Commandos: Strike Force

It is good, but certainly not an excellent World War 2 shooter. Other franchises, like Brothers in Arms or Medal of Honor are surely better than this one, but if you already finished them off you may as well give it a try. It is still an interesting game. You can play with several different characters of the team, switching between them, so that is fresh - sort of a FPS version of 'Commandos Behind Enemy Lines'. Game does feel a bit too arcadish though, and graphics struggle to be called 'good'. All in all it's not the worst game for you to pick if you're a fan of FPS titles set in WW2, but it's also not the greatest one.

I'm in big love with the first Commandos game - heck, even sequels were good! This game, I can't call this a Commandos game. It's no longer strategy game but some FPS, that isn't fun or challenging at all. Even for a FPS game Commandos: Strike Force is very poor game. Playing as spy is kinda fun but otherwise it's just a boring game. It's sad to see great franchise as Commandos to have this game. If you are fan of Commandos series DON'T BUY this game. You will regret this. Maybe, if you never played original Commandos, you might have some fun, but that's the only way to have a little fun of this title.

I feel bad for games like this but then again it's also the developers fault somewhat. They take a game series that had worked really well as one thing and try to convert it into something else. On it's own it's not a terrible game but being attached to the commandos brand means it's going to always be compared to the other games in the series. Those games were very innovative and challenging and even today highly regarded, so to take a few elements of that gameplay and put it into a rather generic shooter was never really going to work out. It's fun enough to play and the mechanics aren't terrible but it's just not commandos. To be honest, a game like Hidden and dangerous 2 does a better job of being a commandos FPS than this does with it's squad play, inventory management and different skill sets. If you've never played the original commandos or really don't enjoy hard core strategy games then this will be an inoffensive enough game to play through once, no more linear than most modern shooters and with a few new twists even. Graphics are not going to break your system and sounds are good. All in all an enjoyable enough shooter, just not a commandos game.

In each of the fourteen missions available in CSF, we will have to drive a maximum of two characters, and sometimes, instead, take our missions solo - with the default character from the computer, without the possibility of "switcharing" with other members of the team - making the most of the intrinsic features of our commando. The game shows with graphics not top notch, but of great impact. Much less pleasant Artificial Intelligence that controls our opponents. Given that, in ninety percent of the situations, just kneel not to be seen by an enemy a foot from us, the good Germans are not very smart even at the highest level of difficulty. The challenge they present in combat is therefore almost nothing, even by virtue of the fact that they tend to die for a gunshot fired by six kilometers. Much more interesting is the stealth component, when it comes to get behind the victim and strangle him: but sin that the tenth same animation in a row, it gets boring to see the enemy reeling and die.

Commandos Strike Force is not a RTS like the other title of the series, but try to recreate the same gameplay mechanics in a first person shooter: for example you will command different characters with their unique abilities. The game is boring, repetitive and less complex compared to the other Commandos titles. If you love Commandos series you should avoid to buy this title.