Army Men: Green Rogue (PS2) - 1. Welcome 2 The Jungle
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- The Army Men games have a reputation for being amongst the worst that Playstation 2 has to offer. Green Rogue is no exception to this rule.
It is a shame I say this though as it is obvious what 3DO were going for: A modern take on Mercs, Ikari Warriors and (to a lessar extent) Total Carnage with updated 3D visuals to suit the hardware of the time. Sadly, the 3D visuals are exactly why Green Rogue falters. Where All three previously mentioned classics function perfectly on a technical level, Green Rogue falters even on the basics. It has a terrible frame-rate for one, but even aside from that, even worse looking visuals. It’s as plain as plain comes with basic looking greens and browns muddying the screen.
But does Army Men: Green Rogue play any better you might ask? Well, actually no, Green Rogue does not play well at all. I had already mentioned the performance problems, and these hamper the controls of this shooter tremendously. With the twin-stick design, it is hard to respond lightning fast to enemies firing at you when the frame-rate hovers in the lower twenties, and possibly even high teens in some circumstances. Your biggest enemy in Green Rogue is the camera. Green Rogue plays on-rails and the game’s perspective with gradually force you forward throughout its various levels. The feeling of being constantly on the move is irksome on its own, if only in that it is very easy to miss enemies because of this camera, or worse, miss mission critical power-ups, making the whole thing a lot tougher than it should be.
What can be most bothersome however is getting stuck in the walls while the camera plods on, or being forced onto a branching path, of which Green Rogue does little to help the player with as you attempt to dodge the various projectiles buzzing past your ears. It does not help either that the weapons themselves lack much punch, with enemies sponging a good chunk of your attacks, and thanks to some poor collision detection, it can feel nigh on impossible to hit some enemies on the later levels featured throughout this computer game.
Perhaps what I find most disconcerting is how Green Rogue handles boss fights. There is no attempt made by the game to help the player figure out the attack patterns of the five, bigger, bad guys darted sporadically in the campaign. Normally it becomes a battle of attrition until either you, or the boss itself, falls to their death. The final boss in particular is the most heinous example of this as you can barely see your avatar as a speckle lost between everything else 3DO decide to throw your way.
A few years ago I had made the naïve attempt to make a no-death playthrough of Army Men Green Rogue’s story, unfortunately this series was never completed. Having wanted to finally get it over and done with (having promised it on more than a few occasions to my viewers in the past) I present my new run of this in full.
A couple points first:
While this playthrough is largely death-free, I do concede that is impossible to complete the final level without dying. The reasons why has already specified, but to keep a long story short, the last boss is a cheap POS.
I played this run on Normal/Default settings. There is a hard mode but it truly is infuriating to play. There is a random nature to Green Rogue’s power-ups and ultimately I ended up becoming dependent on these because the game’s problems are exacerbated so much on this setting.
You folks are welcome to make your own run if you think you can do better, that is absolutely fine, but I have no desire to put myself (and my controllers) through that kind of struggle ever again.
As for everyone else, please do not play this game.
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I love how the green army are performing grossly unethical genome experiments on their own men, but the tan army are still the bad guys, because their commander has a foreign accent.
The premise of this game was awesome.
If you couldn’t beat this game you never picked up a console ever again
Oh god, this game. Despite the fact that years have passed since I've played and beaten it, I still somewhat remember it. Funny thing is, I actually kinda liked it, although, once I've beaten it, never played it again. I think I tolerated some of its horrible aspects only due to the fact that I was little. The controls weren't the worst, but definitely not the best. When I found out that you can actually aim up and crouch, things have gotten a bit easier. Still, there were moments where shooting at the enemies in some areas was particularly troublesome for no good reason. Easily the worst and most annoying thing in this game was how the powerups worked. My god, even back then I knew that getting screwed over simply because you accidentally grabbed a wrong weapon was fucking bullshit. I hated how in order for your weapons to be better you had to collect more of the same type, which meant that if you wanted to upgrade your bazooka for example, you'd have to deliberately wait for the pickup to become what you want, time it right to pick it up, all in the heat of the battle. It's not so bad in the first levels, but it's an infuriating nightmare in the later levels, ESPECIALLY ON THE LAST FEW. I wouldn't have made a big deal out of it, if upgrading weapons wasn't so crucial. I remember how I prefered to use assault rifle not only because it was easier hitting enemies with it, but because it was the easiest type to collect and upgrade, lol. Since the powerup always started with the rifle and then cycled through the rest, it was less of a chore to pick up, that is, if you instantly ran to it as soon as it appeared.
