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Review – Smashing Drive (Console)
I can't stop thinking about Smashing Drive. It's an artifact from another dimension, an alternate reality where the idea of Crazy Taxi existed but was never executed. It's hard to articulate how I feel about this game because I can't decide whether its faults are faults or if they're pockets of flavour.
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Review – Army Men: Sarge’s Heroes 2 (PS1)
I've established this before, but ports of Army Men games were often completely distinct from one another. Sarge's Heroes 2 on PS1 is a pretty stark example of this. It follows the general framework of the other versions, but for some reason, this one got injected with LSD. Or however people use that drug.
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Review – Sin & Punishment
Every once and a while, you may hear me gush about Japanese developer Treasure, creators of such treats as Gunstar Heroes and Ikaruga. None of their games crack the loose inventory of my favourite games, but every time I play one, I’m always stricken by the sheer imagination that’s always on display. They’re weird, but not necessarily in a quirky…
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Review – Army Men: Air Combat (GBC)
A lot of the time, when an Army Men title got ported to another platform, it would be remade from the ground up and become a distinct game. However, for some reason, most of the games that landed on Game Boy Color were recognizable ports, including Army Men: Air Combat.
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Review – Army Men: World War: Land Sea Air
Years after writing this review, I had convinced myself that I accidentally played Land Sea Air on hard mode and wasn't able to change it back. So, I tried it again, making sure it was on Medium. Nope, this game really is so unfair that it's painful to play.
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Review – Army Men 2 (GBC)
Digital Eclipse followed up their Game Boy Color sort-of port of the first Army Men with a sort-of port of Army Men 2. Only this time, it's even more distinctly its own game. It doesn't so much try to replicate the PC title, but rather fit its themes on GBC.
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Review – Army Men (GBC)
The tendrils of the Army Men series sprawled their way to the Game Boy, starting with a port of the original on the Color. Well, "port" might be being a bit generous, but Digital Eclipse did a decent job at moving it over to less powerful hardware.
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Review – Army Men: World War (PS1)
Yeah, Army Men: World War. All those other times? The world wasn't at war. This time, it's the whole world. Okay, the nomentclature is actually referring to the fact that it mixes modern Army Men with WWII-like battlefields. This may surprise you, but the result has its merits.
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Review – Army Men: Sarge’s Heroes (Dreamcast)
Don't get it twisted, there were some good games in the Army Men series. There was a single release on Dreamcast, and that was Sarge's Heroes. It's largely an upgraded version of the N64 version but, notably, it fixes a number of the flaws found in that title.
