Army Men: Green Rogue

Army Men: Green Rogue (Army Men: Omega Soldier in Europe for the PlayStation) is a shoot 'em up video game developed and published by The 3DO Company for PlayStation 2 and PlayStation.

Army Men: Green Rogue
North American cover
Developer(s)The 3DO Company
Publisher(s)The 3DO Company
SeriesArmy Men
Platform(s)PlayStation 2, PlayStation
ReleasePlayStation 2
  • NA: March 20, 2001[1]
  • EU: April 6, 2001
PlayStation
  • NA: April 11, 2001
  • EU: April 27, 2001
Genre(s)Shoot 'em up
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Gameplay

The game takes the form of top-down, forward scrolling shoot 'em up in the vein of Commando or Ikari Warriors.[2] Unlike those games it features a 3D environment with polygonal enemies, instead of 2D sprites, and the screen is constantly scrolling forward.[3]

Green Rogue was a newcomer in a long line of army men games from 3DO, many aimed at an arguably undiscriminating juvenile audience, with fair to middling critical responses. Despite that, Green Rogue featured some atypical gameplay, including multiple upgradeable weapons with nine levels of potency, a "biostrike" smart bomb, and a supersoldier mode. However, as lamented by one of the game's designers,[4] some of that gameplay may have been overlooked by reviewers.

Reception

The PlayStation 2 version received "generally unfavorable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.[5]

David Chen of NextGen called it "a harmless enough diversion, but there are better ways to spend your time."[13] David Smith of IGN complimented the FMV opening but added that once the opening movie ended the quality took "what Bill Hicks called 'a real big @#$%in' dropoff.'" He continued that everything in the game was sluggish.[2] Tim Tracy of GameSpot was complimentary of the graphics, saying the game carried "some fairly smooth and detailed textures and is a decent game to look at", but was critical of the gameplay particularly collision detection and the constantly scrolling play field which he found made it difficult to manoeuvre to pick up power-ups and dodge enemy attacks.[3]

Notes
  1. Three critics of Electronic Gaming Monthly gave the PlayStation 2 version each a score of 2/10.

References
  1. "3DO SHIPS ARMY MEN®: GREEN ROGUE™ FOR PLAYSTATION®2 COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM". The 3DO Company. March 20, 2001. Archived from the original on April 17, 2001. Retrieved July 18, 2022.
  2. Smith, David (March 20, 2001). "Army Men: Green Rogue (PS2)". IGN. Ziff Davis. Retrieved July 18, 2022.
  3. Tracy, Tim (April 2, 2001). "Army Men: Green Rogue Review (PS2)". GameSpot. Red Ventures. Archived from the original on June 9, 2001. Retrieved July 18, 2022.
  4. "Is Green Rogue the Worst Game Ever". Game Writer Central. 3 March 2023. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
  5. "Army Men: Green Rogue for PlayStation 2 Reviews". Metacritic. Red Ventures. Retrieved August 9, 2018.
  6. Thompson, Jon. "Army Men: Green Rogue (PS) - Review". AllGame. All Media Network. Archived from the original on November 15, 2014. Retrieved July 18, 2022.
  7. Thompson, Jon. "Army Men: Green Rogue (PS2) - Review". AllGame. All Media Network. Archived from the original on November 15, 2014. Retrieved July 18, 2022.
  8. Kujawa, Kraig; MacDonald, Mark; Sewart, Greg (June 2001). "Army Men: Green Rogue (PS2)" (PDF). Electronic Gaming Monthly. No. 143. Ziff Davis. p. 106. Retrieved July 18, 2022.
  9. "Army Men: Green Rogue (PS2)". Game Informer. No. 98. FuncoLand. June 2001.
  10. G-Wok (March 2001). "Army Men: Green Rogue Review (PS2)". GameRevolution. CraveOnline. Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Retrieved July 18, 2022.
  11. Romendil (May 11, 2001). "Test: Army Men : Omega Soldier (PS1)". Jeuxvideo.com (in French). Webedia. Archived from the original on February 21, 2014. Retrieved July 18, 2022.
  12. Jihem (April 26, 2001). "Test: Army Men : Omega Soldier (PS2)". Jeuxvideo.com (in French). Webedia. Archived from the original on March 29, 2014. Retrieved July 18, 2022.
  13. Chen, David (June 2001). "Army Men: Green Rogue (PS2)". NextGen. No. 78. Imagine Media. p. 81. Retrieved July 18, 2022.
  14. Rybicki, Joe (June 2001). "Army Men: Green Rogue (PS2)". Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine. No. 45. Ziff Davis. p. 97. Retrieved July 18, 2022.
  15. Tokoya (June 2001). "Army Men: Green Rogue (PS2)". PSM. No. 46. Imagine Media. p. 31. Retrieved July 18, 2022.
  16. 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 July 18, 2022.


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