Army Men (1998) Retrospective Review

My favorite part was when Trip said "It's crunchin' time" and then 3DO employees worked like a mule to produce 15 games in a 4 year span of time.

Need some more Army Men retrospectives. Played so many of these games as a kid.

Criminally underrated and under viewed video. It's made me want to source a copy and relive the glory days lol.

Thank you for doing this retrospective, it's nice to see the series still getting some love after all these years. By the way, I recently came upon something interesting in Toys in Space that I think you should know. A total of five multiplayer maps appear to be missing, at least from the GOG version. These maps are called "Day on the Green", "Killer Crossing", "Mudpit Massacre", "Park Panic", and "X Town Rivalry". These maps were probably released first as free dlc back in the day, before being packed right on the CD in the Army Men Value Pack version of Toys in Space. The maps can be added back into the GOG version by copying the five map previews in the bitmaps folder, the mpplayroom and mpsideyard folders under data, and finally copying and overwriting the mpmaps.txt, so the new maps are added to the game's map list. This might warrant a deeper look into the Army Men value packs in the future to see if there's any other extra content that got overlooked for the current digital releases.

This is a certified hood classic

Would love this kind of review on each of the main line games! Great video!

Easily the best army men focused video on YouTube, hope to see more of these

Absolutely loved this video! There really isn't enough videos about the older army men games out there. Your commentary was thoroughly entertaining and I'm hoping you continue to review the sequel games (particularly excited for Army Men II). Thanks for the upload and I look forward to more!

My man you are so good at story telling. I hope you will make more army men reviews. This video is stright fire. You my good man got a new sub

I’d love to see more army men! This was excellently done.

I was smiling half the way through and all the way to the end because. I noticed how much love and passion ( also this review cracking me up at certain parts) you have for this game and the series. You definitely sound like a person who enjoyed making this and I can feel enthusiam you have for this. Props to you for making this video now I'm interested!

This series is a huge childhood influence for me. I never played the early games, but this video is crazy good at covering content, history, and info!

You can still see comments from ex-3DO developers of the various Army Men games in the Steam, GOG and YouTube comments, and it's depressing. Good ideas, not much support or development time, and weird annualization of game releases by 3DO, just look at Might and Magic at that time. Both franchises really suffered from shovelware bloat.

Fantastic video! It would be amazing if you did a full review like this on the 3D port as you debated in a few comments, even though the video will probably focus more on the company itself rather than the game since it is of course a port and not a fully different game. It will always have a special place in my heart as it was my first video game and honestly might be my earliest memory growing up. A shame the series ended in a schizo moment, and I’ll always hope the IP will be brought back like Battlefront (albeit with a better outcome). Keep up the great work!

Honestly, I would love an HD remaster of this game, and it's Sequels

I love these kinds of videos, the effort and research showcases how much the person loves the game they are talking about even if its not a game thats incredibly revolutionary or as well known, but the important part is you can see how much a person loves it. Honestly even tho i love the army men games and i havent really gotten around to playing these particular ones, i just love it, i was actually really happy when i heard that the source code is out there available for people to dabble with. I hope you get around to doing the rest of the games as you seem to have a good knack for this editing wise. If you want to push the jokes even further potentially theres lots of army men like models available for SFM and Gmod For good or bad i never understood why the games never got more people talking about it due to how prominent they were, either as bad games or for the good ones. The last part of the video where you talk about how they just make Multiplayer games but never attempt something with a single player aspiration just drives me crazy. In any case thanks for the highly informative video and like said before i hope you tackle the rest of the franchise as this video is top quality

I really enjoyed this, and I appreciate all the effort put in. I miss these old Army Men games.

We are so back 3D0 Bros

My dad bought me the series up to world war (except 2) on PC. As a kid, I loved doing skirmishes with bots on TIS. It's too bad no one has tried to capture the game's magic. Bring back Sarge!

Great video! It's really interesting to see someone else's strategy and tactics for a game I've played a million times! You even revealed some things that I either never knew (i.e., the location of minesweepers in some missions and some speed running techniques) or took me years to figure out (i.e., completing Act III Mission 3 in Alpine so quickly). I played Army Men on Windows 98 when I was a kid and still replay it occasionally. I'd like to share my own thoughts. By the way I find it funny how HQ only cares about rescuing captured Green troops if it'll help Sarge get the keys/portal! Desert: Basically agree with everything you said but I don't think Desert is the best campaign. In Act II I always bomb the tanks on Mission 1 and then take my men easily through the now-devastated "Possible Enemy Activity" area to reach my base. I remember Brute Force and Act III were super-hard when I first played the game. I saw you use mines extensively in Act IV Mission 1, but I always mortar my way through. Alpine: This is where our opinions differ. I LOVE Alpine. I think it's the best campaign in the game. I always felt like Desert was just being stuck deep in Tan territory, but the Alpine is Green country (more Green troops, Green bases with med-tents, etc.). I also think the slight variety in music was a welcome change to the same drum taps of desert. In the train mission I do it differently: I let the Tan flamethrowers chase me across the train tracks so the train can run them over. I then pick up the paratroopers for my coming assault. I then call up my squad, plant explosives on the train, and let the Tans chase me below the train so the train will take out the Tans when it explodes. After I drop my paratroopers, I then take that key. I also play Act III Mission 2 completely differently because I purposely play the hard way: I want the Green Army to succeed in its assault on the forest, so I drop my paratroopers and air strikes on the forest to help the Greens succeed and then complete the mission. Bayou: Couldn't agree more. This campaign is terrible. I don't know why it is that the final levels in games I love (i.e., Thief Gold and Thief II) end up falling off. I like letting the Tans and Grays kill each other for me and the music, but that's about it. Everything's too constricted and the devs throw everything they have at you in terms of infantry, not to mention far too few weapons to pick up. I didn't know about the explosives acting as mines; I always use mortars and bazookas. Anyway, great video, well researched and played. It's great to see a fellow Army Men lover! I think this game is the best one in the series, followed by Toys in Space, II, and RTS. Conversely the worst that I've played have been Green Rogue on PS1 and the entire wretched World War series on PS1 (especially Land, Sea, and Air and Team Assault, the former being extremely frustrating and the latter being mechanically broken and unfun; Green Rogue combines these awful traits into a horrid mess!). What do you think? How would you rank the Army Men games?