Good news, or best news?
Reaction 1: New Commandos!
Reaction 2: Wait, no longer WW2?
Final reaction: Confused, somewhere between yay and meh.
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Desperados was fun as well, despite the settings, and on the missions where you could actually stealth and didn't have to turn it into a shootout. I am a little unsure with the lack of weapons to properly attract attention as well, but the gameplay vids so far remind me something of a hybrid between Commandos 2 and Desperados.
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Only ever played the first Commandos, and I wasn't very good at it, hehe. Wasn't there also some Robin Hood game similar to Commandos/Desperados?
I still have a faint memory of controlling a vehicle in Commandos and the driver saying "ookie-dookie" when you click to go somewhere.
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Hmm i think Star Trek Away Team was really close to those titles as well ;)
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... and it was horribly broken as far as I remember. Enemies seeing/rushing you despite your guys not being in their vision cone, clunky controls, dumb AI and in one mission was even a level breaking bug etc... but it was fun nonetheless ;). Too bad they never polished and re-released it on something like GOG.
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Yeah, I also have those small sentences still in my mind! :) "It's risky, but..."
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The driver of the Grinder vehicle in RA3 says the same thing and more :)
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Commandos series was developed by Pyro studios (Spanish, not portuguese). Im a fan of this saga too, thx for the info.
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The developers of Commandos were spanish not portuguese, from Pyro Studios. I knew some of the 3D designers back in the 2000s.
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This is awesome, when I clicked the Steam link. I noticed it was already on my wishlist but that'll simply be the setting and style that did that for me. Had no idea it was some of the guys behind the Commandos series (one of my all time favourites before they ruined it with that generic FPS game).
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I'm still looking for a copy of the FPS on PS2, where I also have the second game :P
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It's a terrible game but I own it on both Steam and the PS2 for collection purposes.
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It sure was: http://steamcommunity.com/app/6820/
Got removed a while back though.
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I'm a bit disappointed to be honest that it isn't in a WW2 setting, I still get back to playing Commandos 2: Men of Courage every few months as it was for me one of my favourites but I liked them all overall.
I just looked at it on steam and it looks interesting, so I will keep an eye on it.
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There's a demo on the Steam page for anyone that wants to try it for themselves. I'm currently downloading it. :)
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had it in WL already, hope they don't screw it up ;p
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You know what was similar to Commandos? Fallout: Tactics when played in real time on high difficulty settings. There were missions you couldn't afford open conflict, these made me think of Commandos whenever I played them.
Commandos was actually one of the first games I played when we got a PC in the house about 1998... Memories. Don't have original CD anymore, but I grabbed another copy of Behind Enemy Lines few years ago for 1€ in a supermarket. For nostalgia's sake! :D
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FO:T had the problem of not really knowing what it wanted to be. I can agree that some of its elements were similar to the Commandos games, even if I found the most effective play style to just sneak to an elevated/protected position and just snipe everyone. I enjoyed it, but of all the PC Fallouts, it is probably the blandest, even with FO3/4 around.
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Well, FO:T called Tactics for reason, and it was basically only tactical missions so it knows what it wants to be. Problem is that ppl expected it to be more rpg.
P.S. My english is kinda robotic, lol.
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I agree, it was the blandest Fallout, but I liked the combat. It's like hmm... Baldur's Gate compared to Icewind Dale. I played BG for story and giggles. In ID I was interested in combat only. Same with FO:T in comparison to other Fallout games. Combat. It was fun!
I'll tell you something. Don't repeat it... But compared to Wasteland 2, FO:T has much better combat, with many more tactical solutions, trapping doors, placing mines, sneaking. I played some W2, 20 or 30 hours. Never finished it, got too bored with it. FO:T has a lousy story, but I finished it multiple times. Combat is that fun.
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Wasteland 2's base version seems a little barebones, true. The DC edition looks to be better though, by adding back traits and perks (under a different name), plus maybe it also has vehicles?
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I did play only the DC version of Wasteland 2. I liked character development, and gun improvements. Great things. As for vehicles... Idk about W2, but yeah FO:T had vehicles. And you could fight from inside them. Good times.
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even with FO3
YOU TAKE THAT BACK, HERETIC!
jk I usually see two groups of people, ones whose first game was FO3 and others who started with FO1/2/NV. I actually enjoyed FO3 quite a lot, and I don't think it as a bad FO game, but usually it's a reaction of "Yeah FO3 is a good game, but it's not a good FO game"
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Yeah FO3 is a good game, but it's not a good FO game
Which is true. It is a great theme park dungeon crawler and I put several hundreds of hours into exploring it again and again (Steam only shows like 200, because using mods makes the game not register play time). But it has little to nothing to do with Fallout besides the title.
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Same here, Tactics was a realy hard but enjoyable game even if I didn't play like a tactical genius, the combat was gritty and fun, never finished it, I screwed myself over by not realising that the power gums were temporary addiction inflicting drugs :{ .... Glad your childhood of Commandos was so much better than mine though.
