Commandos 2+3

The first commandos and his expansion were great, but is in the second episode when the game acquires a whole new dimension: Each character has his own inventory/backpack, each one could perform common actions like drive, swim or stun an enemy, so the tactics to solve the missions are multiplied by x1000. You could go stealth, or with more quick action, especially with the green beret and an MP40, or the sapper with grenades... The pretty good interiors also add lots of depth to the game. The scenarios are awesome even nowadays, with awesome level of detail in the textures, high quality enemy animations... The Colditz castle, for example, is probably one of bests maps/levels I've ever played on a videogame. Nearly all missions have big reminiscences of classic WWII films, so playing this game is like to be in a classic movie. The OST and voice acting are amazing. The bonus missions add more hours to the game trying to explore each furniture of the levels just to unlock them (10 little missions more added to the 10 big ones). The difficulty levels allow everyone to enjoy this game (even you would need your quicksave/quickload keys pretty much). A truly classic masterpiece and the best game in Commandos saga. About Commandos 3, even that is pretty similar, is a smaller, quick-combat oriented game, so isn't nicer as 2. The time limit sometimes just add not necessary pressure on the gameplay, and they reduced the number of commandos (there is no Driver, no female spy, no dog), no bonus missions... a good game, but not great as the second one.

Commandos 3 was not working from windows 11. Please make a fix~

...And it still holds up well today. Very good squad based problem solving game. There's no modern game quite like this, It resembles XCOM in some aspects but I must say I prefer this game over the modern XCOM games. Challenging and very rewarding game, make sure to save a lot and learn all the features of the game and your squad members, you'll need it :p

This is not a review of the gameplay itself, because that is stellar, hence me not flat out giving it a 1 star review. I grew up with Commandos. I still remember the first time I played it. I never played anything like it before and it was an odd game that somehow managed to hook me with incredible freedom to complete tasks and thoughtful strategic gameplay. That being said, this is a review of a product that I paid for. It is a hassle to get running and following fixes only led to temporary solutions before I would run into trouble again. I can't reccomend them even at a very low price unless you are a superfan, meet the dated requirements or have the knowledge, skillset, want to "fix" it. For me it was not worth the headache and I am sadly moving on to playing other games.

I remember playing these games a very long time ago. I played the first one in the 90s when it came out. I still have the demo somewhere. They've actually been on GOG for a very long time, too, but I never bought them because I am not good at them. I remember constantly restarting over and over. But I just saw The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare today, which was a phenomenal film, and I was overwhelmed with nostalgia for this game because of that movie. I should be clear- this game is completely unrelated to Ungentlemanly Warfare, which is basically the story of how Ian Fleming came up with James Bond. However, that being said it still is in a lot of ways that too. Because both things talk about spies during World War 2 I guess. For some reason though it very much made me think of this series again. Now I want to get them, but I'll wait for a sale since they probably don't work without fiddling with them.