Will you need to rescue hostages or destroy an enemy camp? Fight battles and see the world in both 1st and 3rd person perspectives. In this intense action game you will find your snipering, shooting and recon skills are pushed to the max.With Hidden and Dangerous you can embark on 26 missions in WWII.
Hidden & Dangerous The year is 1941. Your special forces team has been shot down deep inside enemy territory and it's now reliant on your cunning. Hidden and Dangerous 2 is a stealth-based shooter that lets you control a team of British commandos from either first-person or third-person perspectives. The game spans the entire length of the Second World War, including hotspots in North Africa, Norway, Central Europe, Burma and even a Nazi castle hidden high in the Austrian Alps.
Choose squad-based or strategic combat.Fight these battles in European play fields like Germany and Italy. Challenge yourself even further by varying difficulty settings Hidden and Dangerous Review- Review by Dylan. Stealth ShooterHidden and Dangerous, a WWII stealth-style game, has you secretly breaching the lines of the German defense. In this game you man up to 4 soldiers a round and your goal is to accomplish the given objectives as quietly and secretly as possible.
Manning only one soldier at a time can be difficult when going against the overwhelming German defense, so you must be stealthy and smart to get the job done.This stealth-style war game is a combination of an RPG and action shooter game. In it you control most every option from which soldier you want to use, to the weapons and grenades you want to suit him with.
You control the fighting styles as well as the secretive attack and invasion.Choose Soldiers, Weapons, and Get To ItIn each level of the game you choose your fighters and their weaponry. You compete with up to four fighters and can cycle through which characters you control with the TAB key. Only the player you have selected advances and moves. The other players do not have any AI and are controlled solely by you, selected through “tabbing” over to them.As you start play a short video guide plays, giving you valuable information about the objectives and ways you'll need to complete the level.
In the first level for example, you must cross a rickety bridge in order to infiltrate the enemy lines. This strategy and objective is nicely laid out for you in the brief tutorial movie, making finishing the level much easier. As you play you man one of the four characters you brought to the level.
You move your character with the WASD keys (forward, left, backward, right) and aim and move your head with the mouse.Third Person View Can DetractThis game, unlike most action shooters, is set in the third person view mode. This is nice for navigating; however, when you are faced with taking down an opponent, shooting and aiming from the third person is difficult if not nearly impossible. Even with the helpful aiming line, shooting a target is outstandingly difficult. If you do in fact fall victim to the German defense (very likely because the enemies are unrealistically accurate with their shooting) you “tab” to the next soldier in your lot and resume where you left off.Since there is not AI that maneuvers the other soldiers while you play, you will have to guide your soldier from the beginning of the map, which is tedious and takes awhile depending how far into the level you are.Decent Technical Features For An Older GameThe graphics and audio qualities of the game are pretty good, especially for an older game.
The levels, though at times may appear very blocky, are unique and well designed. Often times you might find them to be too dark, however, this isn't a huge deal and it adds to the realism.The sound effects of the game are pretty good as well. The background music adds to the intensity of the game, getting more suspenseful when things get hairy. Also, the effects of the weapons and the explosives add to the realism. Though all the characters sound the same, this is easily forgotten by the orchestra creating suspenseful music.Some Fatal FlawsThough Hidden and Dangerous is a free download, there are some flaws that make this feel like it deserves to be free, or like you should be paid to play it. For starters the game's interface is way too complicated and hard to get started. For just starting a game you will have to go through about five or six menus, choose your weapons, and add your characters etc.
This is great for options, however, getting started takes five minutes, which is way too long. If there was a button that would speed up the process (default settings) the game would be much easier to start and play.The second of crucial errors is navigating the map. Though you are given a brief tutorial video explaining the layout, there is no in-game map to refer to. This makes getting lost or turned around an option, especially if you missed or forget the pre-level video.Another flaw of the game is aiming.
Aiming through a third person perspective is nearly impossible. Even with the “helpful” aiming aid, lining up the enemy, especially in a quick manner, can't be done. Your inability to aim will lead to unavoidable deaths, which can be frustrating especially later in the game.Conclusion - Some Critical Drawbacks Weight This Game DownOverall Hidden and Dangerous is fair. Its saving grace is that it's free. In it you will have to infiltrate the German defense as stealthily as possible. This is a great game idea, which is enhanced by the suspenseful symphonic music and great graphics. However, not being able to aim, navigate with an in-game map, or quickly play due to the way too extensive interface, takes a lot out of this game.This game is good for players on a budget, or those looking for a third person shooter game.
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It wasn't looking good for Sergeant Lynch. He'd been sent by his cowardly teammates to plant a mine right under the nose of a Nazi Panzer, there was sand in his boxer shorts and blood in his mouth. But they were never going to complete the level with that hunk of metal in the way, and Lieutenant Tarantino's hand had been bitten by some desert bug, rendering him incapable of crawling right up to the tank and laying a deathtrap. Testicles still lodged in the upper part of his throat, Sergeant Lynch completed his glorious task and shimmied back to his colleagues.
The tank's not moving,' said Sergeant Faulkner. Bugger, said Lynch. The other sergeant got his sniper rifle out, spat into the sand and aimed at the foot of the tank. Several shots later, the mine lay unexploded and the Panzer was still sitting pretty. Hello, chaps,' said Sergeant Whedon, arriving from his infiltration of a nearby warehouse. Look what I found.' He laid two bazookas at their feet like a dog with a pair of slobbered slippers. Blimey,' said Lynch. But who was going to get close enough to stick one up the Hun's backside?
