Small Soldiers: Squad Commander

Big Box cover art (US release)

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“All out warfare in a battle to save your neighborhood!” ―US release tagline

Small Soldiers: Squad Commander is a licensed, 2D, top-down RTS for Microsoft Windows, developed by DreamWorks Interactive and published by Hasbro Interactive in 1998.

The game does not follow the plot of Small Soldiers, instead featuring a unique story in the fictional town of New Bedford. While this should imply that these are different toys from the ones that appear in the film, Troglokhan (Freakenstein) has been destroyed and repaired identically to his film counterpart. There are two unique campaigns to play through; Gorgonites and Commando Elite, each with their own units and objective-driven levels, played in order as you make your way across a small town map.

Story

The Gorgonites and the Commando Elite awake in a large room on a chest. Chip Hazard criticizes Archer as weak and cowardly, pulls Archer's right arm off, and finally assaults him by using Archer's own right arm, right after Archer informs wisely to Chip Hazard and pushes away from him with the right arm. Archer steals it away and bows before Chip Hazard, jabbing the severed right arm toward Chip Hazard's chest, and hitting Chip Hazard's head with the right arm, thus plugging the right arm back into his right shoulder. After the incident both are still arguing but they suddenly both charge at each other, and crash; thus, the player must choose their campaign squad.

Commando Elite Campaign

The main campaign for both the Gorgonites and the Commando Elite, is trying to eliminate each other, until they reach the main Small Soldiers Industry, while they are destroying the town itself.

Gorgonite Campaign

The Commando Elite's plan is to exterminate the isolated Gorgonite scum: if the outcome is victory, the Commando Elite plan to exterminate Washington D.C., and build Commando Elite industries for their moment of glory in a new evil militarism planet.

The Gorgonites' plan is the opposite: defend, cherish freedom, and conservate a melting pot of ecosystems. If the outcome is victory, the Gorgonites plan to change the Commando Elite from changing their micro-chips and uniforms into dainties and blouses from the Gwendy doll chips, thus defending the planet and a melting pot of new wild animals in New Bedford.^{[citation needed]}

Gameplay

Players control a variety of purchasable units in both campaigns, with multiples allowed of each unit. The mission scenarios are new to the game but use the characters and environments from the film.^{[citation needed]} Fun and intricate puzzles are layered within each mission, requiring players to use their wits and problem-solving skills under constant enemy fire and demolition.

Choosing your Alliance

Combat

The game features upgradable weapons, mines, bonus artillery, cloning, booby-traps, power gadgets, and dynamic music.^{[citation needed]}

Both factions progress through five levels, each with up to three objectives to fulfil. These locations include a suburban house, a general goods store, and a Globotech Industries factory.

Gorgonite Campaign

• Home Invasion
• A Pillaged Village
• Captured!
• Power Corrupts
• New and Improved

Commando Elite Campaign

• Uninvited Guests
• Neighborhood Assault
• U-Cough Countdown
• Wired!
• The Demolition Mission

Trivia

• While the US release of the game had the tagline "All out warfare in a battle to save your neighborhood!", the UK release's tagline was simply "Build & Battle".
• Archer's texture files for his main body loop because on his back his necklace repeats itself even having the circle part of it.^{[citation needed]}
• Scratch-It doesn't appear in this game, same for Globotech Design Labs.
• Tommy Lee Jones (Chip Hazard) is the only original voice actor from the film to reprise his role.
• The Commando Elite are the only team to have their belt buckles, the Gorgonites however don't as texture space was very short during that time.^{[citation needed]}
• Ocula's attack is a green slime like projectile which changes colors with power ups; yellow for level 1 and pinkish red for level 2.

Gallery

See also: International Releases

Big Box cover art
(UK release)

Jewel case inlay
(US release)

In-game title card

Media

Squad Commander Commando Elite campaign longplay via jakeynoobs on YouTube

Squad Commander Gorgonite campaign longplay via jakeynoobs on YouTube

External links

Aggregates	Reviews
Squad Commander on Giant Bomb Squad Commander on IMDb Squad Commander on Metacritic
Others
Squad Commander on The Cutting Room Floor