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Review – Army Men: Air Combat: The Elite Missions
One of my most significant memories of Army Men: Air Combat: The Elite Missions for Gamecube was a review by Cory D. Lewis, writing for IGN. In their review, they kept on comparing (oh no, how many times am I going to write this?) Army Men: Air Combat: The Elite Missions to an N64 game. This is both in the…
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Review – Army Men: World War: Final Front
I'm still reeling from the punishment inflicted by Land Sea Air. However, I still had faith in the World War sub-series of Army Men. Thankfully, Final Front isn't nearly as bad as LSA, but that bar was set pretty low. Weirdly, this isn't actually the final game in the series.
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Review – Army Men: Air Attack 2 (PS1)
Whenever I mention my interest in the Army Men series to anyone "normal" they often mention that they liked the helicopter one. But despite the anecdotal evidence that Air Attack is the favorite, I'm not sure I've ever met anyone who has played Air Attack 2. I wonder why.
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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 – Army Men: Sarge’s Heroes (PS1)
You might recall me mentioning that a lot of Army Men ports were completely different depending on what platform they were on? Sarge's Heroes on PS1 is a good example. It resembles the N64 and Dreamcast versions, but its levels and the way it plays are completely different. Not in a good way.
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Review – Battletanx: Global Assault
The original Battletanx on the N64 is an absolute gem. Any game that rewards your exploration with a tactical nuke is okay by me, and Battletanx had them in spades. It wasn’t a perfect game, by any means, but it’s one that is absolutely worth playing for its breezy gameplay and fun multiplayer. However, if there’s any reason not to…
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Review – Battletanx (N64)
It’s easy to make fun of 3DO for their extremely prevalent Army Men series, but that makes it easy to forget that the company was made up of some talented people. Mostly EA alumni who followed Tripp Hawkins to his new venture. Michael Mendheim was one such person. A veteran of the industry, he was responsible for creating the Mutant…
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Review – Army Men: Turf War
Turf War is the last of the three Army Men titles on Game Boy Advance. It's interesting, since it uses 3D models over 2D backdrops. Sort of like the Tony Hawk GBA games. Unfortunately, that's about the only thing interesting about it. It isn't as bad as it could be, though.
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Review – Army Men: Operation Green
Army Men: Operation Green has probably been the biggest surprise for me as I've played through the series. Coming from Pocket Studios and releasing on Game Boy Advance, everything points to it being pretty unspectacular. That much is true, but there are some surprising
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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.