It's moments like these, totally unscripted and unpredictable, that make Hidden & Dangerous 2 an absolute joy to play. Or at least it is when you're not frothing with rage and frustration at a seemingly impossible assignment or a badly timed bug.
OK, so you'll have to add in your own pedestrian bits of dialogue, but the between-mission cut-scenes give your soldiers enough of a Boy's Own feel to last you a good while. And yes, you read right, high difficulty and bugs are still present, though not as rampantly as in the original.This sequel has been in the works for years, so it's a real shame that it's been released in a less than fully polished state: guns and characters floating, soldiers getting stuck in the scenery, suddenly not being able to shoot and even a crash or two. Illusion is already hard at work on a patch (which may already be out by the time you read this), but it's surely the publisher who's to blame. Why not wait till Christmas to release it, unless it's because Half-Life 2 had been delayed and they spotted a hole in the market? Who knows?
Still, as I said, the bugs are nowhere near as terminal as those in the first H&D, and the game is so hugely enjoyable that we want to forgive it and hope the patch fixes all.
H&D2 uses the same engine that powered Mafia, the most criminally underrated shooter of the past few years. It has the same attention to detail and the same gripping firefights, though it looks considerably better and, on some levels, nothing short of stunning.
Once again, you choose a squad of four from a large pool of soldiers, each with their own strength, endurance and skills in shooting, stealth, first aid and lock picking. A very nice touch, so simple yet rarely used by developers, is that you can rename your SAS members (hence my crack team of film directors and novelists). This, coupled with the way their stats improve after each mission, lets you get close to your team and feel their death as a real loss.And sometimes you will have to make sacrifices. Because most missions are so tough and because you only have one save slot (which you can overwrite whenever you like), you may find that your 14th attempt is successful, but that your best medic is a bloody corpse. Not that you can afford to lose too many men. Your group of four has to last for the duration of each campaign before you can bring in new faces.
While you will die a lot and swear your lungs out more, even the most difficult situations can usually be solved by clever and tactical thinking. Illusion never resorts to making the enemies infallible or outrageously numbered. The one exception is a mission in which you have to cross the desert. There are planes flying above ready to shoot you down if you get out of your jeep, and halfway through the path (from which you can't stray due to the numerous mines outside it) you encounter a tank that chases you as you try to backtrack and blows you to hell. Finding missiles and then managing to get close enough to fire at the tank without it seeing you first (nowhere to hide in a desert) or the planes mowing you down, is exasperating beyond words.
And then one of my men would decide to waste a precious missile firing at a plane and I would have to start again. As you may have guessed, the Al is not without hitches. A lot of the time your team does exactly what you tell them to (follow, attack, hold position, lay down covering fire etc), often sees and kills enemies before you know what's going on and even tells you when you're in their line of fire. Other times they'll shoot when you've told them not to or walk when you want them to run.
The enemy can be erratic too. Sometimes they act completely human, missing the target if startled, retreating and surrendering. Other times they fail to hear gunfire or can home in on your head through thick vegetation. No doubt some of these issues are bugs, and will hopefully be sorted soon.
To help you cope with some of the harder missions, you can bring up a top-down 3D RTS display, where you can set waypoints, stance and speed. It's sometimes hard to get them to do exactly what you had in mind though, and I would have preferred more options, like covering a particular area. Others will make more use of this screen than me. I preferred to scout ahead with my sniper and then bring the rest over when needed, only occasionally using the tactical display to outflank enemies.
You can actually play through the whole game in Lone Wolf mode but, as you can imagine, the difficulty is multiplied. It does add to the incredible variety on offer though. The environments are startlingly different, from the stark African dunes to dense Burmese jungles (so, so much better than Vietcong's), from beautiful icebergs to awe-inspiring Austrian hills. These are so beautiful in fact, that the Austrian tourist board might want to use them for promotional purposes. Though they might want to edit out the bloodthirsty Nazis.
The gameplay is just as varied: stealth missions, full-on assaults, scuba-diving and even a great defend-the-oasis-fortress-in-the-desert level. And each requires a very different tactical approach.
The attention to realism draws you in completely (until one of those bugs comes along), with weight restrictions, scope drift, and the ability to shoot through canvas or wooden walls. You also get out of breath if you run too much. As if I didn't get enough of that in real life.
Donning a disguise is just as realistic: the uniform has to be taken from a surrendered soldier so there's no bulletholes or blood stains. All exposed weaponry has to be bona fide too (although the Al's talent for spotting non-Nazi behaviour or a non-issue knife is a little over the top).Multiplayer looks great too (Illusion promises it's less buggy) and some of the maps could offer truly classic online moments. We'll have to wait until the servers are up and running to test them fully though, something we'll be doing in a future issue. There won't be any vehicles online, which are so much fun in singleplayer, because apparently they'd end up unbalancing these maps. You already have Battlefield 1942 for that anyway.
It's just a shame H&D2 wasn't released in a more polished and bug-free state. If that had happened, and the tactical screen had proved more useful, we'd be looking at a full-on classic. It's still a must for anyone looking for a real challenge though. It's a worthy WWII companion to Mafia, and the best tactical shooter available. Tally-ho!
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