[PC] Commandos Collection $2.59 at Humble Bundle

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payton on 24/10/2014 - 22:46 humblebundle.com (302 clicks)
Last edited 25/10/2014 - 02:16 by 1 other user

Offer will expire early tomorrow morning, 2AM Eastern Standard Time. Pretty good price.
You get Commandos 1 and its expansion plus Commandos 2 and 3.

According to gog.com, Commandos 2 and 3 works on Win7 (no mention of 8)
Commandos 1+exp stated to work on Win8.

There are workarounds and widescreen fixes mentioned in previous ozbargain posts, you may want to consult those first.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/117690
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/134965
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/142200
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/161999

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  payton on 24/10/2014 - 22:50

  Once you complete the game, don't forget to use the 'unlimited grenade' cheat (trainer) for the Sapper. Its the bomb.

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  gabos on 25/10/2014 - 01:55

  Man these games used to be excellent. I wonder how well theyve aged.

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    DNAngel on 25/10/2014 - 08:46

    Commandos 2 is still an excellent game though very challenging (I've played it recently). I haven't played the other Commandos games yet (1 & 3).

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    Gnostikos on 25/10/2014 - 14:12

    +1

    It's not a case of them aging badly, but more so modern games ruining gamer's palettes.

    Slow, squad-based, stealth tactics games are far and few between these days. The first game, Behind Enemy Lines, is one that requires several attempts per mission and will probably feel incredibly punishing if you're used to the dumb-downed strategy games of today.

    A relevant analogy might be recent Hitman titles; you can think of the Commandos games as a squad-based Hitman game with an isometric perspective. If you're at all partial to Hitman than you might be halfway interested in these games.

    Visually even the first Commandos game could hardly be called an eyesore. The pre-rendered environments (especially the final Castle level) are incredibly intricate and detailed, not to mention the map sizes are huge.

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  payton on 25/10/2014 - 15:44

  +1

  especially the final Castle level

  Oh man when I beat that level I was like …
  There was supposedly a player who could do the final mission like absolute clockwork, his playthru was on Youtube before, not sure if that was totally legit or did he cheat in some way. It was flawless, no mistake whatsoever.

  The first game, Behind Enemy Lines, is one that requires several attempts per mission and will probably feel incredibly punishing

  Beyond Call of Duty was wayyy more punishing.
  It was frustrating at times but in a good way, because any failure was due to my own fault, the game was not cheating me in any way, its just that I got careless or lazy.

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    Gnostikos on 25/10/2014 - 16:49

    Oh man when I beat that level I was like …

    There was supposedly a player who could do the final mission like absolute clockwork, his playthru was on Youtube before, not sure if that was totally legit or did he cheat in some way. It was flawless, no mistake whatsoever.

    I may have seen that, because I did watch a good number of playthroughs for that level as I don't remember ever completing it back in 1999.

    My favourite was the one with the Bismarck (Mission 13) and the one where you start on the raft and have to snipe a clear landing area on that dock/port.

    The level design was definitely a strong point; so many memorable levels (the cable-car/ski lift one with the gyrocopter escape at the end, the rooftop escape one in North Africa, and assassinating the SS leader in the French village).

    A lot of them were inspired by old WW2 movies like Where Eagles Dare, The Dirty Dozen and Bridge on the River Kwai.

    Beyond Call of Duty was wayyy more punishing.
    It was frustrating at times but in a good way, because any failure was due to my own fault, the game was not cheating me in any way, its just that I got careless or lazy.

    You can Rambo a good number of them, particularly if you get into one of those light tanks or just man a fixed gun and attract everyone into your line of fire, but it doesn't feel right unless there's a mountainside of corpses behind each boulder and alleyway on the map.