That said, the game begins with an introductory mission that takes you through some of the many elements and mechanics. Not only is the graphical quality improved, but players can rotate the camera around to examine the environment in impressive detail. Anyway, the Unity 3D engine was used for this remaster, a first for the Commandos series. Honestly, I don’t remember much about the original experience in terms of controls or UI, but I don’t recall having any major gripes. Yippee Entertainment have set out to rework the controls of Commandos 2 (though no gamepad support yet, and understandably there might not be in the future), and also have updated the UI and offer a nice intro tutorial mission. Afterall, trying to brush these things under the rug doesn’t make them any less a fact of history, and removing them takes away some of the sense of historical immersion and atmosphere the game used to have when it was first released nearly eighteen years ago.Īll that aside, what you have underneath these two bigger issues is still a gem of a game. The game touts authentic WWII scenarios, but goes through a lot of trouble to avoid historical details. The decision to censor these images out of the remastering of this game seems heavy-handed and disagreeable. I’m not sure the reasoning for this given that this is a videogame and one that is based very much so in a dark time in history. This means that the Nazi insignia and even the Japanese rising sun imagery has been sanitized. Additionally, in a polarizing move, the decision was made to remove the original war iconography, as one community member put it. The silver lining is that Yippee are paying attention to the community and are continuing to address performance bugs and the like with regular patches, and that says a lot, but the game would have been a much more polished release with another few months of development. Unfortunately, one month removed from launch and several patches later, the game still has a ways to go to restore it to the former glory of the original. When I first heard about the HD Remaster last year, I was excited to see the series get some much deserved attention. For some fifteen years now, the series has been silent, but just recently Kalypso Media published an HD Remaster of Commandos 2: Men of Courage as done by Yippee Entertainment. In time, a standalone expansion would release, as well as two large and successful sequels, and then a forgettable transition to first person shooter on the original Xbox.

I remember purchasing Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines at the store and enjoying leading my squad of six specialized commandos across Europe during events of WWII. Way back when, in the late 90s, the Commandos series began, and it was awesome.

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