Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines (1998)
Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines is a 1998 puzzle video game made by Pyro Studios and Eidos Interactive.
Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines is a real-time tactics game set in the European theater of World War II. You control six Allied specialists, each with distinct skills, and move them through overhead maps full of German soldiers on patrol. The game has no abstracted dice rolls. Every guard has a cone of vision, a hearing radius, and a patrol route that you learn through observation and patience. Twenty-four missions ask you to sabotage supply lines, assassinate officers, and extract prisoners without alerting the base. The planning and execution feel closer to a puzzle than a war film.
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What is Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines about?
Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines is a real-time tactics game set in the European theater of World War II. You control six Allied specialists, each with distinct skills, and move them through overhead maps full of German soldiers on patrol. The game has no abstracted dice rolls. Every guard has a cone of vision, a hearing radius, and a patrol route that you learn through observation and patience. Twenty-four missions ask you to sabotage supply lines, assassinate officers, and extract prisoners without alerting the base. The planning and execution feel closer to a puzzle than a war film.
When was Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines released?
Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines was released on 31 July 1998.
Who made Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines?
Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines was made by Pyro Studios and Eidos Interactive.
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The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare captures the same era and the same fondness for small-team sabotage behind enemy lines, with a tone that mixes operational precision with dry humor. The Great Raid is more earnest but equally focused on careful planning and the high stakes of extraction under occupation.
WWII special operations: small teams, impossible odds
Commandos puts you in command of six specialists whose combined skills are the only way through. That premise, a small crew with complementary abilities running missions behind enemy lines, runs through some of the best WWII films.