The big problem lies in how limited your resources are in terms of the number of men and machines you can command, as well as in the unpleasant necessity of forcing Sarge to do pretty much everything himself.Īrmy Men attempts to be both a good single-player game and a good squad-level strategy game, but the latter of these falls flat when you realize that you really only control one guy and that your objectives in every mission are really about how Sarge fares and not about whether your "team" accomplishes its mission. And, if you have them available, you can call in backup troops, recon flights, and airstrikes. Your battlefield controls allow you to pick up items (new weapons, crates with goodies inside, etc.) as well as hop in pretty much any vehicle you come across. aiming at enemies - far more difficult than they need to be. You view Sarge from an isometric perspective (nearly top-down, but with enough of an angle that you get some perspective and 3D-ness to the game) that makes certain tasks in this game - i.e. Why, we don’t know … just because they’re tan, I guess. Your goals range from mission to mission, but they inevitably involve eradicating the evil Tan army. You play the main "character," Sarge, an animated version of the good old plastic rifleman. In fact, it seems to have been a designed-by-committee attempt to be all things to all gamers without ever really focusing on how to do one thing really well. It’s far closer to Postal (some of the sound effects actually sound pretty familiar) than to a true strategy game. around and call in air strikes, but don’t get the idea that this is going to be an "in the field" version of Command and Conquer. There is some strategy involved in that you can (limitedly) command other platoons - well, okay, other groups of three - and you can drive tanks, jeeps, etc. It is real-time, but it’s more of a one-man action game ala the Crusader: No Remorse or Postal games. GameplayĪrmy Men is a true mix of several types of game. In its defense, there is a good deal of humor to the idea of using the plastic guys for fighting men and their demises are often pretty funny (especially if you did this sort of thing as a kid). Worst of all, in the final analysis Army Men just isn’t as much fun as it was to pick off those plastic dime store soldiers with your BB gun or melt ‘em down with a well-timed kitchen match air-to-air missile. Except that Army Men isn’t exactly a real-time strategy game, nor is it pure action, and this failure to decide really hampers what might have been a great game.
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