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Small Soldiers: Squad Commander

An RTS game based on the Movie Small Soldiers (1998).

31 December 1998

Small Soldiers: Squad Commander is a real time strategy (rts) developed by Dreamworks Interactive, released 31 December 1998 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Small Soldiers: Squad Commander is

Small Soldiers: Squad Commander is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Dreamworks Interactive and released in 1998. It was published by Hasbro Interactive. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

All out warfare in a battle to save your neighborhood! The game differs from the film and unlike the Small Soldiers (PS1) version the plot and theme were completely changed. The film was set in the real world while the game was set in a fictional "3-D cartoon-like" reality-city called, "New Bedford". The Commando Elite and the Gorgonites 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…
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, science fiction and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Small Soldiers series

Small Soldiers: Squad Commander is the third of 7 entries we hold in the Small Soldiers series. The next entry was Small Soldiers: Globotech Design Lab in 1998.

See all 7 Small Soldiers games in release order →

What it launched against

Small Soldiers: Squad Commander launched on 31 December 1998, within three weeks of Suikoden II, Super Smash Bros., Crazy Taxi (1999) and Mario Party.

Released around the same time: Suikoden II, Super Smash Bros., Crazy Taxi (1999), Mario Party.

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When did Small Soldiers: Squad Commander come out?
Small Soldiers: Squad Commander was released on 31 December 1998 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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