Small Soldiers: Squad Commander

Small Soldiers is what happens when the toys you used to play with when you are were a kid come to life and start a full-scale war in your backyard.

Small Soldiers: Squad Commander
By Hasbro Interactive

 

sold1min.jpg (6971 bytes)This is an entry-level strategy game aimed at the younger market, or people who want a lighter version of a typical real-time strategy game. The action is viewed from the top with very attractive graphics, some nice cut scenes and colourful sprites. Sound-wise the game falls into the standard real time strategy trap, containing a limited set of phrases which the figures emit, over a cyclic soundtrack.

You start the game with a toybox and three action figures, which you lead on 20 missions throughout the local community, including backyards, bedrooms, and the local store. The toybox contains a number of reinforcements that you can call on, although later in each mission it becomes frustrating having to troop your men through parts of the mission already completed. These figure, each with their own stats, which define things like strength and speed.sold2min.jpg (12264 bytes)

The game has a bit of a platform feel mixed with the strategy, with certain puzzles to solve and powerups spread around the levels.

There are two difficulty settings, beginner and expert, the latter being reasonably challenging.

Small Soldiers should keep the younger crowd happy for hours, however the lack of diversity and multiplay may turn off more seasoned players.

By Andrew Ritchie

 

Small Soldiers: Squad Commander

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Win95
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Classification: G8+
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Description: A strategy game suitable for kids and the rest of us, based on the film, 'Small Soldiers'.
Requirements: Pentium 100, Windows  95, 16M RAM, 4x CD-ROM drive, 30M hard drive space, SVGA card, Sound Blaster-compatible soundcard, DirectX 5.
Install instructions: Download the file to your hard drive, then unzip it and run the EXE file.
Links online: http://hasbro-interactive.com/cgi-bin/store/beenframed.cgi?sssquadcom.html

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