Commandos 3 Men of Courage
It
can't be recommended over the PC version, let alone wholly recommended in its
own right, except to those looking for an extremely tough PS2 action strategy
game.
The
direct approach isn't always the best approach--this concept lies at the heart
of Commandos 3 just as it did with its predecessor, the innovative 1998
real-time tactical combat game that mixed elements of stealth, action, and even
puzzle-solving in a World War II setting. Spanish developer Pyro Studios'
visually stunning sequel takes the core gameplay of the original, adds some of
the features from the 1999 stand-alone expansion pack along with plenty of
great new ideas, and ultimately provides a highly challenging, sophisticated
experience that's even better than the first. But be warned--Commandos 3 can be
as intimidating as its premise makes it sound: You'll command a small group of
elite Allied operatives deep behind enemy lines to perform a series of
important clandestine missions. At every turn, your commandos will be avoiding
the patrols of German or Japanese forces. It can be a difficult game,
especially at first, but Commandos 3 truly evokes the intensity of the
harrowing depictions of World War II that you've probably seen in film or on
television.
Your
commandos will engage in multiple high-priority missions.
Actually,
the game clearly alludes to the movies that inspired it--even the manual admits
that the game has more in common with fictional accounts of the war than with
factual ones. If you're familiar with classic World War II movies such as The
Guns of Navarone, Bridge on the River Kwai, or even the more recent Saving
Private Ryan, then you'll easily catch the references to these films in the
game's various missions. As in these and other epic World War II movies, in
Commandos 3 you'll have to do such things as rescue Allied soldiers, sabotage
powerful sea vessels, assassinate key enemy officials, get your hands on
important documents, and much more. The objectives are plentiful and varied and
the game will take you to a wide variety of real-world settings, but the
overall number of missions in Commandos 3 seems small: There are only 10 main
missions in the game. You must play through them all sequentially, even though
they aren't necessarily related to one another. In fact, the relative length
and difficulty of each mission doesn't necessarily increase from one mission to
the next, either.
Make
no mistake, though--by any standards, all these missions are huge, and you'll
typically spend many hours trying to accomplish the laundry list of objectives
in each one. There's also good incentive to replay each mission, since a number
of smaller bonus levels can be unlocked if you thoroughly explore the main
missions. And the game's two higher difficulty settings noticeably affect the
way enemy guards react, requiring you to take different paths to success. But
before you can get into the main missions, you must first get through two
"tutorial" levels, which have to be the most difficult tutorials ever
put into a game. These smaller missions provide very little actual
tutorial--instead, they take a sink-or-swim approach by dropping you straight
into enemy territory, leaving you to learn the hard way about the intricacies
of the complex gameplay of Commandos 3. This can make the first hours of play
unnecessarily frustrating, so much so that some players may be quickly turned
off to the game. That's too bad, because Commandos 3 is well worth the effort
it takes to learn.
Each
mission area is rendered in exceptional detail.
The
colorful, memorable cast of characters at your disposal comes mostly from the
previous Commandos games and includes a powerful Green Beret; a deadly marine;
a spy capable of disguising himself as the enemy; a sapper, your demolitions
expert; a mechanic who can commandeer enemy vehicles; a master sniper; and even
a seductive secret agent. New additions to the roster include a fleet-footed
thief and an unlikely bull terrier whose barking can distract your foes. You'll
also join forces with Allied troops whom you can control in many of the
missions.
In
the original Commandos game, each character had a limited, very specific set of
skills--for example, only the Green Beret and the spy could actually move enemy
victims' bodies so that other guards wouldn't see them, which made these two
the key players in most missions. In Commandos 3, for the most part, each
character has a wider variety of skills and is much more versatile--for
example, most everyone can now move bodies out of sight. This gives you many
more strategic options during play and, for better or worse, eliminates much of
the puzzlelike feel of the original game's missions. The game's sole remaining
puzzle element lies in the fact that you can't choose which commandos to bring
into a mission and can't choose their starting equipment--you'll just have to
make do with what you get.
Commandos
3's multiplayer mode lets you attempt all the missions cooperatively, though
the host player has to have beaten them in single-player mode first. This
option lends even more replay value to a game that will take you many dozens of
hours to finish on your own--thus, the GameSpy Arcade program is provided to
let you easily find allies to play with.
Like
its predecessor, Commandos 3 is a distinctive game with a great design and a
lot of impressive features. Yet Commandos 3 is even better than the first--its
design is much more focused, the missions are more involved, and the expanded
options for your commandos are all excellent. As a result, the game will
certainly appeal to most anyone who likes a challenge for both the mind and the
reflexes. And what a challenge--you'll feel a real sense of reward and relief
after finishing each of the epic missions in Commandos 3.
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