Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines is a real-time tactics game set in World War II that puts you in command of a small squad of elite troopers. Send them behind enemy lines on a series of hazardous missions, and bring them back alive.

Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines is a strategy, stealth and tactical game developed by Pyro Studios and published by Kalypso Media Digital.
Released on March 15th 2007 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 3,717 reviews of which 3,341 were positive and 376 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.


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Windows
Minimum
  • IBM PC or 100% compatible
  • Windows 9X/ME
  • Pentium II 300 MHz (or equivalent)
  • 64 MB RAM
  • 100% DirectX® 8 compatible 3D Accelerator card with at least 12 MB VRAM 100% DirectX® 8 compatible (or higher) Sound card
  • DirectX® 8 (DirectX 8.0a included)
  • 2 GB uncompressed hard drive space
  • 100% Windows 95/98 compatible Keyboard and Mouse

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Dec. 2024
Commandos - Behind Enemy Lines, what can I say about this game that marked my childhood (I still have the original CD)? It's simply fascinating... With a group of elite soldiers in your hands, you help the Allied forces defeat the Nazi Germans in World War II! Now for a game from 1998, the graphics, even though they are isometric... It's acceptable Each elite soldier has his role, which I think is very good The gameplay is ok... But you have to know what you're going to do by clicking to avoid dying And don't expect a game with this theme to be easy, because it's not... The game is extremely difficult and you have to create a lot of strategy Nowadays with Windows 7, 8.1, 10 and 11... the game has some very low fps outside of the standard, but it's playable if you have patience It's a shame that this franchise was put on ice and only remained in the memories of many who played it! If you are a gamer who likes games of this theme, you might like Commandos 1 there
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Nov. 2024
Oh childhood, great old game. The gameplay is still as great as ever.
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Oct. 2024
The one and original stealth tactics game. One of my all time favorites, ever since i got a 2 mission demo with pc gamer magazine when it released. Bit archaic by today's standards, but this will never get old for me. Must try for anyone into the current genre revival
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Sept. 2024
This was my childhood game, although I cracked it back then. I didn’t dare to play it at the time, just sat and watched my dad play. Back then, I was like his biggest fan. Now I can afford to buy the full version of this game and confidently play it, but unfortunately, he’s no longer here to see it. I bought this game to play again and to keep some memories of my childhood. Dad, I miss you <3
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June 2024
I was a kid when this game came out and I found it way too difficult to quickly complete missions. It was during a time when I was fine with clicking instead of memorising hotkeys. Then Commandos 2 was released and because of its 3D graphics it was a blast! Swimming, rotating the screen, getting indoors?! Amazing! Of the trilogy the only one I left out was part number 3. I also enjoyed Desperados that came out a couple of years after Commandos . Controlling a special unit but now in spaghetti western style. What is Commandos about? It focuses on a special unit that is entrusted with completing dangerous missions during WW II. There are six soldiers specialised in various tasks and you control them in this tactical, stealth-based RTS that is played from an isometric perspective. Do you need to climb the wall? Pick the Green Beret for that. Do you need to cross a river to reach your mission objective? Pick the Marine and use his inflatable boat. Too many enemies patrolling an important area? Order your Spy to cause some distraction. Overall, we have 6 special soldiers to command (not all of them are provided for each mission). So why play this one now? Because a 4th episode titled Origins is currently in the works and it is set to be released this year. The developer is different since Pyro Studios has long become defunct. I was interested in finding out if this one worked under Win 11 since this is the only one out of the original 3 episodes that didn't get a remaster. How does such a game fare? It is certainly very interesting. In the options menu you can set the resolution, the A.I. of your soldiers and the volume. There are tutorial videos you can watch - they are pretty informative and while their resolution is very low they do the job they were meant to do. But to make things easier your best bet is to hit F1 when in-game to see all the hotkeys available (soldier-specific actions are explained separately). Scrolling the screen is relatively slow and there is no higher resolution than 1280x960 but at least this is widescreen. This is only just the basics - under the guide section on Steam there are many mods or fixes available for setting the resolution to a much higher value including 4K I think. There is also a mod adding additional missions to the game. I have not experienced any crashes but please note that I only completed the first two missions. Once a mission is finished we are given a rank - I do not know if the Steam version has the high rank requirement for us to be able to access the 20th (last) mission. Commandos was a blast back in 1998. I played part 2 a lot and I was saddened to hear the developer studio was no more. Until Origins is released feel free to pick up this one (or any of the sequels and their remasters).
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Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines
8.7
3,341
376
Online players
84
Developer
Pyro Studios
Publisher
Kalypso Media Digital
Release 15 Mar 2007
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