Till Desperados I play all the Commandos games

Now it is confirmed, 63 days is new game in genre

There are rumors about Warsaw Uprising game (with exact number of time period in it name), spiritual sequel of War Mongrels.

I need your help 😅 A couple days ago I saw a trailer for an RTT a la Commandos for PS5 in a WW2 setting with good graphics which is soon to come out I believe and I for the love of god can't remember what it's called or find the video in which I saw the trailer. Whelp😢

I would recommend WonHon: A Vengeful Spirit. A horror commandos-type game. It's a pretty unique take on the genre!

I think Commandos 2 has aged worse than the original. Instead of interesting gameplay challenges or refining the stealth mechanics, they simply added a bunch of stuff without giving it much thought. The interior of the buildings sometimes gives you more interesting scenarios, but the flawed camera and controls are more evident in those cramped spaces, and ultimately it just makes the game tedious, with the Colditz mission being the worst example. So much effort wasted on pointless filler, like modelling the entire Eiffel tower and doing nothing with it. It's funny how, even with all the things the added into the game, the best addition to the genre (the simultaneous actions) had to come from another developer.

Hey, I liked the video pretty much, and I really liked you. Any plans on another video?

Hey, I'm that one guy from Czech Republic that at least knows about Korea: Forgotten conflict, but I must be upfront right away. The only thing I know about this game is that it wasn't great and me and my dad played it once by accident. My dad was a HUGE fan of the original Commandos Behind Enemy Lines and Commandos Beyond the Call of Duty. When I was sick and he was home with me to take care of me, he used to play and I was laying down on the couch watching him play. When he bought Commandos 2 we both did a somewhat of a competetion who'll beat it first with ALL the bonus mission medals... maaan good times, but when we were about to get Commandos 3, let's just say my dad wasn't exactly happy to ... BUY ... every single game :^) To be honest back in the day, most of the games were impossible to get here, as long as the game didn't have an OFFICIAL Czech translation, getting your hands on a copy was quite the hard task so many people who know how to burn CDs ran these "small businesses" of selling games/music CDs and to this day I have TONS of these CDs ... well they are at my parent's house, but we all have 'em. And when he heard from his friend that he knows a guy that knows a guy that's sellin' burned CDs of Commandos 3? My dad just have him the money and one week later we had that CD home, both ready the play the shit outta that game, but it was the aforementioned ... well, garbage. At the time we knew like "Hi, yes, no, goodbye and please" and even movies used to change names between episodes so we thought they might've just changed the name completely to something else :^) But I digress, the intro of the game if I remember was straight ripoff of the Commandos 2 intro, with the real life footage, but for some reason I remember it looked like those old FMV Command & Conquer type of shite. We both played the first mission and we for the love of god couldn't kill the first guard. Every time we tried to knife him, our character would get stuck and just wouldn't follow him over to the next vagon. The next thing I remember is my dad somewhat pissed off he payed for such bullshit :^) Later that day we had an icecream since he said He'd rather die from his Diabetes problems than play any of that game. It's 100% among the ton of other CDs so when I'll stop by and maybe remember, I'll try to pick it up and ran it on either virtual machine or I'm willing to bet one of our old PCs are still gonna be kept in the basement somewhere :^) Off topic: We used to play Might and Magic 6, 7 and 8 as a whole family. My parents, my brother and sister and me all had dedicated save spots, we all had turns and collectively clawed our way towards the end of each game. My dad always had this issue of finding his way around the world, since he never remembered which location leads to another. So my mom drew a huge map of all the locations how they are connected and on each page was a huge map of each location with all the buildings, dungeons... all the houses had text if there's a teacher and if they are either an expert, master or grandmaster. Which potion color do what, combinations of potions to create white and black potions. All the quest guides where certain quest items are kept and so on... We even used to play god damn Quake on LAN to decide who's gonna clean the dishes ... I fucking love my family for real My family FOR SURE ain't perfect, but man these memories of playing all those games together or against each other... Age of Empires 1 & 2, Starcraft, Quake and Quake 3 Arena, Contra, Battle City on NES (well, polish bootleg of famicom console called "Micro Genius IQ 502" also known as PEGASUS in Poland and in Russia it was called "Dendi" if I'm not mistaken) I seriously consider my childhood perfect. Always bruised up from playing outside through out the day and in the evening we used to play on PC or NES ... what else would child need innit?

I'm sure you have heard this already, but Commandos is back baby! Commandos Origins announcement trailer was released 5 months ago, and it was great! And just a few days ago, the map and locations trailers are released, and i'm soo hyped with it! As much as i can't wait to play it, i really hope that they spend more time and maybe even delaying it to polish the game more!

Red Glare

amazing content. One thing though , i feel commandos 2 is the best of these just bccz of the music <3. feel like that deserves some credit!

