Great game but only for a little while
The first of these two heels is the graphics. True to form the graphics make you really feel like you're controlling toys by making the toys bright and plain, and the environment bright and very plainly textured. This is great at first, if a tiny bit disorientating, as a toy warfare game finally exists that makes you remember your childhood via its bright and almost surreal graphics. However eventually these graphics end up hurting your eyes and start to seem a little too plain.
The other of the two is the variety. In the game you can control all manner of vehicles including helicopters, helicarriers, planes, racing cars, taxis, battle cars, transport trucks, space ships and bulldozers. At first this is brilliant for two main reasons. First of all the game never gets boring as you have such a huge variety of vehicles meaning no two missions are the same. Secondly if you're struggling to complete a mission then you can go off and complete ones that make you use vehicles you're better with. However as the game progresses you'll find that you struggle a lot to do some of the harder missions due to the lack of focus on any one vehicle that is required to build skill in usage of that vehicle. This results in the game getting boring as you find yourself unable to do many of the missions without hours of practice.
The controls are a major hindrance to this game. In the earlier levels, as well as in multiplayer, the controls won't seem to be too much of a problem. However in the later missions you will find the controls too loose to lower your mission completion time. The aiming mechanism for flying vehicles is also quaint-essentially broken, and you will find yourself struggling to hit enemies whilst moving because of this.
The design is, although corny, very good. What do your planes shoot? Pencils and pen lids. What are bases made of? Lego and books. It feels like everything has been set up by a child, and it works.
The music in this game is repetitive, quiet and boring. The sound effects don't help as they will quickly get on your nerves.
This review has probably sounded very negative so far, but please don't pass up on the game because of that. The thing is, this game may fail to be an experience worth playing in its entirety, but it succeeds at being a game worth playing for the first 5 hours or so: playing it so that you can reminisce about childhood.
Gameplay:Singleplayer = 6/10
Gameplay:Multiplayer = 8/10
Graphics = 7/10
Sound = 2/10
Design = 9/10
Control = 4/10
Final Score = 7/10