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by Jare 4497 days ago
When we started work on Commandos 2, we threw away everything from Commandos 1, and started from scratch. 15 years down the road, all the coders still agree that was the best decision ever.
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Man, I loved Commandos 1 back in the day. I recently got a bit nostalgic and bought the whole series on Steam, and they are still great games! But MAN are the controls opaque. Thinking back, I think the game came with a little cardboard sheet with all the controls on it, which would have been easier to deal with.

Fantastic game though, thanks :)

Were you on the Commandos team? Mad respect to you. Probably my most favourite game of all times. Thanks for working on it.
Thanks! I was technology/tools lead on 2, and while my role in 1 was... hard to explain, yeah my contribution was important. :)
Did you write about that somewhere? Could you, even? Pretty please?
When I hear "Commandos" it makes me nostalgic :-(, but kudos to you and your team !!
Commandos 2 is one of my favorite games! I wish there were more games with the same mix of stealth and strategy being made.