Amazon Maximum Age: 240 months
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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Eidos
EAN: 0788687100533
ESRB Age Rating: Teen
Format: CD-ROM
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Weight: 40 hundredths-pounds
Label: Eidos Interactive
Manufacturer: Eidos Interactive
Packaged Height: 130 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 740 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 40 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 550 hundredths-inches
Platform: Windows XP
Publisher: Eidos Interactive
Release Date: 2006-05-03
Studio: Eidos Interactive
Feature:
- Experience stealth and action combat in this 1st-person shooter game
- Play as 1 of 3 elite commandos--the Green Beret, Sniper, or Spy
- Execute deadly attacks from behind enemy lines; 2-commando missions
- Open-ended levels and multiple sub-missions within levels for more control
- Online multiplayer modes for up to 16 players
Product Description:
Commandos: Strike Force makes you into one of the deadliest warriors on the planet. Move freely in open battlefields and execute deadly attacks with extreme control. Set ambushes, attack silently and unseen, infiltrate prisoner of war camps, stalk and stab, all while being completely surrounded by the enemy. Your job is to strike first. Online multiplayer combat, with up to 8 players online with console and up to 16 players via PC
Customer Reviews:
 A welcome edition to the current crop of WW2 games,, 2008-02-25
Changes have certainly been a foot since we met the Commandos franchise last. Traditionally an isometric-perspective, strategy-come-puzzle game, the franchise has made the switch to first-person, and it's made a far better fist of it than we'd anticipated. Certainly those who shudder at the mere mention of the first-person Command & Conquer: Renegade has little to fear here.
That said they don't have an awful lot to set their pulses racing either. For Commandos sticks to its formula of having, in this case, three differing troops you can switch between at the touch of the space bar, each of whom has different skills.
Want brute force and firepower? Enter the Green Beret. Need someone to sneak around unnoticed? That's the Spy. Looking for some long range cover? Meet the Sniper. Using the combined skills of all these three, replete with regular switching between them, you tackle a variety of missions that have a pleasant, puzzle-like element to them.
So what's the problem them, you may wonder? In this case, it's the fact that as a first-person shooter it's quite good, as a sniper game it's quite good, and as a stealth game it's quite good. Add them all together, and you have a well-packaged hybrid of game genres that just about glue together. The catch? In every one of the genres it tackles - sniping, action and stealth - it's some distance behind the respective market leaders.
And yet in another cunning review twist, reminiscent of an unproductive day in the '24' story lining department, I'm still edging you towards buying it. Not because it's any great moment in gaming history, but more because it's a nice, tidy and enjoyable first-person action adventure, which may lack special tricks but doesn't fall short when it comes to a damned good challenge.
What's more, even if you were a fan of Commandos in its previous livery, with the isometric intense real-time strategy that's not harmed Eidos' bank account over the past few years; you'll find this a respectful migration to a new perspective.
True, it's been simplified a fair bit, but the thinking and plotting behind Commandos has remained intact. And, in fact, moving to first-person mode appears to have liberated the game designers, who are nowhere near as insistent as they used to be on you tackling certain things in certain orders, with little variation. Good on 'em.
Strike Force may not need much a mantel piece to keep its awards on, but it'd not go without a bit of love in your very own home.
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