As a man sitting in front of me shrieked delightedly to his date, right after Vernon Wells' burly henchman Bennett got electrocuted on a fence and it only made him madder, "It's a motherf-g cartoon!" "Commando" might be the first entirely postmodern action thriller, serving up many of the cliches that audiences saw in "Rambo, First Blood Part II" four months earlier (including close-ups of a glistening muscleman strapping on weapons) but putting a half-mocking spin on them. There are jokes in the script about red meat and macho b.s., but they're mainly in there so the film can wallow in the things it decries. From the instant that Arnie made his entrance in "Commando," clomping through a forest with a chainsaw in his right hand and a giant log on his oiled left bicep, you knew you were watching a film that was in on its own joke-and in case you weren't convinced, the film had its hero row to the final showdown in a Speedo. As a historical witness (cue Civil War fiddle music-or maybe Horner's turtle drums) I can testify that yes, "Commando" was a big deal-not just because it was continuously violent (hundreds of killings) and mordantly funny ("I lied"), but because any viewer with eyes could see that Schwarzenegger was already putting his own distinctive spin on the persona he'd created with James Cameron. I'm the right age to have seen all of the now-nearly-canonized 1980s R-rated adventures (including this one, the Rambo pictures, " Aliens," " Predator" and " Die Hard") in first-run theaters. Even though he played a villain in the latter, he imported his signature moves and performance tics into the role of a stoic meat-slab trying to save his daughter from Latin American death squads and their mercenaries.
Nonetheless, the need to use all three characters to complete each mission does give it a new touch.A perfect engine of meaningless destruction, "Commando" followed Arnold Schwarzenegger's breakthrough hit "The Terminator" by less than a year. The variety of missions is incredible, even though, taking into account the amount of video games set in WWII in the last few years, we have probably seen more or less the same thing quite a few times. Exactly the same as in the original Commandos, but now in an FPS. We will only control one of the characters at a time, but the game consists in changing between all three of them to complete the mission. An entertaining FPS from the Commandos sagaĬommandos: Strike Force is a game where we will use three characters based on the original main characters from the saga, a Green Beret, a Spy and a Sniper, each one with his own set of skills and options. A complete FPS set in the Second World War, but still maintaining the Commandos flavor. But there comes a time when it is necessary to change and evolve, and Commandos: Strike Force is exactly that, the logical evolution.
The Commandos saga has a place of privilege among strategy games as one of the most renowned sagas, managing to mix action, stealth and millimetric mission planning in the same game.