As somebody who also has Shadow Tactics as their favorite game in the genre, here are my two cents on the main reasons why it's better than Desperados 3. The first is level design. I recall ST's levels feeling a lot more distinct and varied, whereas the ones in D3 tend to blur together to some extent in my mind. The second, and more important, is character balance, which is off in D3. Hector, for example, kind of overperforms as essentially a merging of Yuki and Mugen from ST. I can't exactly diagnose him with Green Beret Syndrome, but he's trending in that direction. Meanwhile, the disguise character has been nerfed heavily, to the point where that's practically the only thing she's good at. Mimimi actually has a GDC talk that I'd recommend checking out if you haven't already, and they bring this up as precisely what you want to avoid in the genre. Then there's the voodoo lady, who I remember being more of a cheat code used to get past tricky situations than an actual party member with strengths and weaknesses. There are also some other things, like the superior story and characters of ST or Edo Japan simply being a much stronger setting for this kind of game, but those are more subjective so I wanted to focus mostly on the gameplay with this comment.

I feel more "commandos-ments" are needed, else playing PoE II: Deadfire as a stealth-focused party pretty much fits the bill for example

Have you heard of a fairly new czech game called Last Train Home? Id say its pretty nice. It follows the czechoslovak legion fighting their way home in the russian civil war. It kind of has 2 game modes, the first being managing your train, upgrading it, and managing your resources. And secondly, rts combat missions that you have to deploy to and really work to try and have your squad of up to 10 soldiers try and best entire detachments of bolshevik infantry, artillery, and armored units.

Did you ever play Heat Signature? Might be your cup of tea. You do one-man boarding raids on spaceships. Lots of funky abilities like letting a guard shoot at you, then swapping places with him so his bullet hits him. Hacking turrets. Breaking glass so characters get sucked out of rooms.

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Hi, Im czech and I remember Korea:forgotten conflit very well. I have original game here and it still works. =) It is not so bad game. Not as good as commandos of course, but it is nice to play.

You should try (Last Train Home) game

a new game just released this year. looks pretty good. Red Glare

I think War Mongrels is hte best one. I bought the game and absolutely love it.

What politics were in Partisans 1941? Is it "political" to acknowledge that the Soviets fought the Nazis in WWII?

As a commandos fan myself having played them back at release (Ye I'm that old) and later bying them again on steam I have always felt the glaring missing element: When the guards walk their patrol and knows that their buddies does the same for that shift and have seen John Doe walk the same path for an hour and then he is suddently not there anymore and you don't react or care if he has been missing for the last 20 min.. I know it is a layer of complexity the developers were probably not wanting to take on but I think it would make sense if the guards change their patterns based on missing members of their team - walk to the missing guards point of route origin if they haven't been seen for 5 min. Although if it is one of the longer missions that will make the whole mission much much harder. if that triggers the alarm; It doesn't have to though it could just be that a guard more is summoned from the guardhouse if you haven't blown that up within those 5-10 min or that the guard patterns are now changed so that all the areas of the base is covered. It felt unrealistic that a base commander and all their soldiers didn't care for half an hour that the main gate wasn't attended anymore... But it is one of my favorite games but not as good as the BG series though :)

mimi stop mnaking games i heard about that, now days people are really bussy playing and spending on rigged and scam games. like call of duty no1

as non russian non eurpean i just wanna play warmongar game, but its full hate with russian one and only slavic and christian people, in europ

Shadow tactics, War mongrels, and Partisans are the best commandos like games

I still find it hilarious that War Mongrels, of all games, is not only still available here in Russia, but is sold not only on Steam but also in our native and sovereign VKPlay. Zloty non olet but who the hell will actually buy it there? I'd add Soldiers of Anarchy to the list but that's really reaching out.

Try Phantom Doctrine

Commandos 2 was the pinnacle of gaming in my life. It was just the most immersive experience

I m love TACTICS STEALTH GAMES but i love Jagged Alliance Cross Fire too

and Red Glare

another game : the third wave

Korea: Zapomniany Konflikt - miałem tą gre z jakiegoś pisma, albo budżetowego wydania, jakie były popularne we wczesnych latach 2000. Gra była strasznie szkalowana w swoich czasach ze względu na "brzydką grafikę 3D" czyli nic innego - ludzie przyzwyczaili się do malowanych map stylu graficznego znanego ze starszych tytułów i duże wymagania graficzne. Z czego pamiętam ja miałem tam bardzo dużo bugów związanych z pathfindingiem i zaliczaniem celów misji, ale pamiętam to jak przez mgłę - było to prawie 20 lat temu.

There was also Cold Zero

Asked ChatGPT to list recent games similar to the "Shadow Tactics", these are the results it gave me: 1- Desperados III 2- Commandos 2: HD Remaster 3- Partisans 1941 4- Invisible, Inc. 5- Phantom Doctrine 6- Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden 7- Alder's Blood “Mutant Year Zero” aesthetically looks the best IMO! I am surprised that recent games still have bad graphics like Commandos 1998!

