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From here, you can then tell your guys where you want them to go, what you want them to attack, or just have them stand there like a bunch of plastic statues. Selecting your units is surprisingly easy to accomplish with a quick button press, a sphere surrounds the soldiers that you want to command and grows with each additional click. In the real world, gameplay is what separates the dung from the beetle, and that my friends is what Army Men is seriously lacking.

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But concept isn't what makes an RTS game enjoyable if it were then there would be literally hundreds of titles on PC worth picking up in that genre alone. Oh, and if any of you out there have ever seen the Francis Ford Coppola masterpiece Apocalypse Now then you'd certainly appreciate the madman behind it all back-story (Think Kurtz with a melted toy head and you'll get the idea). Not taking itself too seriously is certainly one of the game's strong points and lends a refreshing look at the archetypal strategy set. Blasting ladybugs, blowing up toy bunkers, and hiding behind rubber duckies for cover is a nice change of pace from the usual strategy fare. Anyone who says they don't think that playing green against tan in a backyard battlefield isn't the epitome of all things righteous, is pulling your chain.

Needless to say we were quite a bit skeptical of the spanking new Army Men RTS review copy that came our way over the weekend, and sad to reportВї rightfully so.Дon't get us wrong, the level design and concept were pretty cool. Too bad that the lot of them range from bad to mediocre and sometimes worse.

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Whether it's a helicopter actioner or a squad-level blast fest, the series has certainly evolved into a diverse collection of titles.

Originally conceived as a real-time competitor for computer giants like Command & Conquer and Total Annihilation, Army Men appears to have branched off into every genre but its intended one since the inception. When will RTS fans finally get a respectable offering and end their phantom troubles? Enter 3DO and the Army Men series. It's almost as though there's an unspoken curse for genre-hopefuls that keep them from getting the product they deserve. But in not a single case, did any of them recapture the fun and depth that their Windows brethren possessed. Naturally there's been a couple of computer to console ports over the years with StarCraft, WarCraft, and Red Alert stomping our way a generation ago.

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