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"Commandos 3 demo available."

Not sure what it's like because I'm at work so can't play it.
*duh*

Loved Commandos 2 though, but the talk of end-of-level bosses has me concerned. My history is shaky, but I don't remember reading about giant robo-Hitlers during WWII.

http://www.avault.com/pcrl/demo_temp.asp?game=comm3db
265.14MB

Okay, I won't bother. Cheers cipro. You've probably saved me some time and precious hard drive space. :)

Grandprix wrote:
> So, do you think it's worth spending my time downloading 265MB?

Nah, don't bother. Boring tutorial mode and an unspiring train level is all that will be waiting for you. Save your hard drive space for something more worth while.

Meh, uninstalled it. I was hoping the demo would improve, but it seemed to have gotten worse the futhur along I went. The new 3D environments are great looking, but you can only move left or right and zoom in and out, there's no option to look overhead which does cause problems since you view gets blocked often.

Also, which of the development team thought it would be a good idea to make all the Germans weapons fire from such a long distance, but make your guns only capable of shooting a couple of feet in front of you? Not even when you pick up a German weapon can you match this, which makes the combat of this game terribly hard. Christ knows how they are going to implement it in the full version.

The stealth bits also got a tad annoying, sneaking around on a train and knocking out Germans is particular hard, especially in such cramped levels, but what I don't get its that you can punch a German to the ground and not have an alarm raised even though another German is sitting down just across from you. Stupid.

Might be worth a try, but only when it's on budget. And screw Pyro for messing with such a great stealth game by trying to make it more exciting. They'd better fix this for Commandos 4, if there will ever be a third sequel.

So, do you think it's worth spending my time downloading 265MB?

Played a little bit of it and I'm still not sure. The interface and controls have been changed slightly which I found a tad bit annoying because I know the controls for Commandos 2 off by heart. The demo level itself is slightly more face paced than previous commandos games, it's set on a moving train and you have clear it out of German troops.

The stealth part still works fine and the new 3D in-door environments look great this time around, but to me this game still doesn't match the quality of the last commandos, not by a long shot. Still, I haven't got very far yet, so my mind could change and I'm nterested in seeing how the D-Day landings in the full game will work.

Doesn't work with Windows 98 SE edition anyway as all I get is the game refreshing back to my desktop...

Was looking forward to it as well.

Not sure about this game, the second one was great, but I'm just not convinced about these end-of level bosses and swapping of stealth orientated game-play for more action. Still at least we get to try a demo this time, I rember the never released a demo for Commandos 2 because the one Pyro provided was too big.

33% done. Woo. I'll tell you later if it's any good. If I actually get round to finishing the download.

Goatboy wrote:
> Not sure what it's like because I'm at work so can't play it.
> *duh*

So it's not worth downloading?