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Developer: Psygnosis
Platform: PSX
Release: Sept 18, 2000.
Genre: RTS + RPG?
Disks: 1 (338Mb)
Everything was fun and parties in Buddie land. But one day, for the sake of the existence of the game, crates started falling from the sky. This crates were filled with all kind of weaponry: from small guns to armored tanks.
Hell broke loose and buddies segregated according to color, with the purpose of killing each other D:!!!!
The game works as some sort of worms game, combined with some elements of real strategy. You start with one buddy and crates start falling from the sky. In your starting zone there's a grid pad. With our buddy we can carry the crates to our starting zone to create new weapons, vehicles or new buddies!
For example, if we stack 2 crates one of top of each other and break them a new buddy will appear. We can swap between buddies to do different tasks. We could also place one crate alone to get a gun, 2 crates horizontally to get an granades, 4 crates horizontally for a Bazooka, and so on.
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The crates fall in neutral areas and by building up buddies and weapons we try to kill our enemy.
Occasionally some rare creates drop. If we add those crates to our experiments in the pad, we can get enhanced weapons, soldiers or vehicles.
We win a scenario by capturing key points in a map. These points can be trees, hills or anything. Each captured point gives a number of points every 5 seconds. We win by reaching a certain amount of points or by having more points when the clock reaches 0.
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In the "Story" mode, we take control over different color teams. Each team represents a nationality. For example: purple (I think) buddies talk in a language resembling Japanese (and you can create ninja buddies!), Blue are English and so on. Depending on the match up we can get funny dialogs resembling conflicts between countries or wars.
If you are going to play this game I strongly recommend getting the European version as the US one suffered from heavy censorship in the dialog which is a very fun part of the game. I also thing it goes some scenes removes, but I don't remember for sure.
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There's different modes, like capture the flag, deathmatch, etc which is very fun if you can play with other people.
The number of crate combination is pretty big too, which adds more fun. The music is fitting, the graphics are cartoonish and cute.
Yay
- Game design and dialogues.
- Addictive.
- Simple but versatile.
Nay
- It can turn repetitive if you play alone after finishing the story mode.
Poll: You should play this game...
(Vote): right now!
(Vote): only if you like the genre.
(Vote): never.
