I don’t know why everyone hates this game, I loved this game as a kid

This was their last game creation of 3DO production since 2004, the other game like GTA San Andreas, Star Wars Battlefront, MGS 3, Halo 2, Doom 3, SWs Knights of the old Republic 2, Warhammer 40k Dawn of War, The legend of Zelda: Four swords adventures, Fallout Brotherhood of Steel, and Paper Mario: The thousand-year door were making better sales than 3DO. Ultimately, the 3DO production had no choice but, file a chapter 11 bankruptcy in May 2003. The company's game brands and other intellectual properties were sold to rivals like Microsoft, Namco, Crave and Ubisoft, and also to founder Trip Hawkins, who paid $405,000 for rights to some old brands and the company's "Internet patent portfolio". Hawkins went on to found Digital Chocolate, a mobile-based gaming company. That was the end of 3DO and Army Men series. May they rest in peace.

I'd say Sarge's War is very misunderstood with it's story telling. There's two different deeper themes here, one is a classic case of "growing up with your audience." . The green army and bravo Company getting destroyed, meaning life can throw a curveball at anytime with little to no warning, and we all will eventually be forced to grow up and move away from our comfort zones. Places of nostalgia from our past being revisited, being old, decerped, and almost unrecognizable. We don't always need to revisit "the good old days", as it can do more damage than good, and life was a lot more black and white, then. Sarge later goes on to kill Lord Malice, only to realize it was one of his best men. He was stuck in the past, unable to forgive Sarge of something he had no control over, but Sarge forgives Malice. Sarge was able to move on, represented by him passing by the molds of his fallen bravo Company. He's accepted life for what it's given him, and has moved on. The second is the downfall of 3DO as a company. It starts off relatively the same, shooting tan baddies, going through portals, and having a good time with Bravo Company. Bravo Company represents the soul of the Army Men franchise as a whole. Murdered and killed off by bad corporate decisions, represented by Lord Malice. Sarge represents the heart of the devs and fanbase, who've grown up with the series/franchise. 3DO was already in the hole, and had been bought out by 2K, a merger of good and evil, green and tan. The devs of the game, under the new story writers weren't too happy with how Sarges war was turning out, and did their best to make it as good as it could be with the story they were given. The story writers were intentionally killing off the franchise, though the devs wanted to keep the creativity rolling. Obvioulsy this was going to be a shit show, and the game ironically tells us this by blowing everything we know and love into bite size peices of plastic. 2K knew we'd buy the game, they knew it would be a huge cash grab. Fast forward to when Sarge confronts Malice, or the devs and fanbase with nothing left confronting Malice or 2K, asking a simple "Why". Turns out it was one of sarges old friends, turned bad and blaming sarge for his downfall, similar to how 3DO blamed consumers for their consoles failure, and eventual downfall. Malice dies, along with old 3DO. Our childhood is done. Sarge passes by the molds of his fallen brothers, not realizing he could revive them, and moves on with his life, just like we, and the devs did. But there is still a small glimmer of hope that things could come back, even for a moment. There will always be hope.

I'm just now discovering this game existed. I had a seriously strong connection to the OG Sarge's Heroes on N64, and I liked all the characters. I absolutely cannot believe they just blow every character to hell in an instant in this game, it's got me dying here!

Man, i can't beleive the army men séries is over.

Rest In Peace Vikki the look and tone in sarges face and her funny response was deep... that hurts this game was in fact emotional for some plastic going to war sorry sarge sorry 3D0 you will be missed dearly - greenie out!

Holy cow... When did the army men series and Sarge get so dark and gritty

The storage tubes seen at the end implys that Malice made clones of Sarge's team and killed them just to play on Sarge's emotions so his real team could possibly still be alive out there somewhere

This was a good ending for my childhood regardless whichever company took whatever direction. Not everyone gets a happy ending.

They put the nail in the coffin for this series with this game.

Am I the only one who actually loved this game?

R.I.P. childhood. It hurt me a little on the inside when I found it years ago. At the same time. But what a strong way to end a classic series. Good story even if its sad.

Green town kinda looks like spain

So it has been said a few times already but the containers that had bravo teams's, viki's and Grimm's names indicates that the ones that were killed, were clones. I additionally read, I think it was on the wiki, that the story and cutscenes were actually done by 3DO before they went under and the other studio stepped in. So with that being said, I believe we were set up to receive another army men game that would possibly pick up on that last scene. There is also the fact that Alpha wolf squadron from Army men air attack 1 & 2 were not accounted for. So their statuses are unknown too. It sucks, but atm it seems unlikely we will get another sequel for the foreseeable future. One could hope though, and I have seen series that went longer without a new game come back so It's really just up too however owns the Army men IP.

