Army Men (video game)

Army Men is a real-time tactics video game developed and published by The 3DO Company for Microsoft Windows and Game Boy Color.

Army Men
Windows cover art
Developer(s)The 3DO Company
Publisher(s)The 3DO Company
Producer(s)Nicholas Earl
Designer(s)Keith Bullen
Programmer(s)Nicky Robinson
Artist(s)Keith Bullen
Walter Ianneo
SeriesArmy Men
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows, Game Boy Color
ReleaseMicrosoft Windows
Game Boy Color
Genre(s)Real-time tactics
Mode(s)Single-player

Plot

At the beginning of this game Sarge is tasked with a simple recon mission on the front line - locate some documents - that takes place in 3 regions: Desert, Alpine and Bayou. At the end of this game, Sarge finds a strange portal that leads to the next dimension - the Real World - and the next game. Regarded as a classic by fans, this is one of the few games to actually display Sarge and his squad as merely pawns in a bigger battle. Two features that make this game almost unique in the series are its storytelling (Black-White spoofs of old-time, World War II-style newsreels) and the fact that it often depicts a frontline or other fighting that doesn't involve the main characters.

Development

Army Men was originally in development and slated for release on the Panasonic M2, but it never happened due to the system's cancellation.[3][4]

Reception

Next Generation reviewed the PC version of the game, rating it three stars out of five, and stated that "it's a solid, fun example of the genre, and anyone looking for a new strategy game with a very nice graphic twist should seriously consider this."[7]

Aggregating review website GameRankings gave the Game Boy Color version 74.67% based on 6 reviews[6] and the Microsoft Windows version 60.91% based on 17 reviews.[5]

References
  1. "News for April 30, 1998". Online Gaming Review. April 30, 1998. Archived from the original on December 4, 2000. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
    "April 30, 1998: "3DO announced that two of their titles should be hitting store shelves...Army Men, their action, strategy game featuring the little plastic guys..."
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20010417134948/http://www.3do.com/investors/pr_022500.html
  3. "News - E3 '96: 3DO? - M2 Dream List". 3DO Magazine. No. 12. Paragon Publishing. July 1996. p. 4.
  4. "Preview - Coming Soon - M2". 3DO Magazine. No. 12. Paragon Publishing. July 1996. p. 34.
  5. "Army Men for PC". GameRankings. Retrieved August 9, 2018.
  6. "Army Men for Game Boy Color". GameRankings. Retrieved August 9, 2018.
  7. "Finals". Next Generation. No. 44. Imagine Media. August 1998. p. 98.
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