The Army Men series always had a loose bit of world building but travel between big world and the plastic world was almost always a thing , some games just spent a large ammount of time in the plastic world for some reason. I do like the idea that if they spend too much time in the big world they end up frozen and essentially the actual toy army men with a slightly dark idea that they are concious of whats happening around em

I always assumed the idea behind this was the "Meta Kid" who was imagining all this had entered his edgy teen phase and started coming up with new scenarios accordingly. lol

the natural progression of a little boy playing with army men to a tween who watches way too much ww2 on the history channel

Now that game deserves a "What Happened?" episode here.

My mom just found an Army Men: Sarge's War disc in a small trash pile at our local park today. And now here I am, logging on to find that Matt has done a video on this exact game. what the actual heck is happening

The funniest things in this game for me is that in multiplayer they made it so that if you take enough damage you for example can lose your characters left arm rather than just getting chunks of you blown off if you take enough damage. Yet that wasn't edgy enough for them because they don't stop there you can even get your head blown off and then run around headless while your head slowly grows back over the course of a few seconds.

Ah, the Toy Story spinoff no one talks about.

Wha happun to Army Men? There was like 20 games that released and then it just died

If I remember correctly, in heros you started in their world, but then you go through portals every now and then that puts you into our world. The tans used the portals to bring some of our stuff to their world and the game ended up being about destroying the portals. Well atleast that's all I could recall from my younger self playing it. And the blue ones are spies. And level 2 is a bathtub.

Something about a protagonist with New Order narration in a game with a villain literally cobbled together from 80s cartoon villains just gives me life

My bother and I really liked this at the time, it was so edgy in a silly way. I still remember tans walking across the stove. You turn it on and get super silly spaghetti western deaths while they melt.

Sarge's Heroes was great, but Army Men Air Assault 1 and 2 was legendary!

When’s my Army Men: *REVENGEANCE* Reboot ?!

I really enjoyed Sarges Heroes on N64, and wasn’t a big fan when this game took a super dark turn. Feels like it sucked out the fun of Army Men... a damn shame TBH...

I wanna say the game you’re thinking of is Green Rogue where you play as green dead pool essentially

I played Sarge's Heroes 1 and 2 on n64 and the levels were mixed with the theme :) some levels are their world and some take place in a big house, kid's room, kitchen, backyard, and toy store. This game didn't really feel out of place for me. I must admit that it does look strange seeing army men characters holding realistic guns. I'm more used to seeing the characters holding the plastic guns they had, i found it cute when they used firecrackers in Sarge's heroes 2. Overall this game is okay, I still prefer the n64 titles though. ^^"

There were like a dozen Army Men games in the course of just a few years. This series went through sequel flame out in record time.

Yeah, this game was a bummer, they took all the fun out with this one. I would love for the first few games to come out on PC.

I remember having a blast playing Army Men: Toys in Space back in the day as a 12 year old. Never played any of the console games.

Army Men 2 for the PC was one of my favorite games when I was a kid.

Can't thank you enough for playing this. I haven't seen this game in years. Totally thought 3DO made this apparently not though lol. You gotta check out Army men: Air combat sometime. Edit: the guns were definitely green, tan, blue and I think grey.

Man I wish my rifle could load it's magazine backwards and still fire perfectly.

I feel like not many people played Portal Runner 'that girl from that game' lol but it was surprisingly fun

At first, I thought this was Army men: Sarge's Heroes, a game my Dad loved to play on the dreamcast. This is definitely not that. What the heck happened?

I always get a chuckle going back to old army men games as an Irishman. Over here "tan" is a somewhat derogatory term for the English (named after the black and tans). The good guys being green is icing.

YES!!! I don't know why but I love this series of games lol

I remember playing Sarge's heros and the helicopter one. But I didn't know this existed.

I wish Sarge's Heroes 1 and 2 got remakes, they are really what gave the series it's identity.

I wish they'd remaster this series. Updated graphics, modern day engine, iron out the bugs.

I have the helicopter plastic army men game back in the day, and they honestly did a good job making the levels look like the real world to toys. For example, the first level was the entire backyard of someone's house and you had to fly around and take out bases.

Looks like things got rough after Woody left

From what I recall the reason why the tone shift is a thing in some games is because one of the games (Portal Runner) revealed that they are actually characters from toylines in the real world that contain different versions of the same characters with different backstories. Basically some of the toysets contain the old PC games universe. and others contain the Sarges Heroes version and so on and so forth So basically the dark Sarges War stuff is in a playset that is I guess edgy as shit lol

3DO put out 19 games in the Army Men franchise from 1998 to 2002. There were six in 2001 alone. That’s insane.

