RTS was the peak on the career history of Sarge Hawk and their heroes.
Army Men: RTS takes place Real World, where Tan and Green Army Men wage war across different house scenarios. There are other side mission in their native Plastic World. But RTS campaign only takes place in the Real World.
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After the events of Portal Runner, this conflict centers around a house. It had been under control of a Tan military leader named King Plurtz 1. So the house fell into Tan hands, and Sarge was dispatched to terminate the Tan leader and regain total control of the region for the Green.
The military leader of the region, Colonel H.P. Blintz was seriously wounded on the battlefield, leaving him out of action. After that they lost one of the houses under the rule of this new military Tan leader, who made that house his personal fortress, launching attacks from that place that complicated the Green presence in the region.
One more day at work, sir
The interesting thing about this story is that it is nothing more than “just another day on the job,” as the Bravo Company described it (although it actually lasted a little more than a day).
Real behind the game facts:
This is the Army Men game fans have always wanted to play! Army Men: RTS is a deep and strategic war game without the intimidation factor of other Real-Time Strategies.
Army Men: RTS is a real time strategy game in the Army Men video game series released on the PlayStation 2 and GameCube in 2002, and Microsoft Windows in 2004.
The game includes 16 campaign missions, 8 Special Operations missions (not present on the PC version), and 8 Great Battles missions. The game revolves around collecting resources (Plastic & Electricity) and using it to build structures, vehicles, and troops while fighting the Tan army. Each structure/soldier requires a certain amount of resources.
- This was one of the last games released by 3DO before they filed for bankruptcy.
- This is the last game of the series released by 3DO before Global Star Software bought Army Men though 3DO started work on Army Men Sarge’s War before going under.
- Army Men RTS is one of only two Army Men game ever released in Japan, being published by Capcom as Totsugeki! Army Man: Shijō Saishō no Sakusen (突撃!アーミーマン 史上最小の作戦, lit. “Assault! Army Man: The Smallest Strategy in History”). The game itself still enjoys a small, but loyal, fanbase in Japan and is possibly the reason why Army Men Strike was given a Japanese release.
- The Campaign is a parody of the plot of the movie Apocalypse Now.
Gameplay:
Army Men: RTS’s gameplay requires the acquisition and control of two resources; plastic and electricity, which are necessary to construct combat units and buildings. Plastic, which is required for all normal units, is taken from everyday objects, including Frisbees, dog bowls, and toys. Additionally, whenever a unit or structure is destroyed, a chunk of plastic worth a fraction of its initial cost appears where it was destroyed. Plastic is ‘harvested’ by Dump Trucks. Electricity, which is required for vehicles and Radio operator equipment, is drawn from electrical objects, such as batteries, toasters, and walkie-talkies. A particular structure, the Resource Depot, must be built to collect the resources gathered by the Dump Trucks.
Players use their resources to construct buildings and units. Since both factions have access to the same buildings and units neither side has an innate advantage over the other. Some buildings construct new units while others provide defense for a base. The production buildings can be upgraded to produce better units. Units are either infantry or vehicles. Infantry troops are cheap to produce but are not as tough, while vehicles tend to be costly. Vehicles range from passive (dump trucks and base-building bulldozers) to aggressive (tanks and half-tracks) to defensive (mine layers) to suicidal Dum-dums, (robots armed with firecrackers). Aside from grunts and grenadiers, infantry units have a special task; minesweepers clear out traps, snipers are potent anti-infantry units, and mortar men can annihilate buildings from afar.
Due to the nature of each unit, players must be able to counter whatever they are facing. A group of snipers could wipe out a force of grunts with ease, but the same group of snipers would be helpless against a half-track. Countering the half-track with a tank would leave a weakness to choppers. Players must balance both the relative strengths and weaknesses of their forces and their opponent’s forces with the cost of producing the units.
Level balance can be changed by other factors. Power-ups, which can improve the speed, health, or damage of whichever side finds them first, cause a disparity between the sides. Heroes, powerful versions of the regular infantry, can cause great damage before being destroyed. Insects, chiefly ants, act as free units for whichever side is allied with them. The secondary objectives of single player missions often deal with one of these things.
Multiplayer:
The Windows version of Army Men: RTS allows for multiplayer with up to eight people. A copy of GameSpy Arcade was bundled with the game. Players can team up in multiplayer matches, or the battle can be a free-for-all. Victory occurs when the opposing side has no Headquarters and cannot build one in three minutes. Aside from GameSpy Arcade, offline connections can be made on a LAN or through a direct connection between players. Most people were part of a Clan when Gamespy Arcade was active.
The Steam version of the game has no functioning online multiplayer, and GameSpy has gone defunct. The Multiplayer can still be played offline, via LAN emulated connection Online, or with AI controlled enemies.
The Multiplayer is noteworthy as it marked the only time the previously unseen Orange Nation was ever depicted in the games as one of the eight playable factions present. In addition, three newly introduced nations are also playable in this mode, The Purple Nation, The Teal Nation and The Olive Nation, marking the only time in the games that these nations were ever mentioned or seen in any form. The 3 new colors coincidentally resemble Agent Cobra Blue and The Blue Spy from Army Men: Green Rogue and the Green Soldiers seen in Army Men: Sarge’s War.
Sources for this article:
Army Men RTS Website from Archive.org Wayback Machine
https://armymen.fandom.com/wiki/Army_Men:_RTS