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Summary: Good but buggy
Review: I love this game. You get many historic weapons and you get to kill Nazis. What more could you ask for? Very fun campaigns and the graphics are beautiful. Sniping and close quarters combat are both really good. One of my favorite missions was waiting at the extraction point for the Lancaster that's coming to pick you up, and holding out against hordes of Germans. My squad and I are machine gunning them and sniping them as they try to kill us. Now let me complain. I wish we could use the machine gun more often. The Germans are almost never out in the open in mass numbers waiting to be sent to the meat grinder. Also on my computer, the game freezes for a second or two at vital points, allowing the German to blow me away before I can react. It's very annoying. You'll need a lot of patience too, because you will be loading and reloading saved games like there's no tomorrow on some missions. And those saved games sometimes take a while to load up, and you may just end up getting blown away again in the first few seconds of your load, especially at the laggy parts of the game, where the graphics are real intense. Despite these flaws, Hidden and Dangerous is a fun WWII commandos game with many good points.
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Summary: Holy Crap! This is one good game!
Review: I started the first mission w/ a heavy machine gun and came running in. This realistic game did what would happen in real life. I got blown away. I was appawled(however you spell it)at how good the graphics were. The rain was falling, sounds were everwhere, and the AI makes you feel like you're taking on Hitler's army. Each gun has it's own charecteristics(sounds and all)for everyone. And you can salvage all sorts of goodies from dead german soldiers. After being mauled on the first time i figured out what to do. Like in real life you don't know what's coming up. So you move in (crawling) checking the area with binoculars(spelled incorrectly)for soldiers. Then you tell your men(which I will mention later)what to do based on your intelligence of the situation. I'm not going to give a walkthrough. But your pals are so intelleligent it's breath taking. When fired upon they get down and return fire. In many other tactical/strategy games other figures are semi intelligent. In Hidden and Dangerous a shot German means they begin to hunt you down. If you miss your comrades take shots to and life gets hecktick. There is no right way to do it. WWII you have to learn how to live. Sorta makes you think how real soldiers pulled off the same missions except they couldn't go back and try again. The second to last mission gives a Saving Private Ryan sorta feeling. When moving through a city, snipers can be anywhere imaginable. Church towers, houses, hills, and anywhere. Sure the game has bugs here and there but most people don't update to version 1.3. Get the patch at the Talon soft website. If you really get stuck order the player's guide. That's about it. I havent mentioned half the good things about this game. For $20.00 (which is very underpriced)you will have fun. As the SAS say "Who Dares Wins."
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Summary: "HIDDEN" and "DANGEROUS"
Review: I'm walking down this bridge on a rainy night. There's a Nazi soldier somewhere up ahead on a hill or something. I get him in my sights. The soldier has his back to me and I'm several hundred yards away, and SOMEHOW he snaps 180 and pops me one in the head. So much for being Hidden. Dangerous? From what I've heard about this game, your team members are about as lethal as the enemy. They'll walk through fire, step on their OWN landmines, and fire their bazooka even if you're in the way. I played the demo of this game and I wasn't at all impressed. If you want to play a really good war game, try Operation Flashpoint. I've only tried the demo of that, but that's all they have. Unlike many of you, I didn't have any problems with bugs. The maps before the battles were nicely done. This game gets an A for atmosphere. Graphics were okay, but nothing eye-jolting. You can find this game pretty cheap. If I were you, I'd pass and wait for Operation Flashpoint.
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Summary: THIS GAME IS SO COOL!
Review: In Hidden and Dangerous you pick up the enemy equipment, drive just about anything you see (even civilian cars!),you pick your own team, there is about 25 people to chose from, and there is a ton of stuff you can equip them with, rangeing from anti-personel mines to heavy machine guns! You can pick up enemy weapons, and then use them on other misssions! Also, there is 6 different campaigns each with about missions. If you like action/strategy (mostly action) get this game now!!!!!
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Summary: Pretty good!
Review: ITs a good game! If you've ever played the game Medal of Honor and u liked that then i KNOW youll love this. its weapons are to scale and have the same accuracy as the real counterparts. its fun entertaining and not all the typical missions from other video games. I think u should get it!
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Summary: A mission for every type of engagment you could think of.
Review: My friend and I have been longing for a game like this for years. And finally in the Summer of '99, Illusion Softworks, a Czech-based software company, has created such a game. One of my favorite missions is an assault on a bunker base defended by a network of trenches and MG34 machine guns. Now which movie did that come from? The final mission is awesome. Sneak thru an airfield at the end of the war with the Russians attacking on the other side.Sound effects are great. Makes you feel like you're there. As with the airfield mission, you see anti-aircraft fire snake thru the sky, just like Baghdad, BABY! Granted the initial release had many, many bugs. But with several patches most bugs have been worked out. Be sure and get the v1.3 patch which has seemed to fix some problems that v1.2 created. i.e. The M41 Rifle now fires again, but with a 5-round clip which is historically accurate anyway. In v1.2 it wanted to reload without ever shooting. Soldier AI has been greatly improved on both sides as well. However, the dead bodies still just hang in mid-air if shot on slanted terrain. Mouse sensitivity has been improved also. I'm awaiting the new Devil's Bridge add-on coming around the end of the month which will take the campaigns to locales like Greece, Poland and Battle of the Buldge. This add-on includes 9 new missions across 3 huge campaigns.