The army men live in their own world. But they eventually get portals that lead them to the real world. Army Men lore is deep Matt.

As someone who grew up with these games this being the really last 3do army men was great as from then on I moved to the more hard core army shooter

I REMEMBER THIS! My dad got it for me on the GameCube and I remember being slightly disturbed from the intro where the soldiers are being horribly melted or blown up. Definitely seemed pretty dark for a game about plastic toys.

I remember this on the GameCube having missed the whole Army Men franchise on the N64!! Wish I could play those older titles now.

Loved playing the multiplayer in this game as a kid so much fun

Ahhh yes, I was waiting for you to do this one

I remember playing the original games on PC, I definately remember some kind of RTS aspect. Also the first game was super serious aswell, I vaguely remember the intro having straight up WW2 stock footage lol. Really makes me want to give them a rip again and see how a 2 decade old PC game holds up from my childhood...

The first game was set in it's own world, it was the second Army men 2 & army men: toys in space were the first couple to make the jump from the greens & tans fighting in their own world to fighting in "our world"

Dude the Army Men series is horribly slept on. There is an insane amount of lore and content between all the games combined. Well most of them at least

I LOVED this game i was that kid that bought it cause the cover was cool looking i had a blasting this game didnt finish it on gamecube but bought it years later on xbox

I remember this game, holy crap. Yeah I still don't understand the sudden shift to a grittier tone for sarge's war, always felt that it went against what the franchise was about (toy soldiers fighting each other with a silly gi joe esc/ early ww2 movie cliche tone) but it was still a better game than major malfunction. Definitely deserves a What happened. Also this might go unread but according to the army men "DEEP LORE" there are evidently two worlds, the plastic army men world which is basically just like, the normal world only inhabited by plastic people, and then big world which is basically the normal world where the army men are toy sized. This was established at the end of very first army men game, but aside from that I don't care to remember too much.

This is my first game of the franchise, and I'll always cherish it.

When you quoted mgs3 at 11:27 I fucking died

never realized that Vicki lost her legs lmao

One of my favorite series as a child

8:30 I like that he referenced the best part of AVGN's Ikari Warriors review.

I only played Sarge heroes 2 and army men RTS, good times

I remember renting this as a kid from movie gallery and oh man it was so fun lol

When your kid wants to also play 40k on your game table like the grown-ups but they're still a little too young.

Oh man! I have a strangely long history with the Army Men games. Army Men: Sarge's Heroes was one of the first PS1 games I owned and later on, I got a collection of games for the PC. From what I remember: Army Men and Army Men: World War were RTS games, but you could control individual army men and play it like an overhead shooter. All of the environments were realistic WWII settings, but the characters and vehicles were all toys. Sarge's Heroes was lighthearted and tongue in cheek. It was all Vietnam era weapons and vehicles, and you went around rescuing your squad who were all war movie stereotypes - the BBQ flamethrower guy, the cowardly mine detector guy, and Sarge was like a war hero guy. And the Green and Tan armies were fighting a war in this realistic world, but the Tans found a teleporter (a giant toy) that let them travel into the real world and bring back weapons (other toys, like robots). So you would travel into the real world and be an actual army men in places like sandboxes, the kitchen, and bedrooms. Then there were the Air Attack games, were you piloted helicopters and it was an arcadey arena shoot em up. Those were a bit more serious in tone, but they were super goofy cause you'd fight off bugs and giant toys. I played a lot of Air Attack, but I only rented Air Attack 2 for the PS2. I remember it being far more serious in tone, but were kinda goofy with their missions. Like air lifting food and dropping it into enemy bases, to lure army of ants in to attack. This is the first I've ever seen of Sarge's Wae though, so thanks for the nostalgia trip!

The only thing I remember about "Sarge's Heroes" was the army guys were in their own universe, but I think the Tan Army made the portals to the "Real World" where they got shit like ants and even a level with a magnifying glass. I just really wanted a shooting game back then and this was all my mom would get me at the time lol.

I like the one on N64 also played the hell out of Army Men:RTS on a PS2 demo disk.

6:20 I'm sorry, did the game just Kaizo you?

