Army Men: Toys In Space

2K has retroactively changed their EULA. Now they collect literally anything on your computer (including but not exclusively visited websites or payment information for example). Not sure if they are also installing rootkit like software in the gog version like they do in non gog versions. gog should consider banning all 2k games because I dont think that their EULA complies with gogs vision...

Army Men is a fantastic idea for a game franchise. It's just very poorly executed. The controls are poorly executed, and re-mapping the keys doesn't help. You fight the controls more than the enemy. Enemy AI is way too responsive, even on easy. Weapon balancing is a joke. That plus the controls make the game stupidly hard to play. I don't regret buying it on sale. It's fun to putz with but it really is a pain to play.

I love and miss every single one of the Army Men games made. I pray one day they can all be remade and improved graphics to bring back some amazing memories for many. This game is old but fun, of course it has its issues but again its an old game where they were just figuring out this stuff.

I was told the controls would be bad, but instead they're way better and the control of the squad is very solid. Weapons are improved, explosions are fun, more unit types and skirmish! However, the game is indeed much harder than Army Men 2. I liked it at first and it felt tactical to me. But the grenade and mortar spam is annoying. That would be okay if the mortar men looked different and I could like snipe them or something. Get it while it's on sale.

I had a lot of issues getting this working properly. dgVooDoo 2 was required to play with minimal issues. It played fine after some tweaking. I have a lot of nostalgia for the series, so I enjoyed this game quite a bit. TIS is noticeably more difficult than Army Men 2. Your squad is a lot more fragile and doesn't carry over between missions. Regular enemies are far more deadly, causing multiple game overs in the first mission for me. Once I got over the difficulty spike, it was a much smoother experience. Most of the new mechanics comes from new pickups and alien/space characters. You now have access to bug spray, baseballs(?), helicopter strikes, and a few other powerups. The helicopter strikes are by far the most useful, the rest being highly situational. The missions are... fine. There are two base defence missions where the difficulty really rears its head. Savescumming feels like a requirement to be able to make it through those. Friendly AI seems to be pretty buggy. Multiple times I'd have units collide into each other and get stuck, which needed a revert to an earlier save to fix. Enemy units would come in and absolute melt my units while they just sat there and watched. Player controlled and allied tanks also seem pretty buggy. They're suuuuuper slow, but enemy tanks move at a normal pace. If you're like me and these games hold a special place in your heart, get it when it's on sale. Usually you can get the whole series for like $10.