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Summary: you need patience
Review: The first thing that struck me about this game is the incredible graphics and sound put you right there, first person. You can hear what is going on in the many different enviroments you are placed in. You can hear the different kind of sound a footstep makes if you are in snow or on pavement or walking on a tiled floor in a German occupied home. The detail is incredible. You do need a fairly fast computer to keep up with this sometimes fast paced game. And there are some problems with the game freezing up on you or falling through the floor and dying. You can install a patch to fix this or make sure that you buy version 1.2 and it is already fixed. Stealth is the key to winning in this game so you need to take your time and think things through. This game gives you the flexability to use your own imagination and ingenuity to get out of situations on the battlefield. You can use tanks, halftracks, motorcycles, cars, etc. As well as dozens of types of German and American weapons. You can also dial up via modem and connect to other gamers and play together while communicating with them by pressing f4 on your keyboard and typing them a message. You have options of multple players by using a network connection or can play with one other by direct dial up. You may need to buy the handbook to this game if it is not included in the 1.2 version. It will come in handy if you need directions on how to use the multyplayer options. Many other military games do not give you the options of Playing in first or 3rd person, or the free will to explore your environment and take items that will be usefull to you on the battlefield so take your time and look for things in buildings, closets, etc. It takes time to get through some levels but you can save your game and start off where you left off.
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Summary: Attention all snipers
Review: The game is great fun and well done with a few draw backs. You can get caught with your pants down if you forget to bring the proper equiptment on the mission. You have to start all the way back. I would have given the game 5 stars if it did not have this problem. It is not fast paced but very stealth oriented. Hopefully the new game will solve the having to restart problem.
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Summary: Attention all snipers
Review: The game is great fun and well done with a few draw backs. You can get caught with your pants down if you forget to bring the proper equiptment on the mission. You have to start all the way back. I would have given the game 5 stars if it did not have this problem. It is not fast paced but very stealth oriented. Hopefully the new game will solve the having to restart problem.
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Summary: A Hidden Treasure
Review: The most remarkable thing to me is that this game has been overlooked by so many in the gaming community. In execution this game is brilliant especially considering that it is several years old. The graphics are as good as anything I have seen and better than many games which others have given high praise. The attention to detail is mindboggling. When running across a snow covered field you will notice that your soldier leaves footprints, havent seen that before in a game. Even the likeness of the soldiers matches the portrait in their biographical data, most games have the same boxlike visage, making all sprites look generic. The sound effects are excellent. Each weapon has a unique audio as do all of the various vehicles which your team can operate. Even the crunch of snow underfoot or rain pelting on the roof of a car will impress. Atmosphere is greatly enhanced by a remarkable soundtrack, the best I have heard in a game to date, not at all annoying or overpowering as in some games, it fades in and out as befitting the action. The acoustics from a radio in a train station or a night club singer from an open door will make you stop and savour the moment. The game operates similar to Rainbow Six but without the need to pre-plot. The way you conceive your attack is entirely flexible. This is the game's strong-point. If you decide that the selected route is too hazardous it is possible to bypass it. In several missions the route is hampered by steep rock. I have managed to get my boys to climb the sides of mountains and hit the enemy were they least expect it. Its like playing a video version of Force Ten from Navarone. Each mission begins with selecting your hand picked team and assigning them weapons. These are essential to completing some scenarios as without a bazooka you will not take out a tank. Your men can use as many weapons as they are capable of carrying unlike other games were you MUST select Either/Or. Thankfully you may also let the AI pick the weapons for you. During play you can pillage the Germans of their weapons and these captured armaments will be carried over into the next round and if truth be told it has to be stated that the germans have some of the better "stuff". There have been problems with bugs but nothing of a game spoiling nature. In some scenarios weapons will mysteriously vanish from your hands and render your soldier helpless.This happens only in first person view. To counteract this you may either re-arm by hitting the enter key or by toggling the point of view (there are three available) This should make the weapon reappear. When this happens during a firefight it is usually fatal so learn to save often.When negotiating steep terrain occasionally your man will become "stuck" and begin to rotate like a spinning top. He will not be able to move in any direction and will sometimes fall through the playing surface (into the great black abyss) and die. To avoid this try getting him to change his "stance". I have gotten out of this predicament by making him either kneel or lie down. This is one of the few games which I have not even considered trashing out of frustration, which is a rare thing for me. For the price to fun ratio I doubt if you could find a better game indeed I'm certain of that fact.
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