Executive: Call of Duty revitalized realistic WW2 shooters. Have one out next year. ONE YEAR LATER Executive: BTW you're contractually obligated to release a new Army Men game like right now Developer frantically texting art team "paint the protagonist green": Already done, boss.

The portals are portals between the plastic world and the Real Life Big World

"Why even talk to him? Just go through the portal and stop it now!" That's the one thing that always confused me about this game. Sarge could've radioed the Colonel and told him to evacuate the square or get everyone inside buildings for cover but instead he just kinda fucked around on the phone.

I really loved this get as a kid, but I'd only played the RTS game up until that point. After playing the others, I understand why this wasn't liked much but I still think it's very fun, especially in multiplayer with the damage details on the soldiers. You can blow a hole through their chests or take off a piece of their heads and the other players can still run around and fight.

If the plastic army men were Games Workshop miniatures

I always thought the “joke” of this game was that it takes itself so seriously.

Rammbooo Commaanndoo Rammboo Commannddoo WHERE DID THEIR HAIRR GOOO????

Anyone else notice the giant claws on General Malice? Like it guarantees you'll have an assault rifle vs. werewolf fight against him at some point.

This game is Plastic Apocalypse but unintentional

I’d love to see if anyone remember Portal Runner, it was a spin off of this.

In army men air tactics for PC you control a helicopter and in the bedroom level they make you play simon says against the tan on a kids toy and play the board game "Go" against them so this tone is so weirdly different from the baseline comedy take on war waged by toys in the real world vibe from all those ones.

Such a cool game

You own Toy Commander on Dreamcast? That might be a interesting game to look at. This Sarge game definitely made me think about it lol.

I played army men Sarge's Heroes 1 + 2 on the PlayStation 1

Army Men RTS was the best one of the series... that I could conveniently never find anywhere to rent or buy as a kid.

Man, I have good memories of playing the Army Men RTS (whichever that one was) in the computer lab with the bois, sending in decoy army men to blow up their HQ from within and boat sneak attacks. What was that, Army Men 2?

I feel like 3DO knew this was going to be their last game and intentionly self-destructed the franchise.

Sarge eats the plastic of his enemies to grow his power

Yo these cutscenes look like that movie Foodfight

My first and only army men game :^)

True. Jankiness did make the Sonic levels in Adventure 1 more fun.

Played one of the N64 entries to death as a child .. but I was never aware of this particular title. Seems legit

Ya sarges hero’s was the best it was on the n64 and was one of my fav child hood games you did remember correctly you would be in various levels like a child’s room or outside of their house in the lawn etc. it was really good

No Jim Cummings in this game is a crime.

Not often a game fridges an entire cast.

Sarge's war was a semi-sequel to Army men RTS in the sense that it tells the same story while expanding on the concepts of molds from RTS. I believe at this time 3DO had sold the IP out of liquidation, the new company wanted to do a dark story that killed all main line characters so they could mold the franchise to what they saw fit and also Jim Cummings was far too expensive for them to keep bringing back (probably). If Sarge's heroes on the N64 was the rise, this game was the fall. The sequel to this game literately starts Sarge in a microwave being melted to death, and the reigns are handed to a random basic grunt character we've seen hundreds of at this point, then the game morphs back into a whimsically Army men adventure. its scary and gave me whiplash as a long time Army Men fan lol

Sarge, your magazine is backwards.

Yay a new video!!!!!

when sarge VA became batman

Deep Army Man lore the n64 one is a kid playing with them and the xbox version is like a lonely teen playing with them

Plastic Thanos.

Now we just need a Army Men and Doom Eternal crossover, or Unreal tournament.

Not gonna lie, I really wanna see ya play Buffy The Vampire Slayer Xbox Exclusive.

What happened to the Maximo series?

I pray that one of these days, a new Battletanx game will be made. Hopefully as good as Global Assault.

I played a lot of these games growing up you're an army man in your own world until you go into the portal it goes into our world where their toys

I had sarge's war on the GameCube I have beat this game like 10x growing up

You were sleeping a bit. The tan army opened a portal to our world. In effort to create a super weapon the tans invaded earth. Im a nerd damn

The Chad Captain William Blade > Virgin Sarge.

I get Postal 1 vibes from the load screens

Was that Darth bison? Darth dictator? Lol looks like bisons alt costume in sf4

Still baffled how Grimm was still voiced by Jim Cummings, but Sgt. Hawk wasn't...

I played this shit on gametab like 20 years ago.

What Matt is not caught up on his army men lore!? Geez it not that complicated.