Army Men: Air Attack 2

Army Men: Air Attack 2 (Army Men: Air Attack - Blade's Revenge in Europe for the PlayStation 2 version and Army Men: Air Combat - The Elite Missions for the GameCube version) is a third-person shooter video game developed and published by The 3DO Company for PlayStation, PlayStation 2 and GameCube.

Army Men: Air Attack 2
Developer(s)The 3DO Company
Publisher(s)The 3DO Company
SeriesArmy Men
Platform(s)PlayStation, PlayStation 2, GameCube
ReleasePlayStation
  • NA: November 6, 2000[1]
  • EU: November 24, 2000
PlayStation 2
  • NA: March 27, 2001[2]
  • EU: June 8, 2001
GameCube
Genre(s)Third-person shooter
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Gameplay and premise

Following the events in Army Men: Air Attack and previous Army Men games, players control a helicopter in the Green Army against the Tan Army, working with character William Blade to defeat their enemies. Players can unlock abilities and weapons by collecting plastic. It features cooperative and competitive multiplayer modes. Players are accompanied by co-pilots, each of which has a special secondary weapon unique to them.

Reception

The PlayStation 2 version received "generally favorable reviews", and the PlayStation version received above-average reviews, while Air Combat - The Elite Missions received "generally unfavorable reviews", according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.[4][5][6] Samuel Bass of NextGen said of the PlayStation version in its January 2001 issue, "This tiny plastic Apocalypse Now may be short-lived, but it's still one hell of a lot of fun."[22] Five issues later, Jim Preston called the PS2 version "the best-looking Army Men game ever made, and it's actually pretty fun too. We're as surprised as you are."[23]

2 Barrel Fugue of GamePro said of the PlayStation version, "Packaged with mediocre graphics and underwhelming sound, Army Men: Air Attack 2 isn't terrible, but it can't come close to those long summer days when all you needed was a sandbox and a little imagination."[28][lower-alpha 3] Later, Four-Eyed Dragon said of the PlayStation 2 version, "If you're looking for action-packed combat shooting in the skies---plastic style---sign up for a tour of duty with Air Attack 2. You won't be disappointed."[29][lower-alpha 4]

Notes
  1. In Electronic Gaming Monthly's review of the PlayStation 2 version, two critics gave it each a score of 8/10, and the other gave it 7.5/10.
  2. In GameFan's viewpoint of the PlayStation version, three critics gave it each a score of 75, 72, and 79.
  3. GamePro gave the PlayStation version two 2.5/5 scores for graphics and sound, and two 3/5 scores for control and fun factor.
  4. GamePro gave the PlayStation 2 version three 4/5 scores for graphics, sound, and fun factor, and 4.5/5 for control.

References
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  2. "3DO Ships Army Men ® Air Attack ™ 2 for the PlayStation®2 Computer Entertainment System". The 3DO Company. March 27, 2001. Archived from the original on October 14, 2001.
  3. "3DO Ships Army Men®: Air Combat™ 'The Elite Missions'". The 3DO Company. March 25, 2003. Archived from the original on April 23, 2003.
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  9. "PlayStation Reviews (A)". Gamecenter. CNET. Archived from the original on February 10, 2001. Retrieved May 29, 2022.
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  11. Lockhart, Ryan; Einhorn, Ethan; Johnston, Chris (June 2001). "Army Men: Air Attack 2 (PS2)" (PDF). Electronic Gaming Monthly. No. 143. Ziff Davis. p. 106. Retrieved July 18, 2022.
  12. Helgeson, Matt (December 2000). "Army Men World War Land Sea Air [sic] and Army Men Air Attack 2". Game Informer. No. 92. FuncoLand. p. 111. Archived from the original on July 19, 2009. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
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  22. Bass, Samuel (January 2001). "Army Men: Air Attack 2 (PS)". NextGen. No. 73. Imagine Media. p. 105. Retrieved May 29, 2022.
  23. Preston, Jim (June 2001). "Army Men: Air Attack 2 (PS2)". NextGen. No. 78. Imagine Media. p. 81. Retrieved May 29, 2022.
  24. "Army Men: Air Combat - The Elite Missions". Nintendo Power. Vol. 166. Nintendo of America. March 2003. p. 136.
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  27. Saltzman, Marc (May 2, 2001). "'Army Men' games not created equal". The Cincinnati Enquirer. Gannett Company. Archived from the original on July 5, 2006. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
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