Nice compilation and review. Keep it up. Subscribed because I see potential in you! ;)

How exactly do u only have 300 subs even tho you make vids as good as this

Loved the video, broseph! Been searching for more Commando-like games recently. I have to make a suggestion to add to this list. Aliens: Dark Descent meets all your commandoments! Isometric perspective? Check. 2. Each character in the squad has different abilities. Check. Their abilities are all equally useful depending on the situation as well. 3. Emphasis on stealth? Check. You may not think so given the trailers. However, the more combat you get into, the more the hive is alerted, which means the harder the mission becomes until it's untenable. If you don't practice stealth, you will not win. 4. Enemy Vision cones? Check. Unless you're being pedantic. No cones, but vision circles and lines informing you that enemy doesn't see you, is about to see you or has found you. 5. Save scumming as an intentional design. Absolutely. Even in the first mission, there's a boss fight that if you just walk in without a plan, you will be decimated. There's no warning, and there are other times the game will just take a massive dump on you. You just have to ration your saves, however, since it follows a risk vs. reward playstyle. As someone who grew up playing the Commandos games, I would say that A:DD absolutely belongs on this list. 10/10 it's my favorite game of 2023.

commandos: origins announced btw, it is such a crime this RTT genre so underutilized, i can't believe there is only 17 games since it appeared. Played a lot commandos 2 and desperados: wanted dead and alive back in the days never complained how hard it is since i thought 'games' supposed to be hard like this but turns out this genre is one of the hardest LOL. It is a damn shame mimimi games closed down but i can understand this genre is pretty niche and production value must be high since one of requirement is high replay value. I really want desperados 3 sequel that cover event between it and desperados: wanted dead or alive man, even thq nordics consider it on survey one year after desperados 3 released. :(

To this day, i am still playing the hell out of Commandos 2 and Desperados 2, which are the best in their respective series. Commandos 1 was too linear, no choices, unlike Commandos 2. The game was more fun and with more replayability value, without the stress and the need to reload often. Desperados 2 it's not broken at all. The choice of views it's a blessing. There are times that you need to go all out wild west shootouts and the 3rd person view is marvelous.

Big like for your time for researching

Dude... but Poland DID suffer during WWII: you were attacked from 2 fronts, you had most of the deadliest concentration camps in all of Europe, you had to fight the Nazis with armed militia for the most part during the Warsaw uprising, the capital was almost completely destroyed, and yes, you lost land and were subjected to countless abuses after the war by the USSR. What of any of those things is not true?

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Checkout "Syndicate" (1993 video game) by bullfrog. A legendary classic in my opinion. Quite hard for me. But the nostalgia runs high with this old school one. (p.s. they had a follow-up game "Syndicate Wars" which was cool too.

lol have you heard about Warhammwr and Myth released before Commandos? How could you name something as clone of Commandis as Commandis wasn’t even the first? No Blitzkrieg, no Men of War, no Sudden Strike… Not a great research.

Let me pour one out for mimimi games here 🫗, I played and enjoyed all 4 of those games. You'll be missed.

Świetny materiał, jestem pod wrażeniem ilości detali jakie poruszyłeś i trafnych spostrzeżeń. Mimo iż, gry studia mimimi zrobiły na mnie duże wrażenie, to War Mongrels skradło miano jednej z najlepszych gier tego typu - dla mnie. Serdecznie Ci polecam powrót, po wielu łatkach, gra jest po prostu znakomita. Z wielkimi nadziejami, że tego nie spierdolą - oczekuję na Commandos: Origins - pozdrawiam

hey bastard do a new video or sume, play oe recomend similar games like Partisans 1941 or last train home. I dont care about your 5 things btw

Really surprised you haven't mentioned Satellite Reign from former developers of Syndicate franchise

To add to the problems Robin Hood had, there's one quite egregious I have to mention : There are so many playable characters, that their 'main' abilities are 'diluted' to ridiculous levels and reduced to a measly set of three or something almost just as small. For instance, one character can only shoot a bow or swing a sword, while another can only tie up enemies or swing a sword, while another can only punch enemies or throw a net or swing a sword, while another can only carry bodies or shoot a bow, .... etc ... To summarize : characters are so limited that you need to bring as many as you can on every mission and keep them as close as possible, just so you can perform a very basic set of actions that are supposed to complement each other. For instance, you will probably need one character to lure an enemy into a trap, another character to punch him out, another character to tie him up and yet another character to carry him to a secure location that is out of sight. In so many other Commandos-likes, that could have been done with just one or two characters.

Clown. Where's Fallout Tactics? Stop making claims you can't backup. Where's Shadow run, where's shogun? where's hard west?