Tactical Toys - Army Men RTS Review

[@blknmongl342]

Late 90s to early 2000s games have that magic that a lot of contemporary ones lack a lot.

[@andreykuzmin4317]

Me and my best friend at the time were binging it. "Base under table, base under table, repeat!" became a part of our lexicon.

[@CloudWolf-zu7eq]

@@andreykuzmin4317 that’s honestly really wholesome haha 😆 Ty for sharing

[@emperortrevornorton3119]

I love the story of these games for the humor not the game play remember playing 4 player Sarge's Heroes 1&2 on N64 with my cousins and friends

[@martind5653]

Vikky is something like spy - war reporter/news journalists for the Green nation. Unlike this game where Army men are depicted as pure toys almost, they originally come from their own world where Green and Tan are superpower nations in keeping each other in balance with smaller Grey and Blue nations around them. And then they discover portals to our world and keep fighting there.

[@CloudWolf-zu7eq]

@@martind5653 oh cool !! Tysm I’ve been hoping someone would fill me in on her. I remember the portals from the sarges games , might be a good reason to try those on emulator if they run well !

[@MWSfan18]

She's also the daughter of the colonel and Sarge's girlfriend.

[@masonpellazar6543]

I played this on PS2, man that was a time. Always remember the mission where Sarge swears (bleeped of course). 10yr old me was quite shook hearing swearing in my video game.

[@Greatdictator]

I really wish someone would take the Toy RTS aspect again, and not like a tower defense or something but a actual RTS inside a house campaign, i just loved this games asthetic

[@CloudWolf-zu7eq]

@@Greatdictator for real it’s such a great concept ! Pikman is the closet with the yard but nothing matches the indoors levels

[@Ferrilata_-tg3gl]

Holy crap. This was my first RTS, too. I had the gamecube version on the wii, but the gamecube memory/storage card thing we had was corrupted so I could not save progress between sessions. But I was too young to really care about that. Thanks for covering this, I really wanna find how to replay it and complete it but apparently my computer is too modern for it 😭

[@CloudWolf-zu7eq]

@@Ferrilata_-tg3gl honestly that’s really cool you played it on the Wii never though of that! And yeah it’s hit or miss with new computers, iv made it work on old work laptops before though !

[@jonathanliszkahackzell1207]

Hidden gem spotted. Great video with quality exceeding my expectations of such a small channel.

[@CloudWolf-zu7eq]

@@jonathanliszkahackzell1207 omg thank you so much for such kinda words :3 really appreciate it, and glad you liked it ,I do wanna start making these videos regularly come the Fall

[@emperortrevornorton3119]

Even though they are B to lower A tier titles I find them as nostalgia from my childhood to young teen years

[@COOLZGOON]

wow, awesome video! took me back to my childhood!!

[@martind5653]

Once you go Tan, you never go back... Green. Or something.

[@Markos_Malitsos]

I remember playing and loving this game on the GameCube as a teenager, sadly never beat it though.

[@CloudWolf-zu7eq]

@@Markos_Malitsos thank you for watching , it’s available on GOG now if you came get it to work !

[@CloudWolf-zu7eq]

@@Markos_Malitsos thank you for watching and no worries haha I didn’t either until this play through !

[@statstats3724]

Now this is nostalgic. I thought this was the best Army Men game as it all took place in the 'real world', which was the most fun part of the setting (I enjoyed the other games, but being in a fake plastic world tended to not look great). I do actually know of one other game with the resource recovery from destroyed units mechanic - Supreme Commander. The units in that would (sometimes) leave behind a burnt hulk that could be broken down into 'mass', one of the two resources (the other being energy... kind of similar to Army Men RTS in that way too. And both of them ate up many many hours of my childhood, though it's only Supreme Commander that I actually go back to these days).

[@CloudWolf-zu7eq]

@@statstats3724 good point actually! I actually havent played SC even though I know it’s amazing 🌟 hoping to play it for on this channel though

[@statstats3724]

@@CloudWolf-zu7eq Ooh, sign me up for watching that! One piece of advice; save the game before completing objectives. I found that repeatedly the map would expand in an unexpected direction, a vast horde of enemies would pour in, and if you were used to that map edge being... well, the edge of the map, then that can throw a bit of a spanner in the works! But Supreme Commander's campaign goes from 1 to 10 in scale and intensity, then Forged Alliance takes it from around 8 to 11!

[@themainframe4687]

so i found out army men strike is not at all related to the army men games and volcanic are a Chinese mobile game studio.. the army men franchise is owned by 2K :)

[@martind5653]

I see youtube algoritmus told creators it's time for Army men nostalgia time.

[@TheQuenchiestCake]

A favorite tactic of mine I've only ever used against bots is getting a couple of snipers and mortar men, use the snipers as spotters for the mortar men and take out buildings at long range, if infantry comes the snipers will pick them off fairly well, though usually I have them high tail it if they see enemy armor or a high enough enemy count.

[@AceD500]

:D Poor Nintendo do not like thier Gamecube console bombed by toy soldiers airstike at end of mission 8 BTW i just saw box of Green Rouge game

[@Henchgirl7342]

Good game I barely got to play as a kid. Nice playthrough and review

[@CloudWolf-zu7eq]

@@Henchgirl7342 tysm !! Hope I could whip up some nostalgia for ya !

[@Henchgirl7342]

@@CloudWolf-zu7eq you did ! Thanks for that !

[@ConnorNichols-iv2hd]

As someone with nearly 20 years of experience in this game. You can beat the game with only 3 units. Grunts, Grenadiers and Guard towers. Grunts for attack and reinforcement, Grenadiers to crack defenses. And Guard towers to defend from patrols. 😅 In my experience building advanced units like MG and Bazooka are generally not worth it because they take too long to train and are too slow and have poor hit points. I usually back up my grunts with half tracks if the area is very well defended, as they can shoot at everything and are an all round powerful unit.

[@jettheyoshi4784]

if i had a nickel for every furry i knew who had a childhood playing this game, id have at least two. one of those being me :3 i sunk an ungodly amount of time.into the PS2 version of this game and managed to gold all of the missions, from the campaign, to the great battles and spec ops.

[@CloudWolf-zu7eq]

@@jettheyoshi4784 lmao love that and that’s so cool, did the PS2 run differently ?

[@jettheyoshi4784]

@@CloudWolf-zu7eq other than the controls, not really. and also, i feel i should mention the sandbox map is used for the tutorial as well as Great Battle 8 Sandbox Shenanigans.

[@CloudWolf-zu7eq]

@@jettheyoshi4784 oh dope tysm !

[@jettheyoshi4784]

@@CloudWolf-zu7eq np :3

[@jettheyoshi4784]

@@CloudWolf-zu7eq hey Cloud, are you gonna play though the Great Battles?

[@justlogan6979]

I wish the Army Men franchise would come back in all versions. The top down tactical shooter, the third person shooter and of course the RTS. Mean Greens and Attack on Toys just don’t do it for me. I need the story

[@nikosavolainen810]

[@CloudWolf-zu7eq]

@@nikosavolainen810 thank you for watching