We'd love to see a proper ground-up remake of these classic games or even a brand new entry in the series, but, as far as this HD Remaster goes, it's a classic that's seen better days and one that deserved – and badly needed – a little more TLC before being delivered to a modern audience. The game sees players taking control of a squad of commandos, along with various allied units, as they sneak behind enemy lines to accomplish various missions. There's no doubting that, underneath all the problems, Commandos 2 - HD Remaster is a solid game, a brilliant one even, with ten huge levels that will test even the most experienced and patient of real-time tactical fans – and this is a genre that's sorely underserved on Nintendo Switch – but, in an age of Shadow Tactics, Desperados and the recent Partisans 1941, it feels like a supremely dated adventure.
#COMMANDOS 2 WALKTHROUGHS PC#
Het jaar is 2021: Welkom op de PC Games Walkthroughs site:. Today while I was looking around in Steam I found Commandos 2 HD Remaster a game that was getting quite a. From 2017 Dick Leeuw has joined me as a co-walkthrough writer and his walkthroughs, and his English translations of some of my Dutch walkthroughs, are also here on the site. It all just feels a bit disappointing and janky for a port which should really be delivering an age-old classic into our hands with crisp, clean controls – why on earth haven't they made use of the touchscreen? – and minimal loading times. Walkthroughs for Commandos 2: Men of Courage. All of this is made worse by some of the very old-school design choices of this nearly twenty-year-old adventure, with no waypoints or assistance provided in order to clue you into where you should be going next, meaning you'll spend a lot of time panning the shoddy camera around looking for clues.įor such an old game that hasn't been hugely overhauled, there's also quite a surprising amount of slowdown going on, with the action and camera feeling as though they're being dragged through mud at points – especially in docked mode – and even the loading times are bizarrely lengthy, taking a good long while to start a level and a frustrating amount of time to restart when you quick load or die you really will spend a long time looking at static loading screens in this one. Walkthrough: -SECURING THE ELEPHANT CAGE- Tiny should first of all take out the two soldiers near the commandos starting position then hide the body beneath the cliff to the north. The camera controls too – which force you to hold in the right shoulder button and using the D-Pad to then move your viewing angle or zoom in and out incrementally – are unintuitive, and the default viewpoint is far too restrictive, meaning you need to constantly scroll around and bring up your game map in order to keep an eye on where enemies are at. Even the game's opening training missions saw us succumb to the enemy on numerous occasions due to an inability on our part to reliably climb up a pole, shimmy across wires, or just shoot straight at a small number of guards without making a right pig's ear of things. It feels buggy and unexacting in even the most simple of interactions, and it makes levels which are already rather tortuously tough, a proper pain to put up with.