecks until I discovered it at [...]., and I bought it based on the reviews at Amazon. I was not disappointed. I have read "Starship Troopers" about five times, and although this is not an exact copy of the novel, I loved it. I'm certain the author, Mr. Heinlein, would be pleased with this interpretation of his classic novel. The stories are exciting and unpredictable. The computer graphics are stunning, almost 3D. A few scenes in the early episodes contain jerky movement, but this is the exception and not the rule. Later episodes are so fluid that you forget it's animated. And the acting is excellent. The series has been combined into campaigns of five episodes each which play like a movie. The bonus episodes contain a lot of flashbacks to previous episodes and contain only minimal new material.

I don't recommend this series for children under the age of 10. It would have given me nightmares at that age.

My only disappointment with Roughnecks is that there isn't any more! The show was cancelled after a spine tingling cliff hanger. In frustration, I had to outline my own set of five concluding episodes. If only we could convince Paul Verhoeven to produce a concluding set of episodes for DVD release! Online petition anyone? Roughnecks, HO!

The movie Starship Troopers upon which Roughnecks is based was not even close to the book and that was a great disappointment. However, even if I forgive the plot and character changes the movie fell flat because it did not show the "jump suits". The animated version, Roughnecks, reviewed here takes a much better stab at the spirit of the book while building on the disaster that was the movie. The special effects and settings are significantly more interesting along with the hardware. So, I discovered that I like the animated version of Starship Troopers (aka Roughnecks - The Starship Troopers Chronicles - The Complete Campaigns ) better albeit not by much given the slightly better story line. To be fair, the Roughneck show was built with commercials in mind and separate episodes in each "campaign" (season) advancing the story line. The Complete Campaigns does a good job of welding it all together without the annoyance of commercial intrusion. Each of the Campaigns is a really long movie. You can't watch it in a single sitting.

Out dated CGI, childish story telling, but one of the best interpretations of the original 60's book.