The Toy Box Adventure You Never Had | Toy Soldiers: Cold War Review

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;" align&equals;"center"><em>Toy Soldiers&colon; Cold War<&sol;em> is an Xbox live exclusive arcade game that combines a third person strategy game&comma; a shooter&comma; and a tower defense game centered around the fight against communism&period; Signal Studios has created an awesome experience that is pretty short&comma; but considering the fact it’s an Xbox live arcade game&comma; it’s a pretty average length with good gameplay and some replay value&period;        <strong>  <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Gameplay<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The game takes place in a variety of places around the world such as Korea&comma; Cuba&comma; Russia and even the United States&period; Some of the pros of the game are&semi; Toy soldiers is a very&comma; very fun game when it comes down to gameplay and the strategy isn’t too difficult for a beginner of the strategy game genre&period; Basically&comma; you can look at the terrain to get a clue of the types of enemies you will be facing&comma; such as a battleship where the majority of the enemies are paratroopers or planes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Another one of the positives are the boss fights which take place about every three levels or so&period; Every boss has three stages and a final stage&period; These bosses do a good job of looking tough and taking up half the screen&comma; but a good combination of anti- air and anti-tank turrets will whittle down the health quickly&period; The boss fights seem to add difficulty&comma; but they are generally pretty easy to defeat—except the final boss who is a bit tougher&period; These break up the gameplay and add diversity which strengthens the experience&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Throughout the game&comma; you earn upgrades to your turrets that make them stronger which helps considering the game scales in difficulty&period; This adds to the replay value as I went back to the earlier levels to get a better rating once I had all my upgrades&period;  I went through the game twice just because the game was that fun&comma; but it ends after that&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><span style&equals;"text-decoration&colon; underline&semi;"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;toy-box-adventure&sol;toy-soldiers-turret&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-14760"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14760" title&equals;"toy soldiers turret" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;05&sol;06203141&sol;toy-soldiers-turret&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"168" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;span>Entertainment<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Toy Soldiers&colon; Cold War<&sol;em> is a very entertaining game that manages to achieve its goal of being fun—albeit short lived&period; This may be fun for some&comma; but others who are penny pinching may find it a better idea to look elsewhere for a better dollar-to-game ratio&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Visual&sol;Audio<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The visual style of <em>Toy Soldiers&colon; Cold War<&sol;em> is one of my favorites on the Xbox live arcade&period; The plastic figures makes me think of my childhood&period; Nothing is as much fun as plowing into a group of communist toy soldiers with a machine gun—just like I imagined as a child&period; The game does a very good job of creating a unique art style that is beautiful and realistic&comma; while maintaining a cartoonish style that provides nostalgia&period; The audio is pretty good but seriously&comma; If I have to hear &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This One’s for Jimmy&excl;” one more time&comma; I’m going to find someone on the street named Jimmy and murder him&period; The obvious Rambo tribute was nice&comma; but the repetitive audio spoiled it to the point that sometimes I didn&&num;8217&semi;t want to use the most fun and destructive of the rewards&period; However&comma; the military radio transmissions coming in every now and again during the battle are nice and add to the experience&period; The sound of explosions and machine gun fire are amazing and make you want to play even more&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><span style&equals;"text-decoration&colon; underline&semi;"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;toy-box-adventure&sol;toy-soldiers-rambo&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-14759"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14759" title&equals;"Toy soldiers rambo" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;05&sol;06203145&sol;Toy-soldiers-rambo&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"168" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;span>Final Thoughts<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Toy Soldiers is a very fun&comma; yet bite sized adventure that you most likely won’t be going back to after you have your fun with it&period; Priced at fifteen dollars&comma; it’s pretty steep for the amount of game that you get&period; However&comma; I would recommend this game to any friends that have some cash to spend as it is very approachable&period; The art style is great&comma; and addicting gameplay gives the game very high marks&comma; but in some parts the overall audio lacks &lpar;Rambo&rpar;—yes&comma; it is that annoying&period; The final line is that Toy Soldiers is a pretty good game that definitely deserves a look if you have some cash to spend&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;