Army Men

Army Men (1998) is a real-time tactics game by The 3DO Company built around a surprisingly straight-faced premise: plastic soldiers—Green vs. Tan—fighting a full-scale war across miniature battlefields. Campaign missions revolve around clear operational goals (recon, demolition, secure-and-advance) and are typically driven by Sarge and his squad, pushing you to read terrain, manage angles of fire, and keep your force intact as objectives escalate. A standout bit of flavor is its black-and-white, old-school war-newsreel style storytelling, which sells the toy-war concept with a wink while still treating each mission like a real operation. The result is a “small-unit push” experience—less about twitch shooting, more about steady forward pressure, timing, and not overextending when the battlefield turns messy.