This gives Toy Soldiers a pleasantly frantic pace as you jump from your long-range howitzer to the front-line machine gun and then over to your anti-aircraft cannon to deal with each threat thrown. The other weapons emplacements will fire automatically, but they're at their deadliest if you take them over yourself. The wrinkle is that you have the option of taking control of each your guns and firing it from a third-person turret view, which I was able to use to rack up extremely satisfying score multipliers. I might be happy to just to watch Toy Soldiers run and marvel at the detail and style, but as it happens there's also a very good tower-defense game in there. ![]() Which is important, considering that you'll see these little guys getting scythed down by machine guns, blasted apart by long-range artillery, gassed to death, and burned to cinders with flamethrowers. It's at once realistic looking, to the point where it seems more a game about World War I than about toys, but then you also have the characters' exaggerated proportions and almost metallic surfaces to keep the mood lighthearted. ![]() ![]() The soldiers march forward like little automata, exploding into springs and gears when they die, and wind-up tanks crawl over the mud and shell holes, and from time to time you'll catch glimpses in the "sky" of posters and maps stuck on bedroom walls, and other toys sitting on shelves nearby. Jerry's about to get an early introduction to the concept of the hydrogen bomb.
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