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Commandos: Strike Force is a first person tactical shooter video game and the fifth installment of the Commandos series. It is developed by Pyro Studios and published by Eidos Interactive.
Released during the first months of 2006, the game makes a departure from the first four games. Although the missions are set up in a similar fashion (several objectives, some to be achieved through stealth, others through use of force) and in most occasions the player is allowed to change between characters, this is the first game in the series to apply a first-person perspective, like many other World War II-inspired games, in contrast to the overhead view of the earlier games. Hence, the game is far more similar to the Medal of Honor or Call of Duty games than to earlier entries of the series.
The game is split between three campaigns in France, Norway and the Soviet Union during World War II. The first campaign takes place in occupied France in 1942. The Strike Force commandos consist of the British sniper: Lieutenant William Hawkins, London's Green Beret: Captain Francis O'Brien and the German (But not Nazi) spy and leader: Colonel George Brown. The commandos assist the French resistance to secure a village, but are forced to evacuate when their positions are compromised by a double agent (O'Brien suspecting that it is Brown). Brown aids the resistance in a town by taking out all targets of opportunity and liberating a medical doctor.
The next campaign takes the commandos to occupied Norway, as they find out that the Nazis are attempting to win the race for Nuclear fission, so they fight through a port town and several guard posts in the water, in order for them to move the explosives required to destroy the secret facilities. Under cover of darkness, the commandos launch a surprise attack on the Nazi-occupied town of Shundein, as it was also part of the route the explosives truck must follow. After a long battle, the enemy is repelled from the town.
The last campaign brings the commandos to Stalingrad in order to retrieve a priceless Russian relic which the Nazis have seized. The Commandos are aided by the Soviet Commisar Salenkov and led to a sewer. Once in the sewers, Lieutenant Hawkins finds a platoon heading their way, so Brown has his teammates captured to allow himself to freely explore the garrisoned town and infiltrate the headquarters, where he rescues his teammates and retrieves the relic. During their exfiltration, Brown finds that the double agent and Nazi informer is none other than Salenkov, who had purposefully led them to the sewers as he knew they would be captured that way. Brown kills the traitor and drives the commandos out of the HQ. Hawkins and O'Brien take out various targets in the ruins of the town, then group up with a Red Army squad to repel several waves of Nazi invaders. Their victory ends with Brown reuniting with the commandos and celebrating.
The player is required to complete a number of objectives in each mission. Throughout the missions, the player will make use of either one or two of the three members of the Strike Force. Each Strike Force member has particular weapons, tools and talents suited to their role. The Green Beret can wield Pistols akimbo and heavy weaponry. The Sniper use scoped rifles and throwing knives and is the only one who can swim in freezing water. The Spy can use a silenced pistol and gas grenades (provided with a gas mask) and wear any uniforms acquired to fool lower ranked soldiers.
Pyro Studios was briefly considering a Commandos 4 game, but ultimately decided to introduce their franchise to console systems by creating a first-person shooter. Taking players' frustrations of the previous games into consideration, the company decided to balance the difficulty elements to their new game. They chose not to base the missions and levels on historically accurate events to make the game design flexible, while deriving some elements from the previous games in the series.[1]
The game received "mixed" reviews on all platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.[19][20][21] Fans of the earlier games in the series felt that Strike Force lacked the trademark difficulty of the previous games. Similarly, it was promoted as mixing elements of strategy from the past games with traditional first-person shooter gameplay, but instead only hinted them while being predominantly action oriented. As a result, both critics and fans felt it did little to distance itself from the recent flood of similar games.[citation needed] In Japan, where the PlayStation 2 version was ported and published by Spike on 21 September 2006,[citation needed] Famitsu gave it a score of two sevens and two sixes for a total of 26 out of 40.[6]
Commandos: Strike Force is a first-person shooter computer game and the fifth installment of critically acclaimed Commandos series. It is developed by Pyro Studios and published by Eidos Interactive.
Released during the first months of 2006, the game makes a departure from the first three games. Although the missions are set-up in a similar fashion (several different objectives, some to be achieved through stealth, others through use of force) and in most occasions the player is allowed to change between different characters, this is the first game in the series to apply a first-person perspective, like many other World War II inspired games, in contrast to the overhead view of the earlier games. Hence, the game is far more similar to the Medal of Honor or Call of Duty games than to earlier entries of the series. The game introduces new weaponry including shotgun, grenade launcher, light machineguns and a dual-akimbo mode (only for the Green Beret).
The game attracted an overwhelmingly negative reaction, especially from those coming from fans of the earlier games in the series who see this a massive departure mainly due to the trademark difficulty instead giving way to a game that is much less so. Similarly, it was promoted as mixing elements of strategy from the past games with traditional first-person shooter gameplay but instead only hinted them and whilst being predominantly action orientated. As a result, both critics and fans felt it did little to distance itself from the recent flood of similar games.
Unlike the previous games, this game has only three playable commandos which are the Green Beret, Sniper, and the Spy. They are considered as a combination of the commandos from the previous games. For example, the sniper is the only commando that can swim even in the cold water. While Green Beret and Spy can plant bombs on enemy targets.
The game is divided into three campaigns. The first one takes place in France 1942 and consists of five missions. The second one takes place in Norway and consists of four missions. The third and last one takes place in USSR and consists of six missions. In most missions, the player will only be able to play as one type of commando, while in others, the player can switch between two different commandos to do different tasks, Missions have a Rating system of up to 5 stars, obtaining 5 starts on every mission in the game will unlock Commando Difficulty.
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You and your chums parachute behind enemy lines and ninja your way into a German encampment. Using stealth and improvisation, your small team of commandos strike out at the pulsing heart of the Third Reich in an attempt to cripple it from within. With a little help from the French Resistance, you sink your squad deep within enemy territory and go to work sniping, strangling and sabotaging.
Commandos: Strike Force presents an elite team of three professional killers, each with his own specialization from sniping to espionage, but doesn't quite deliver on the strategic legacy of its predecessors. The Commandos series has long been celebrated as a uniquely tactical approach to the crowded WWII genre, but the newest episode wildly departs from this. The games evolution, or mutation, into a first-person shooter has crippled the strategic aspects that originally attracted gamers to the series.
Stripping the number of playable soldier classes down to a mere three (cut in half from the original six), Commandos: Strike Force focuses on stealth with Bill the sniper, O'Brien the green beret and Colonel Brown the spy. Each class has their own set of special abilities: the sniper can hold his breath to squeeze off flawless headshots or use knives at close range, the green beret wields dual automatic rifles and grenades; and the spy disguises himself in order to penetrate Nazi defenses without firing a shot. Unfortunately, the spy and sniper play remarkably similarly as both employ sneaking around as their primary weapon, while the green beret remains your basic dude-with-a-buncha-guns.