Army Men: RTS

Take command of little plastic men as they battle their way across a household battlefield.

Playing with army men is a right of passage for most children and with Army Men: RTS you have the chance to play with them again, this time digitally. Following tried and true RTS formula, players gather resources, build buildings, create an army in order to meet mission objectives. It's not just the green army versus the tan army either, as the player will face other opponents, mostly insects, help provide secondary objectives for the player to complete alongside primary mission objectives.

Game Play

Army Men: RTS plays like many other real time strategy games. Resources are gathered from the map, a base is built using those resources. New buildings will offer the ability to create new units and units also cost resources to build. The resources are electricity and plastic, as you might expect. These resources are gathered fairly humorously, from objects that the player finds scattered across the floor of the map. Each map is normal room in a house, and plastic is gathered from toys. Electricity is gathered from battery operated toys. There's a fairly wide variety of army men to build your army with as well as heroes to play that have improved stats and abilities. Vehicles like trucks, bulldozers and helicopters are available to build and play as well, completing the selection of all the toys you used to wage war with when you were a kid. There is a multi player mode as well, up to 8 people can wage war against each other on one map. Boosts like speed and improved firepower can be found hidden across these maps, providing bonuses for the players that finds them first.

Presentation

The look of Army Men: RTS fits the theme of the game, plastic looking models and household items like toys and kitchen appliances are all rendered in suitably. The single player missions follow a story line that is canon with the rest of the franchise. It pits the main character, Sarge, against a former green soldier turned tan and involves having the player fighting from the basement of the house up to the attic. It's a suitable story to frame the missions and level design is mostly fun with some option side missions available along with the main win conditions for each mission. unfortunately there are only eleven of these missions and the game won't take long to play through.

Pros

• Neat design with decent game play and level design

Cons

• Small mission number of missions and low game time