To be honest, I actually like that they went edgy. War isn’t a comedy act. Wish they kept Jim Cummings tho

I understand 3DO went down the drain, but this game is just depressing. There's no point. They should have left it with the happy ending after portal runner. Not just because of the depressing factor, but because it's not possible if the first and second games story were true. Plastro's army discovered the portals before the green nation and started bringing in these W.O.M.D.s however, they first discovered it AFTER Sarge was the Bravo command unit's leader. Sarge discovered the portals for the first time on behalf of the green nation after him and Grimm escaped Plastro's attack on their base in mission 1. He went through it after finding the spy in Mission 2 / bringing him out of the portal to interrogate him once mission 3 was done. For "Sarge's War", the entire game is based on Sarge being a rookie who let his squad die and abandoned his commander when they were ambushed at an evac. point in the real world. Sarge was never in the real world as a rookie. If it happened in the plastic world at some point it would make sense, but the kitchen in the real world? No. Sarge was in the bathtub as the first green soldier to go through a portal. Unless the tan already took Thick to the Garden or Scorch to the sandbox, which I doubt because they would have gotten plastered by the time Sarge found them, but even still - that's not Sarge as a rookie with other rookies under "Major Gooding". Cheap last sale to make everyone salty about the series ending with the moral of the story being revenge doesn't fill the void / war is hell and hell is for heroes. Maybe they were really trying to just make it end off with any war results in both sides losing / war is dark and depressing stuff since the first two, portal runner, and air combat games kind of had a fun / kid friendly ring to it and wasn't graphic or anything; but, I think they just did it knowing they were going down so kill it for good in the event someone tries to buy the copyright or something and they can't destroy the series by changing it drastically. "If we can't profit / live off of making this no one else can take our work down the line and do it." RIP 3DO. RIP Bravo company. RIP Colonel Grimm. RIP Vicki Grimm. Be at peace Sargent Hawk. You are sorely missed. Wish we could have seen them find peace and Sarge marry Vicki. Only one that got away from all of this would be Bridgette Blue. (Unless her prison cell was near the explosion, but I doubt it.)

this is so deep for a kids game dam i can feel it scrolling down reading the comments then watching it rip 3D0 you made a great creation in this series

It's kinda funny how Tripwire is trying to revive the whole "green army" thing by re-skinning a Vietnam war game

I noticed that the newer ones didn't contain Vikki as I saw, I went to find this video to see why... That is just brutal...

this game gave me PTSD as a kid

This game was violent yet friendly due to them being plastic

12:50 they are alive. They're in these capsules. The ones killed were clones...

It’s like they played twisted metal black then thought, this would work well with army men.

My childhood, right here.

Sarge's war is the last game of Army men series that i knew when i was a kid and i havent seen anymore game afterward...i realized 3DO stopped after this game...the whole game telling us that "good time won't last"

This feels like Xavier: Renegade Angel tier lol

Games like this inspired me to enlist in the military

They should make a Animated movie about Army men series

i didnt born in 2000's,but this is the part of my childhood,i played this when i was 7,time flies fast....

This game tells a great story of war in general. Americas wars are this. We create the enemy for ourselves. But we can’t stop, that’s war, finding an enemy, or Making one.

You took my goofy action figure game an made it wayyy to serious

What a great series 👏

One of my favorite childhood fps

6:46 best moment in the game

But Sarge found out about the portals in Sarges Heroes 1, how was he in a squad in our world where all his comrades died as a private prior to the events of Sarge's Heroes? Continuity, what is that? The story sucks but the gameplay is great which is ironically my opposite opinion about the Sarges Heroes Trilogy, where I thought the gameplay was shit while the story was a lot of fun to watch. Weird how that works.

Loved this game growing up 🔥🔥🔥

More edgy than Shadow...

My god the nostalgia

El mejor de los juegos de la saga diría yo Varias armas,distintos tipos de Soldados,vehículos,buenos soundtrack durante el juego,le da una emoción tremenda,una buena trama,una historia muy profunda y seria,que muestra lo que realmente es una guerra,y creo que es uno de los pocos juegos de la Saga Army Men donde juegas contra el Jefe Principal,el Líder Enemigo

You left me to die I thought you were dead I was alive 😂

I loved this game so much

this is helpful because the weird abandonware version of the game i have doesnt load cutscenes.

This game was sad and depressing. Never got to beat it back then. But I was expecting at least a scene with blue soldiers like Bridget. She should've been there to at least comfort him at some point we all know she has the hots for him. Also, where else could he go? He helped save the blue town in part 2 so it's not like they'd try and kill him. Who knows how many greens are even left? Blue town is his best bet for now.

Loved this game

This game, even though I never actually played through it, gave me ptsd for army men. But I think I understand it. Still better then Soldiers of misfortune though.

One of my favorite games Ever

Even as a kid, I had a "hol up" moment when the general casually mentions that all Army Men are basically clones produced en mass specifically for war. That just seemed so effed up that it hit me harder than the bomb scene.

This game was awesome!

I really wish for a remake

If someone restarts the Army Men Series, I think that Sarge goes through a Special Portal aka a Time Portal and stops the Bomb before it killed everyone.

Man who voiced sarge in this game I know Jim Cummings did the other ones but this one sounds different yet awsome

Army men meant to be fun light hearted game not dark bloody revenge like MGS5

theres edgy but then theres sarges war, I like it even if its a bit corny at times plus its no were near the edge factor that is shadow the hedgehog so its actually a good game I'm in my opinion

Who the fuck thought it would be a great idea to write a dark, gritty, and serious story for PLASTIC TOY SOLDIERS?!