Damn, this is turning into some kind of essay, lmao, so I'll just say that the last levels fucking sucked and I'll stop here. Decent game, but very flawed.
For 2001, this is absolutely gold and I remember this too.
I should get this on my 24th birthday.
If I remember correctly, I remember there was a level called “tanks for nothing?” I think it was this game, i couldn’t beat the level for 6 months and my dad couldn’t do it either so one day he took the game out and broke it into little pieces and I was like fuck yeah ahah the nostalgia damn this was like almost 20 years ago 😭
Legend dad. You guys got farther than me. I could never even get past the first level. I just realized that I never played to upgrade the weapons tho so I think I would end up switching to the flamethrower and getting screwed.
@@minifiggalorestore1520 I gotta play this game again now that I’m grown ass adult now 😭
Nothing will ever beat the stupid decision they made in the intro to Army Men: Major Malfunction where they straight up KILL hawk
First game I ever beat.
I still have this game and my ps2 I'm gonna go play this game for little bit cause... nostalgia
no child porn no sex with minors no illegal drugs and no illegal firearms.
This game was too much reality about the horrors of war
the ones that have "you lose" scenes are the one but this is just show a complete slaughter
3:55-4:47 Helicopter dogfight
7:34 Been looking for the music of this level, but sadly cant find it without gameplay.
You still looking? I found a website with video game music and has music from this game too :)
I looked this game up clicked on os1 one was watching and wondering why i didnt remember anything past the starting cut then i realize that the ps1 and ps2 version are differnt.
one mile 90 minutes 40 minutes a card and key to get to school everyday on tuesday and thursday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i remember where i played it with my frend we failed everytime at the submarine in the lvl2
My brother and I didn’t know you could aim up lmao.
Fun Game! (SARCASM) :)
Cz you probably are lik 10 years old to understand the game
It was fun.
Smh I can’t remember which one I had PS1 or PS2 version of this. I can’t remember cause I used to have both systems around the same time and there are versions for both smh
1:19 Jim Cummings
Dude, he voices pretty much the entire game 😂
was the first game ive ever played lol
Flamethrower best
This game was good to play.
This game was trash
OK
Hmm…
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The guy who uploaded this: This game fuckin' sucks because I said so, and I just don't like it, therefore it's bad, and no one should ever play this.
Me: You think this game is so bad? You clearly haven't played Carmaggedon 64, or Superman 64, or Bubsy fucking 3D. And you consider Ikari Warriors (a very shitty Contra clone) better than this? Your opinion became invalidated the second you said that.
No, in all honesty, this game is not as shitty as the uploader will try to make you believe. It's a decent game that just gets a lot of flak, because no one wanted to be fair with it. Don't listen to this guy, and if you're smart, then you know this video deserves a hell of a lot of more dislikes for that description alone.
If you are telling me that wonky controls, bad frame-rates and glitchy code (including the camera) are the hallmarks of a quality experience then quite clearly we have different impressions on what makes a game good or bad.
With regards to being fair? I played through the entire thing, several times over. I avoided using cheats and even got someway through Hard Mode before I decided Green Rogue was not for me.
If you can stomach it, all the power to you, but be a little more mature if you want people to respect your opinion, because you quite clearly have limited respect for mine by the looks of things.
This game was boring as fuck.
@@RUclipsGuy825 It's like he's being pulled forward by an eternal tug of war rope yet somehow manages not to be run over by a tank from behind or ambushed. I am curious possibly at least for the imagination of it since it kind of does bring back nostalgia from seeing a demo of it on Sarge's Heroes 2, and that looked good at least the kind of cut-scenes it showed.