I mean, I'd love to see a game that lets you play the book version, but a part of me also knows it wouldn't be very fun if done 1:1, since, well, having a shoulder-mounted Davy Crockett might sound cool at first, but after the first few times it would probably get rather dull. Unless it's balanced out, like you having to earn the nukes ala killstreak, them being reserved for special targets, or require setup like Mortars in Battlefield (since you aren't supposed to eyeball the firing process but take time and actually aim the damn thing), I wouldn't really see how you could make it work. You also would never really see your allies after you drop, since Mobile Infantry troopers are deployed really far apart from one another and move around alot, only linking up for post-mission evac.
And a strategy game would be even more difficult, since by then you'd have to render it down to grid squares on a map, rather than a tactical map where you have individually modeled soldiers.
The only way I could see a Starship Troopers video game, that is based on the novels, work, would be to go the Boomer Shooter route, where it's just you, your weapons, and a metric fuckload of enemies, with the nuke launcher being a power up or very limited superweapon ala BFG, and the actions of your squadmates being just indirectly shown, rather than them appearing onscreen, with their aid being called in from afar ala airstrike or artillery support, hammering home that, while you are alone, you are not alone, and got people around you fighting by your side, even if they are literal miles away.
