Posted on: February 10, 2018
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A Commandos clone that gets it right
It's no secret that Shadow Tactics is a Commandos clone. Let's be honest, though: there hadn't quite been any "Commandos-likes" in a long time, so that alone makes Shadow Tactics worth playing but I can honestly say that ST is easily the best game in this genre thus far. What ST does well is that it focuses on recreating the magic of the original Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines, unlike any of its successors and other clones that, in my opinion, unnecessarily bloated the formula with too convoluted missions and too many mechanics. Lots of the stuff in the game is just a reskin of things from BeL and all of the additions are perfectly legitimate and genuinely enhance the gameplay. You can hide in bushes, there's night missions where you're generally less visible but light sources are hugely dangerous, there's a lot of climbing and kinda platforming. Your characters are generally more useful and there's lots of small enhancements like cones gradually filling up when you're spotted, often giving you time to get out of danger, and Shadow Mode which makes it super easy to set up synchronised actions for multiple characters. There's nothing quite as satisfying as setting up a combined move for all your characters that brutally brings down multiple enemies at once. And something I appreciated very much were distinct enemy types that can be easily told apart, have distinct behavioural patterns and require different approaches. Especially samurai, who can see through disguises and are generally hard to kill, were a brilliant addition. Why only four stars, though? For one, I didn't feel the story was particularly captivating nor did the game make best use of its historical setting. There's no big surprises and the characters are pretty shallow. The other thing is that the game is still utterly based on scumsaving which feels very out of place in a modern title and could have been handled better. None of that keeps the game from being the best title in the genre, however.
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