Soldier Boyz (video game)

Soldier Boyz is a 1997 video game by Hypnotix and DreamCatcher Interactive for Microsoft Windows 95.

Soldier Boyz (video game)
Developer(s)Hypnotix
Publisher(s)DreamCatcher Interactive; MCPA Interactive; Olympic ROM World
Director(s)Jed Weintrob
Darren Aronofsky
Producer(s)Brad Krevoy
Steve Stabler
Jed Weintrob
Designer(s)Gregory Aranaga
Jed Weintrob
Andrew Osborne
Darren Aronofsky
Jeannette Draper
Programmer(s)Tom Kirchner
John Moschetto
Stephen Hadley
Artist(s)Mike Taramykin
Writer(s)Andrew Osborne
Platform(s)PC
Release1997
Genre(s)First-person shooter
full motion video 

Gameplay

The game was an adaptation of the film Soldier Boyz and was a rail shooter that utilized full-motion video to retell the story of the movie. There are some notable changes from the original story, but the end goal is much the same. The game has three difficulty settings: Chump, Punk, and Bad Ass.

Reception

The Soldier Boyz game received a score of 0 out of 5 from Computer Games Strategy Plus, who called it, "one of the worst games to ship in the last few years, one that has no redeeming qualities," and said: "no current shooter is nearly as bad as this game."[1]

A May 2000 review from GameSpot called the game "unsatisfying", saying "It doesn't look good; it doesn't play good" and giving it a 3.8/10. The review criticized the characters as unrelatable, the crosshairs as laggy, and the jungle scenes as "a blurry mass of pixels". The review concluded: "the bottom line is that if you're looking for gory movie violence, you're better off renting a John Woo flick than shelling out money for the predictable gameplay, muddy control, and cliched plot of Soldier Boyz."[2]

Reviews
  • "Soldier Boyz". PC Gamer. Vol. 4 no. 9. September 1997.

References
  1. Bauman, Steve (November 1997). "Soldier Boyz". Computer Games Strategy Plus. No. 84. p. 184. Archived from the original on March 20, 2005.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. Poole, Stephen (May 2, 2000). "Soldier Boyz Review". GameSpot. Archived from the original on June 10, 2019. Retrieved December 5, 2020.
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