0 to Z of Playstation 1 Games - Army Men Green Rogue

     

Army Men Green Rogue also know as Army Men Omega Soldier in PAL regions is a third person action shooter and part of the Army Men series of games developed and published by The 3DO Company. The game released in both North America and Europe in April of 2001. Like the second Air Attack entry in the series this is a cross generation release so released on the Playstation 2 as well.

Green Rogue takes on more of an arcade feel to the previous entries in the series with the player alone without an army at your back just the Omega Soldier and an army of Tan soldiers to decimate.

As with previous Army Men games you have a nice selection of toys to bring said decimation with the likes of Bazookas, Flame Throwers and Grenade Launchers as well as other crazy weapons with 15 in total in the game.

The game is set at the same time as Sarge’s Heroes sub series of Army Men games, the war between the Green army and Tan army rages on, the Green army however has created a super soldier using the DNA of the Bravo Company commandos, by splicing together the DNA of these elite Green army soldiers scientists have created the ultimate soldier, this solider is called the Omega Soldier.

During the transfer of the Omega solider the transport is shot down in an ambush by two tan choppers, making an emergency landing behind enemy lines all but the Omega soldier are killed upon impact, awakened by the impact and left for dead it is up to the Omega soldier to stop the Tan army and go on a one man rampage through their ranks

Not a huge number of review available for this game the one that are available, well they stink with high reaching just 50 with the lowest review coming in at a dismal 10. As usual though we will start with the best which comes from All Game Guide who were highly critical of the games visuals, saying they lack any real punch and often get In the way of the actual gameplay.

A poor camera angle was another major issue the review had with distant objects near impossible to discern that to the camera. Frame rate issues were also a major issue for them especially when large numbers of enemies were on screen with the game slowing to a crawl at time. A generic world and even more generic and repetitive enemies. Concluding with One wouldn't expect anything different from the developers of every other sub-par Army Men game littering store shelves.

Swedish publication Super Play were the next highest review score with a 40 can’t really say much on this review as the various translators seem to struggle with Swedish one thing I have been able to discern they were critical of the poor animations.

Another 10 point drop in review score with Jeuxvideo.com who scored the game at just 30/100 the French publication summed up the game perfectly with the following. Poor performance and poor gameplay make it a truly disappointing title. To avoid !

The final two review and yes they get lower with a 29/100 we find PSX Nation who also summed up this title perfectly as well. Ask yourself this folks. With all the videogames out there (old and new) that you haven't rented/bought, or games in your collection that you haven't even bothered finishing yet (come on, we all have a few of these skeletons in our closets... literally!), why on Earth would you waste cash/time/grey matter on "Green Rogue"?

The final review and the dismal score of 10/100 games at this level are the equivalent of watching paint dry with NowGamer tearing into Omega Soldier with the game having non existent level design, sticky scenery and a frame rate that beggars belief concluding with.

You’ve a game which is bad on a totally new level. Omega Soldier’s release doesn’t just highlight its developer’s incompetence with a C compiler, but 3DO’s utter contempt for the consumer. Omega Soldier? Omega Straw

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 $4 if you are looking to trade in your copy of Army Men Green Rogue, if on the other hand you are looking to buy a copy of the game you will be looking at a $9 outlay for a copy form Gamedude.

Retrogames.co.uk who have just the one copy of the game available, it is the PAL version so is titled Omega Soldier rather than Green Rogue, this used copy in excellent condition with a disc quality rating of 10/10 will set you back just £3.

Moving on to eStarland.com who have a single copy of the Playstation version of the game this copy comes without a manual and is priced up at $11.96. eStarland also offer a trade in for the game and will give you $6.50 for your copy of the game. eStarland also have the Playstation 2 version of the game available, while used copies are currently out of stock a new copy of the game is available and is priced at $19.95.

Finally on to Amazon.com where we find the Playstation 2 version of the game is far more abundant with only 16 copies of the PS1 version available at the time of writing compared to over 50 PS2 copies. As with previous entries in the Army Men series the cheapest used copies on the market are largely incomplete ones, but there are a couple that pass the grade a used copy in very good condition is priced at $6.75 and comes with free shipping this is a complete copy as well.

A just up of just over $8 to for the next complete used copy of the game available on Amazon, priced at $14.23 once shipping has been added in, at the time of writing this these are the only two complete used copies on the market at Amazon.com.

Moving on to the new copies of the game and we find a significant jump in price between used and new with the minimum spend required for a new copy coming in at $43.92 once shipping costs have been added in. The only other new copy currently on the market is priced at $47.98.

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P J Gibbon