Original source

https://www.4players.de/4players.php/dispbericht/Allgemein/Test/2916/3074/0/Army_Men_Sarges_War.html

Anyone who thought that after 3DO’s bankruptcy would finally have peace and quiet before further Army Men games was rejoicing too soon. Take 2 seems to have found an almost finished plastic soldier shooter in the bankrupt vulture’s licensing dump, which they now want to sell at a budget price as Army Men: Sarge’s War. You can find out in the test whether it is the usual hazardous waste or a surprisingly good bargain.

Cry for Vengeance

It’s hard to believe, but the green and beige armies finally make peace in Sarge’s War and all disputes are put to rest. But the suddenly pacifist toy soldiers have reckoned without the renegade Lord Malice and his henchmen.

Unscrupulous: The renegade Lord Malice has all your plastic comrades on the conscience (PS2).
As soon as the peace treaty is signed, an insidious bomb attack turns the entire party into a lump of plastic. Only Sarge, who returns late from a mission, survives the toy massacre. You can imagine everything else: Sarge wants revenge and doesn’t want to rest until he has hunted down Lord Malice.

To the weapons!

To do this, you fight your way through twelve linear levels divided into tiny sections and use a total of eight firearms and grenades to blast everything that stands in your way to a pulp. If you are initially solely dependent on your carbine, which is equipped with unlimited ammunition, you will soon be able to use more interesting calibers such as shotguns, bazookas, heavy machine guns or sniper rifles as the game progresses, with which you can literally tear apart your opponents.

That’s where the plastic flies

All of the plastic soldiers are extremely tough and sometimes even continue to fight with severed limbs, holes in their bodies or half of their head missing. It’s just a shame that you can’t achieve the same result with a flamethrower as you could with a magnifying glass in the sandbox…

Swiss cheese: With such major gunshot wounds, only a plastic soldier can fight on bravely (Xbox).
But even without plastic warriors melting together, the damage model can be quite impressive and its detailed hit zones will make you grin maliciously – especially if you’re playing against one (PS2) or three (Xbox) friends.

Multiplayer on the back burner

Nevertheless, the multiplayer mode is extremely poor: there are just four maps, no switchable CPU bots and no sensible online use. Xbox users can only play scheduled duels against friends from their Xbox Live contact list, while PS2 owners cannot go online at all. Alternatively, there is also the option of competing against each other via split screen, but since you can see all the opponent’s positions, ambushes or surprise attacks are virtually impossible, which significantly reduces the fun of the game – especially on the PS2, where only duels are possible anyway. On the Xbox you can go into battle with at least four people and also play other modes such as team progression (taking and defending positions) and capture the flag.