History VideoGame / TeamBuddies

''Team Buddies'' is a 2000 video game made for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation by Creator/{{Psygnosis}}, a top down shooter with light RTS elements. The main gameplay element is the collecting, stacking, and destroying of crates. Each team starts out at its base, has to run to the crate drop area, pick up a crate, run back and deposit it on its 2×2×2 stacking pad. Rinse, lather, and repeat. Different weapons, vehicles and team members are created through differing combinations of crates on different levels. For example, in the first world, you get your basic soldier (Infantry) and Commando.

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* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: A Super Buddy's punch attack spins enemies around for a second, leaving them helpless and likely to get spun again by another punch.

* SoulPower: Ghost Mode, once its unlocked. After dying in a Deathmatch, you become a ghost. In order to become a regular buddy again, you have to touch the boots of one that just recently died.

%%* NintendoHard: Suffers a lot of this especially after one third of the game.

* VideoGameFlight: Super Super Buddies Franchise/({{Superman}}-inspired Buddies after being built with a Super Crate.) can fly indefinitely. Several aerial vehicles as well.

* EnergyWeapon: Super Buddies, being based on {{Superman}}, have these as their ranged attack. Because of this, they can't pick up weapons or use vehicles.

* InstantWinCondition

* [[NintendoHard Playstation Hard]]: Suffers a lot of this especially after one third of the game.

* SlippySlideyIceWorld: World 5: Chilling Fields.

* TimedMission: Several of them.
** SongsInTheKeyOfPanic: A warning theme plays in the last 15 seconds of any TimedMission.
* VideoGameFlight: Super Super Buddies ({{Superman}}-inspired Buddies after being built with a Super Crate.) can fly indefinitely. Several aerial vehicles as well.

* WrapAround: The tunnels at the edge of the map.

* ClusterFBomb: There is a tone of foul language in the game, even for PlayStation standards. Your teammates will say lots of colourful terms if you screw up or are just doing something normal:

* ClusterFBomb: Your teammates, especially in the European version.

* BigBad: [[spoiler: The Baddies. They are responsible for driving the Buddies to kill each other in order to carnage for a TV show. The end of this would involve destroying the Buddies' world.]]

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* ClusterFBomb: Especially so in the European version. It's GettingCrapPastTheRadar since the game isn't rated M or equivalent due to BloodlessCarnage and lack of in game chatter subtitle.
-->When accidentally shooting your own buddies: "''Are you fuckin' mental?!''"
-->When commanding buddies to build a weapon: "''Where's yer fuckin' tool?''"

* FrickinLaserBeams: Super Buddies, being based on {{Superman}}, have these as their ranged attack. Because of this, they can't pick up weapons or use vehicles.

* VirtualPaperDoll: Unlockable skins in Multiplayer. These include making all of the Buddies [[GoofyPrintUnderwear run around in their undies]], [[ZombieApocalypse make them undead zombies]], put them in [[TheMenInBlack black suits]] (Stealth Buddies even get CoolShades with them), or [[spoiler:turn them all into Baddies]].

* ShoutOut: The Cyborg Buddy introduction is a remake of the [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay "I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle" scene]] except it's only showing the outside of the saloon and [[spoiler: the bike is a bicycle]].

* ShootTheMedicFirst: As Medic Buddies have RegeneratingHealth, especially if they were built with a Super Crate, it's imperative to kill them first and kill them fast. Unusually for this trope, they are unable to heal their teammates, but that can still help important [=NPC=]s

* RewardingVandalism: Trees, animals, structures, you name it. If it can move, it can die.

* ShootTheMedicFirst: As Medic Buddies have RegeneratingHealth, especially if they were build with a Super Crate, it's imperative to kill them first and kill them fast.

->''You looking at me? I'll smash yer face in!''
-->-- random buddy.