To pump the audio, actor Tommy Lee Jones re-ups as Chip Hazard's voice and a weird Gorgonite choir sings mesmerizing background vocals. In addition, Commandos such as Butch Meathook and Chip Hazard often cop mean grins just like their big-screen counterparts. It looks like Small Soldiers plans a major attitude assault with its graphics and sounds: At the get-go, the Commandos launch a sneak assault on the DreamWorks logo, zrapping the Tom Sawyer-like kid who's fishing on the crescent moon. There's a sniper view, too, but Archer's best move was strafing, which locked his weapons on target as he ran. Although the controls were a mite skittish, the Dual Shock joystick generally kept Archer on track, and the recoil during automatic gunfire was awesome.

In the preview version of Small Soldiers, the blistering shoot-em-up action was fast and fierce, but the chase-view cam held steady as the firefight spread out 360 degrees. You'll also summon other characters from the flick, such as Punchit and Ocula, who will fight for you courageously on autopilot. In the eight split-screen dual-player levels, you'll take on Commando leader, Chip Hazard, mano-a-mano.

You play as the Gorgonite leader, Archer, who must zap the baddies across 15 run-n-gun single-player levels.

Small Soldiers will turn the Commando and the Gorgonite action-tigure characters from the movie of the same name into two distinct races of beings, with the Commandos becoming fascistic warmongers. This ain't like the movie! Small Soldiers for the PlayStation should be a finger-burning firefight, with massive firepower the order of the day.

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