0 to Z of Playstation 1 Games - Army Men World War Team Assault

        

Army Men World War Team Assault or just Army Men: Team Assault in PAL regions is the fourth entry In the World War sub series of Army Men games released on the Playstation, the game is a 3^rd person action shooter and as with previous entries in the series the game was published by The 3DO Company.

The game however was not developed by The 3DO Company, Nevada based 5000ft Inc would develop the game with it releasing first in North America on the 28^th of November 2001 with a European release two days later on the 30^th of November 2001.

The main campaign for the game consists of 16 stages each featuring the usual Army Men style missions such as, destroying a specific object like a bridge to escaping from a POW camp. Before beginning each mission the player has the choice of 2 of the six playable commandos in the game to take into that specific mission.

Each of the commandos have their owns stats resulting in each commando being more useful in specific situations in addition to their own specialities they have stats for speed, stealth and hit points. During the course of a stage the player is able to switch between the two commandos as well as some stages featuring heavy weapons such as tanks, aircraft artillery and submarines.

In addition to the main single player campaign mode the boot camp, which is called training in this release returns which allows the player to get use to the controls and weapons of the game, as well as the usual 2 player mode with players able to play Capture the Flag and Grudge Match.

The long running war between the Green and Tan armies has grown to a halt, both armies are at an impasse with neither army having the capability to deal the final blow and end their enemies resistance. The Tan army resort to developing weapons of mass destruction.

The Green army put together a crack team of commandos to stop the Tan’s plan for the mass destruction of the green army this crack team consists of the silent but deadly Xhado, the savvy mechanic and heavy weapons specialists Dante Hernandex, the explosives and communications expert Armand "Flambé" Nestor.

Another expert in explosives with a side speciality in linguistics we have Bjorn "Boomer" Thorson, taking headshots from a mile away is your teams sniper Gib "Squirrel" Farrell, and rounding off your team is your heavy weapons specialist Tyke "The Tank" Morgan.

Critics reviews for this game are none existent so we will have to rely on user data for the game first up IGN users have rated the fourth entry in the World War sub series of the Army Men franchise at a 7.0/10 this is from a total of 13 user ratings.

Heading over to GameFAQs for their user data next where we find a total of 28 users rating this game with a pretty decent average rating of 3.59/5 which equates to around an 71% on a site like Metacritic or Gamerankings.

Breaking down that average rating the game scored pretty well with a majority rating the game either a 3/5 or a 3.5/5, four users each rated this game at either a very good 4/5 or an excellent 5/5 while the remaining couple of users could only rate this game as average with a 2.5/5.

A good number of users rated the game difficulty with a majority of 46.67% of users rating the game as being on the tough side, 33.33% which equates to 5 users rated the game as having just the right difficulty level while the remaining 20% of users found the game easy, Averaging out that works out at a just right/tough difficulty rating.

Game lifespan up next with just the seven users rating this category with a fairly even spread of playtimes, with a couple of users spending 8 hours with the game, another couple spend 12 hours with it. A big jump to the next user who amassed 40 hours of game time with a couple of users even spending upwards of 60 with the game, averaging out this comes to around 28.6 hours of time spent with the game.

This is the part of 0 to Z where is visit four online retailers and see what the availability of the title is, and what price you would be looking at if you wanted to pick this title up, the sites that I will be using for this are Amazon.com, eStarland.com, retrogames.co.uk and Gamedude.com I know the last one is very location specific, but from a podcast I listen to, I’ve heard they have a huge stock of older games, Ebay has now been dropped unless the game is unavailable at other retailers.

So lets get down to business with Gamedude who will give you $1 if you are looking to trade in your copy of Army Men World War Team Assault, if on the other hand you are looking to buy a copy of the game you will be looking at a $5 outlay for a copy form Gamedude.

Retrogames.co.uk up next who have just the one copy of the game currently available, this is for a used copy of the game in very good condition, the disc could have been in better shape with a 6/10 disc quality rating, this copy can be picked up for £4, please not this is for the PAL version of the game so will not work on Japanese or North American consoles.

Moving on to eStarland.com who have two used copies of the game available the first a complete copy of the game, this can be picked up for $9.50. The second copy currently on the market is an incomplete copy of the game, it comes with the disc, cover and manual but no case this is priced up at $7.60.

eStarland.com also offer a trade in for this game, with them willing to pay up to $4 for a copy of the game, this price will fluctuate depending on the completeness of the copy, with eStarland paying $2.80 if the game has no manual, $2.60 if it is missing the case and $1.40 if it is missing both.

Lastly we move on to Amazon.com where we find a plentiful supply of copies available with a good quality complete used copy of the game available for $8.93 once shipping has been added in. For around the $11 mark a very good condition copy of the game can be picked up again this is a complete copy of the game, with several complete copies in good or very good condition around this price range available.

A like new copy can be picked up for slightly more one copy is priced at $16.75 once you have added in the shipping costs, this is not the cheapest like new copy available though, on the final page of used copies we find two like new copies priced up at $12.45 and $14.78.

If you are on the market for a new copy of the game Amazon.com has a decent number of them currently on the market, with prices starting at $29.99 this copy also comes with free shipping as do three other copies on the market, all three shipping with Amazon and are priced between $32.32 and $33.35. Price for a new copy of the game are currently reaching a high of $48.56.

Written by

P J Gibbon