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Oh yeah, addictions are something I always hate in Fallout games. I never get addicted to things. Ever. I know there are viable builds and ways to play Fallout games since FO1. Junkie characters have potential, but for me it was always too much fuss. For example I play Fallout 2 since 1999, finished it tens of times, literally tens... I've used each drug in game maybe once. It was different when I played FOnline two years ago, then I was full junkie, but that's because almost everyone else was using chems to get the edge in battle. Had to play by their rules, so I didn't end up losing gear.
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I've got it wishlisted already, really looking forward to it cos Commandos didn't work properly on my computer :/
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Big Commandos fan here, spent my childhood playing those awesome games. I've had Shadow Tactics on my wishlist since June or something, close to pretty much when it was first announced. I'm super excited about it (not the story but the gameplay).
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Cool, thanks for the heads-up marked it on my watchlist.
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missing the coop tag on the store page, commandos coop was the bomb :D
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I just bought on steam summer sale Commandos pack where was all games excluding the last one which was shooter! Good the spirtual successor is at least there!
Gonna play again though Robin Hood and Commandos, still don't have Desperados on my steam. :(
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Wishlisted and waiting for some reviews ^^ I'm kind of surprised that Arnold didn't visit this thread already although he wasn't star in that game ;<.
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Today on SG I have been involved in a Baldurs Gate thread and now a Commando's thread, I feel like I'm missing school.
ANYTHING involving Commando's and Baldurs Gate is great. Thanks for letting me know about this!
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Already have it on my wishlist. I remember Commandos to be one of the hardest games of my childhood, but with that particular sense of accomplishment, when you finally beat one of the levels ;>. What I didn't know was, that someone made a Robin Hood one, thanks. Shouldn't be too hard for me to pick up a copy with it being bundled 3745 times already.
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Be careful with the Robin Hood game. After someone mentioned, I recalled that I have it, and even the GOG version is problematic to run on modern (XP and onwards) systems. There is a fix, but it is still finnicky.
(I should probably play through it at some point though.)
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Thanks for the warning. Still have a potato laptop running 98 for these cases ;>.
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Oh my god, it looks EXACTLY like the old Commando games and i love it! But..but...it's...medieval Japan?! Ugh...no offense but I realy, realy dont like that theme....swords and bows instead of knives, guns, drugs, vehicles, swimming? Ugh, no thanks, don't love the theme so I wont get it, even if I could afford it...but thanks for telling us, I'm glad to hear old developers reunite to bring somewhat classic games back, it's a awesome thing. Still waiting for sequel's for so many old games that the developers have to get back toghether for.
P.S. I never finished finished the first Commandos and its the only one I played and I played it REALY bare bone saddly as it was too hard, reason why I'm connected to it is when I was a wee child, I was at my mom's school in a computer class, some guy was playing it, I was watching closely, he went to toilet and told me to keep firing a pistol on a dead german soldier incase he wasnt dead i guess, I obeyed and..I liked it I guess :) otherwise I watched as a teenager my cousin play it untill the dam, we never got further, damn that bunker. Oh and saw some late scenes of a different cousin playing it, he had a tank, a battlefield of corpses and he was invincible. Nyeah.
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The dam mission is a fairly early one. You just need to use the diver to cross the river, kill one guard south, then transport everyone back and work your way up. The bunker is then destroyed with bombs using the sapper.
Yeah, I played the games enough times to pretty much know much of the walkthrough still. ^.^
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That's some amazing knowledge. We were struggling to get past patrols above and it was impossible to get past the bunker, I don't think we tried crossing the river with the diver, I dont think we realised we had a diver or if he had scuba gear if that's needed to swim or just submerge, I dont remember fully, we just didn't think or see a way to advance but needles to say.... We weren't and still aren't smart, I'm glad you got trough atleast =(
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I loved the commando games. And also played the Western one. Didn't know about Robin Hood, but I'll definitely look forward to this new game :D
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i was excited to get the commandos games with indie gala 6 but haven't played them yet. loved legend of sherwood when it came out, so if commandos is like that i should bump it up on my to-play schedule!
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Desperados was one of the first games i really loved man, didn't like commandos as much but it's great they are bringing the playstyle back!
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omg one of my favourite games while in high school :D
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The Commandos series is still remembered by many—or at least those old enough to remember it—as one of the best tactical stealth/action games of the late 90s/early 2000s. Sadly, its gameplay wasn't really used in many other titles; only one Western themed game was ever made, called Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive (which had a sequel, but we don't talk about it), plus one medieval, using the Robin Hood mythos, called The Legend of Sherwood.
Looks like some of the old Iberian developers went to Germany and want to bring this back, now with a new setting: instead of WWII, we go to feudal Japan in Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, which will be released on Steam and GOG early December (St. Nicholas Day, to be exact, for those who celebrate it).
Personally, based on gameplay so far, it seems to be very close to Commandos 2: Men of Courage, which wasn't really my favourite one of the series (IMO it was way too easy with little to no challenge, but it had astonishing level design). Since I cannot afford games at full price, I can wait and see the reviews as well, but I have high hopes for it. The Commandos concept should not disappear from gaming only because its play style is almost completely incompatible with any controller.
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