Hidden & Dangerous 2: Courage Under Fire

Too many people are unaware of this tactical shooter gem. I'd rank it right up there with SWAT 3/4 and the Rainbow Six series. I don't have many bad things to say about this game. It features great tactical squad-based WW2 gameplay as the SAS. There's a lot of equipment to choose from and lots of great missions with a lot of variety. Then it has this amazing tactical map, on which you can assign precise orders to your squad members; this lifts the tactical aspect of this game to a whole another level. Direct orders can also be issued to your teammates if you're not fond of the tactical map. The shooting and gunplay itself is a lot of fun too. This is one of those games I keep coming back to over and over again, and now I'm happy that it's finally available on GOG. I'd recommend this game to every tactical shooter fan.

A really fun game series, most missions are relatively open ended and you can go guns blazing or stealth or mix it up a bit, there are only one or two stealth missions where you have to avoid alerting the guards, first played it sometime between 2003 and 2004 and really got hooked on it, my friends also loved the game we had many a fun lan sessions. For newbies there is bug on mission 6 Spaghetti Airport where the document may sometimes spawn in one of the crates/cupboards in the hangar and you are unable to attain them, just restart that mission and it should be in one of the pilots tents, I have also seen some fellows that have made a fix for that online but that's for you to decide if you want to download files from strangers.. At the end of the mission I recommend taking the truck with the AA gun, makes the next mission much more enjoyable and easily rid you some pesky bf109's. Controls are remappable so configure it to a control scheme you are more comfortable with. For the fellow that's having the problem of guards instantly being alerted while in disguise, make sure you don't have non German weapons and items equipped on your hand and webbing, also stay too long in direct sight of enemy and eventually they will recognize you as not one of their men, there is a stealth meter so keep an eye on that. For a game released quite a while back in 2003 it has a lot of features, I like the fact that bodies and equipment dont despawn, you have to pick up weapons and search bodies for ammo and other items. The ability to take prisoners which allows us to take their uniforms is also fun, usually works best when most of the enemy in an engagement are killed and you injure the last fellow or just shoot automatic weapons on the ground next to them, sometimes they will eventually panic and run away, if you just chase after them while shooting around them you will eventually stop and surrender.

I cannot believe it has been 14 years since H&D2 was released and the reason for my disbelief is simple: where atmosphere, creative writing and attention to historical detail were concerned, Illusion Softworks (now 2K Czech) were always ahead of the game. These are the people who, when faced with the prospect of making a WW2 FPS, first went out to buy authentic WW2 weapons to better understand how they operated, sounded and felt. If you want a more realistic shooter with great atmosphere and RPG-lite character progression, this game comes highly recommended. It can be unforgiving and it is not without its faults, but the sheer quality of the graphics, animation, writing and game-play easily stand the test of time.

I have this game on cds. I played at this game many hours. The game have good fights in cities/villages, good in open maps like desert. Nice details like laying grass when you crawl or crouch, can shot off helmet from head or you can scare and press a enemy to surrender, and take his uniform. Inventory, you can choose almost everything, big or small backpack, set soldiers as heavy gunner, sniper, medic, silent gunner or whatever you want. It require to plan what you can need in next missions, it works seriously. Very good thing is that, we have two modes. You can play as regular shooter with orders for your squad or tactical when you need only mouse to control all soldiers and it possible to change whenever moment at the game, for example in desert you play as tactical mode when you coming closer to the building change mode by one button and play as soldier and send orders to other soldiers. It gives progress of soldiers, if you shoot a lot, then receive more points to accuracy, if use med kits, then increase first aid, if hanging heavy loads then strength. I can recommend to all loving (tactical) shooters

The original Hidden and Dangerous was buggy beyond belief, but the sequel managed to perfect the game mechanics, allowing players to follow different styles of play in pursuit of mission success. Leading a team of saboteurs across a range of WW2 battlefields will offer many challenges and hard choices regarding kit and personnel to be made along the way. Whether playing the game in SP or MP Hidden and Dangerous II will provide many hours of enjoyment, though one has to balance that against the wonder why no follow up game ever came out to carry on its proud tradition.