Posted on: February 25, 2017
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Games: 262 Reviews: 5
Simply perfect!
This game is perfect! It plays out as a sort-of mix between 'Rainbow Six', 'Commandos' and 'Splinter Cell', and I'd even stretch as to call it a sort-of predecessor to OP: Flashpoint. Though this is H&D: a series well mentioning on its' own. Sadly, it's been too far since it was continued. H&D2 offers epic scenarios where you control four soldiers during ww2, each with different stats and each of them learning what you practice during each mission. A character firing a lot might increase shooting, a character sneaking around and picking a lot of locks may increase in just those skills instead. During the missions you'll need to capture important people, reach objectives, blow things up, hold areas and sometimes stay alive. During most of the missions, however, losing a squad member does not mean "game over", only you loose that character from the remainder of the game. So you'd better not have them killed. And you won't be able to replace his slot in the squad until the scenario is completed. You never really know what might come up between the missions in a scenario, so you'd also better make sure to gear up for a spectrum of situations and make sure you pack your backpack sensefully. There are lots of guns with great feeling to them (oh, the BAR in this game, it's historically good!) and while it doesn't seem to actually help, chosing your uniforms adds much to the fun. This game truly gives lots of amazing play-time as it plays out in a wide range of environments; Norways winter, the African desert, Central-european cities and, well, yes even in Burma, just to mention a few. Also, the game offers a just as wide range of playabiliy; you could main most missions as the stealthy one, timely infiltrating up close with the knife, or sniping afar, suppressing with an MG or just running and gunning using subs with heaps of ammunition clips. A good strategy, I'd say, is often cruicial to succeed. All nostalgia aside, this game still holds up excellently. It's a must-try.
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