Army Men 3D is a third person action game released in 1999 by 3DO for the PlayStation. It basically turns the idea of playing with those green plastic toy soldiers into a 3D action game. Your enemies of course, are the tan soldiers.
You play the role of Sarge who must lead his armies against the tan soldiers across various terrain. Since this game is based on toys, some of those terrains will be familiar household territory such as the kitchen or backyard. The game is pretty straightforward 3rd person run-and-gun action with a variety of weapons including rifles, bazookas, grenades, flamethrowers and more. You can also control vehicles cuh as jeeps and tanks. Generally, each mission or level has a specific goal. Once you achieve the goal, you can move on to the next level.
The graphics were pretty average for a PlayStation game at the time. However, it did do a good job of making the characters and other items seem toy like. It's sort of like you are playing an interactive version of Toy Story (of course, there were Toy Story games as well). Likewise, the voice acting is campy and cartoon like adding a touch of humor to the game.
This was not a great game but it's still ok for a bit of fun if you are into the toy soldier theme. Camera angles aren't great, missions are somewhat repetitive, and perhaps worst of all there is no multi-player. None of this is enough to really make it a bad game though. It is to other 3rd person action games what Micro Machines is to racing games.
This wasn't the only Army Men game. In fact, there were quite a few. This was the third game in the main series and the first to appear on the PlayStation. There were nearly two dozen Army Men games in total with some being better than others.
The ad above is from the March 1999 issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly.
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Comments (4)
Dang! This game was one of the first game that I played on PS1, along with PepsiMan and Twisted Metal.
I remember this game like it was yesterday! In fact, the PS1 and PS2 versions of Army Men became some of my favorite third-person shooters at the time. It's a shame the franchise didn't continue and adapt to modern times. So good! What memories!
Somewhere around here I have a collection of CD-ROM Army Men games including the OG top-down ones and 3D. They were fun.
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