Army Men RTS
3DO teams up with Pandemic Studios for a new breed of Army Men game on the PS2.
The 3DO Company's Army Men series has been evolving since its debut on the PC in 1998. Console incarnations of the series have offered a variety of gameplay styles. While every attempt at something new hasn't always worked, the variations have at least kept things interesting. The latest evolution in the series is Army Men RTS, a real-time strategy game developed by Pandemic Studios, which is known for such games as Dark Reign 2 and Battlezone II. We put an alpha build of the game through its paces and found it to offer a decidedly different Army Men experience that actually works pretty well.
The game's story is a tongue-in-cheek interpretation of Apocalypse Now, featuring the faux war-movie tone of the Army Men games. Nicely done CG sequences and in-game cutscenes will tell the epic tale that has lead character Sarge heading out in search of a respected officer, Colonel Blitz, who's gone rogue. Instead of chasing the colonel into a dark jungle, you'll be assaulting a pleasant two-story house that's right out of a '50s sitcom, complete with a white picket fence. The game will follow your assault, which begins on the front lawn and goes through the house and up into the attic.
In Army Men RTS, you'll find four modes to choose from: boot camp, campaign, great battles, and special operations. Boot camp is a tutorial that covers the basics you'll need to get into the game, which are camera movement, building a base, and combat. Campaign is the game's main mission mode, which features 15 missions for you to go through to catch the renegade colonel. Great battles offers eight missions, which are unlocked by earning gold medals in the campaign mode. Special operations is a series of eight missions you'll unlock by earning gold medals in campaign. In addition to the gameplay modes, you'll find an intelligence files option that will let you examine all the various models used in the game, from soldiers to structures.
If you've played a real-time strategy game, then you'll know what to expect from Army Men RTS. Featuring a standard game layout and a solid amount of functionality, Army Men RTS is shaping up to offer some solid gameplay. The game is structured like a standard RTS; you'll be given mission objectives at the start of each level and then find yourself on the field of battle. To succeed, you'll have to manage your resources: plastic, gathered from objects such as Frisbees and water pistols strewn throughout the levels; and electricity, mined from batteries also strewn about the field of battle. As in any RTS, you'll be able to build structures, such as a headquarters, resource depot, barracks and garage, and units, including grunts and grenadiers, as the game progresses and your resources hold out. Exploring the map will lift the "fog of war" and let you see more of the area around you.
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