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.