Yo I can't believe I never heard of this as a 30 year old Sarges Heroe's OG on N64

Damn... I forgot how dark this shit got

Sarge going full on B.J Blazkowicz

This was one of THE games as a kid. The best. Along with F-Zero GX, Super Smash Bros Melee, etc.

Too bad I can't get this to run in the Dolphin emulator. Everytime I've tried it, it gets stuck in an endless loading screen.

Such a strange way to take a toy soldiers game

Why this gets hate is because the story makes no sense. How could Sarge, when he was a rookie know about the portals and be in the other world. The story doesn't align with Sarge's Heros, not just this but other related things. Also, I just noticed Sarge's voice in this sounds like Omega in Green Rouge 🤣

When this game is more call of duty than modern call of duty

I knew I wasn't going to like this when I heard the different voice actors instead of the OGs

Damn.. i never knew Sarge's companions are dead,Viki's dead..even Plastro. 😢😱

5:22 Why didn’t sarge call in advance? He was just talking to Malice

Yeah, this game had a slight tone shift compared to the other ones.

The darkest Army Men game...

it seems like the VA was dubbed over last second as if Jim backed out, or the developers had intentions of bringing him back to voice the heroes, but something went wrong with the negotiations or something. It seems so odd that this is both a worse version of the story told by Army Men RTS and at the same time also a decent continuation of it with the concepts of molds being expanded on, especially with the implications left at the end that Sarge can just mold all of the green army once again.

as their final game, this is a dark way to end the series. a true tragic

Unfortunately this game gets so much hate. Personally this is my favorite army men game. The story is dark and gritty but I think it actually fits well. I believe that what we play and see is how the kid who plays with these army men sees. We start off in sarges hero’s with a kid who just got his army men toys. He uses his endless imagination to creat a story and a world where anything can happen. Then sarges hero’s two where the kid is a little bit more mature. There’s a bit more violence and there’s a tad bit of a more mature tone. Then we get to sarges war. The kid is growing up. He glances at his army men with his teenage eyes. He starts to play and realizes he’s having a harder time using his imagination. He creates a world where it’s sarge and sarge alone with the tans. Therefore making it his war. It’s darker because he’s not a little kid anymore. Innocents has been lost. As sarge takes down malice, the kid puts down his toys. He packs them up and puts them away. Therefore officially ending, sarges story.

this game like blink: the time sweeper from the Xbox made me so angry as a kid when i couldnt pass it. the cut scenes in this game were so good. the gameplay and more content could of made it better.

When did Sarge turn into discount Max Payne? I still liked this game a lot tho!

was this written and directed by a 12 year old?

Being forgotten ≠ Killing friends and family

Some people don't consider this game canon since it's Not made by 3DO and Jim Cummings is not voicing any of the characters

Look like a Sammy Lawrence

Bro how to download this game

but if they do bring it back I think Sarge should be the leader of the green Nation but in the huge world. But how did they take over are destroyed the green nation in the tan Nation unless they order 66 it and then mocked up the rest of the soldiers of the tan and green but still there will be remnants of the tan and green army and they be other nations.

Holy crap, that's edgy af

POOR SARGE

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Has anyone tracked down a writer on this story and asked if that’s the heroes alive at the end ??

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How to make a game about plastic soldiers extremely dark and gritty 101. Such a shame the Army Men series dropped off a cliff after this one

I never understand why they stopped using certain characters in these games... like where is Captain Blade and his crew in this game? The best characters were from the Air Attack games, but they're never seen again in the other games?

god i thought this was the coolest shit when i was 7 years old now i just see how edgy it is. everyone i know and love just died, i must FIRE TWO BIG GUNS IN THE AIR BECAUSE I AM UPSET.

I don't think I heard about this one.

I'll admit, I loved this game as a kid, but I know it's not a good game at all. They stripped the charm of the original for a serious cliche war story. The original games didn't take themselves seriously even the ww one. while this one and Major malfunction stained the franchise by killing off Hawk, making this story and all the others pointless. HOWEVER, Malice was a cool fucking villain!

Top ten anime deaths : 5:51

Really boils my plastic balls that Major Malfunction had the gall do that prologue scene where a "sergeant hawk" model gets "melted in a microwave"... and then the game is nothing like the Army Men or Sarge's games... it's much worse. The Army Men series negative reception has more to do with being released in an unfortunate era of gaming rather than being "bad". Imagine if the idea didnt start until 2015... I feel it would have been much more successful.

Batman voice

Explosión 5:51 #theloudhouse #nickelodeon #spongebobsquarepants

God I miss GameCube .

Army Men is a game where play as a children's plastic toy, why is this depicted as a Vietnam war. Like, lighten up game, this isn't CoD: World at War here.

This is what Andor and Rogue One looks like to non Star Wars fanboys. Edit: Oh yeah and don't get me started on those Force Unleashed games.

This plot is so stupid lmao

My cod

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Army Men Black

This was a terrible direction. I'd like to think Portal Runner was 3DO's best and final work to the Army Men Saga