Launched in 1999, Hidden & Dangerous helped lead the explosion type tactical shooter. careful planning, coordination of team and spirit just a murder that have come to define the type and put the dark days of World War II was necessary. You control commands that are affected by the heat of the British Special Air Service, fighting the Axis attack with brains and stealth as firepower. Despite its advantages, they suffered significant weaknesses Hidden and Dangerous, like swarms of insects, confusing menus and controls, and simply nonsense, as the characters die, when several feet fell. Now the developer Illusion Softworks is back with a sequel, Hidden & Dangerous 2, which in turn puts the boots of bodies performing SAS daring missions behind enemy lines. Surprisingly, despite the period of four years, this new game is very spoiled by the same types of errors that damage the original. This is a shame, because if there were no such problems, Hidden & Dangerous 2 could take its place among the elite shooters WWII.One of the first things you learn about Hidden & Dangerous 2 is that it can be very hard work and it is more convenient for the patient and tolerant players. Almost everything takes longer than it should or is it more complicated than necessary. Consider the menu. If you are like many players, one of the first things you do when you start the game
options to develop your taste. When it comes to options control, you will find page after page of monitoring missions. No quick reference card, or a page in the manual all these elements, so you may want to copy down hand for reference, constantly jump back to the settings menu, or search data scattered throughout the long manual. What's worse is that a mistake can be extremely difficult to change the basic missions of your choice.You'll quickly find that the problems are not limited to the control settings. Throughout the game, many parts of the interface and controls are cumbersome or confusing at first. Games like Splinter Cell have shown how you can enjoy the complex movements of the characters with simple and intuitive controls. These teachings were lost in Hidden & Dangerous 2, where they find themselves constantly fumbling or playing with a lot of controls to change the positions of the movement, thin, wide objects, the change of focus in the same premises "iron" from the weapon, handle inventory, give orders, and more. You can easily spend as much time micromanaging facing enemies detected in other shooters, which requires less pressing button and menu navigation. The reaction time is vital, too, because the enemies are good shots in this game. To make matters worse, the movement itself, and even out of the question of the complexity of control can be dangerous for the health of your character: It is very easy to fall from the stairs to her death.One of the most interesting features of Hidden & Dangerous 2 is the ability to control up to four characters at once. You can immediately check each character through a view first or third person. That the character can give simple voice commands or gestures ( "follow me", "fire at will", and so on) to fellow troops. In addition, you can pause the action and switch to an aerial map where you create parts reference, speed of movement, posture, and so forth for the men.SWAT tactical shooters like Rainbow Six 3 and the series have shown how you can control multiple characters on smoothly and effectively, either in real time or via premission design. Not so easy to Hidden & Dangerous 2. The interface is a bit cumbersome, but more importantly, their AI-controlled allies often make seemingly stupid things. They can take strange pathfinding decisions, trapped in small obstacles or vehicles that block or each other in tight spaces, not to shoot enemies in the same room, standing in the line of fire from the other without moving, take a stroll the ocean and drown unnecessarily, and perform other acts of madness maddening. The game is very often work as guide them repeatedly for his men.The missions are already very difficult, so these problems, together with major mistakes can really test your patience. A
level that should be offered 20 minutes stretched exciting adventure through a test two hours of forced labor, repetitions, crashes, and overall dungeon. errors scripts can perform almost impossible over a series of missions, requiring much effort.If you wish, you can play missions in a way "lone wolf" where to address just to avoid some of the problems of the four men control. However, part of the fun of Hidden & Dangerous 2 should be ideal for the use of all men as far as possible. Usually it is a work of patience stretch, but when it does work, it is rewarding. You can choose from a variety of people, each with a capacity for health, stealth, shooting, and other features that can increase after successful missions. You will want to carefully decide how to use their troops to make the most of their potential. In addition, each person can only carry a limited amount of equipment, and usually last through multiple missions in successive minicampaigns. Therefore, you need to select your equipment carefully before you begin and then decide how to juggle with figures for the catch from fallen enemies.Hidden & Dangerous 2 has an impressive range of equipment and weapons, such as knives, guns, bolt action and semi-automatic rifles, several mines and explosives, cameras, compasses, cutter, and more. The weapons are modeled after real weapons of the Second World War, so you can find the famous M1 Garand and MP 40 between the arms less familiar with the rifle Arisaka Japanese Meiji 38.20 missions from Norway in winter which leads to the desert of North Africa to the jungles of Burma in the heart of occupied Europe. Some works are fantasy themes, generic, simple, small raids on bases where they go around and blast all the bad guys. A mission is particularly convincing in the context of the game: four
bodies to eliminate an entire people extended enemies. Many of the missions require too much trial and error. Fortunately, many missions are also very colorful and exciting. In one, penetrate a research center to photograph the secret ingredients and then to destroy the country. You can escape around quietly, knife in hand, ready to send guards. The intensity increases all the time as soon avoid a soldier walking down the hall toward you or have almost stumbled right two scientists discuss their work. a tangible sense of being pushed into the mouth of the wolf reached. During these missions, you also get to take advantage of the masquerade system unusually detailed game that requires a lot of attention from your side. Each part of the uniform and visible group should be a common question enemy, and even then, lurking enemies too long, you will catch a crook.Some of the other fun missions all tear on vehicles, as when commanding a bulletproof vehicle in an Italian airbase and start blasting their planes to dissolve. During a thrilling adventure, which roar through a canyon in a German bomber ordered fighters to search. Williams style with blaring music and hands John jingle, she feels like something right out of an Indiana Jones movie.One thing almost all missions to do well is to create a lively, beautifully detailed settings. In the abovementioned research center, you will find aerodynamics test chambers latest fashion design tables, propaganda posters on the walls, and many small objects that bring the rooms to life. All buildings are considered as real, they lived in places, and not just a
bunch planting rooms to fight with guards. To add credibility, the game allows you to listen to long conversations between enemy soldiers or scientists. If you know the appropriate languages, some of them can be interesting or funny, as when a German scientist snub a guard at length about the negligence and then gives a scolding more to make excuses. (Dialogue Vital is subtitled for your convenience.)Hidden & Dangerous 2 sports some gorgeous graphics and powerful sound to give these data added impact. The graphics engine can not be in the same peak, but make sure that the developers made good use of. The textures are definitely some of the best yet appeared in a game with a wonderful diversity and attention to detail, from the frozen coating of a submarine in Norway canyon walls almost photorealistic Africa to dry blades of grass in a Czech town. Small details such as footprints left in the mud, playing cards scattered on a table barracks and colorful fall autumn trees add to dipping sheets. Strong, powerful sound effects bring firearms to life, even suitable derivative orchestral soundtrack adds to the atmosphere. Many of the transcripts is much above average, and the scenes are directed dramatically.Along with the great single player campaign offers Hidden & Dangerous ways three multiplayer: each-for-himself deathmatch-man, a way based on objective, and a way of territorial control to remember the day of defeat or the scope of battle 1942. feature these details some interesting questions, but like the single player mode, multiplayer dwarfed
by the major mistakes that can be hard to connect, much less actually play. Moreover, there is no cooperative mode, and this is a game that screams for him, as it might help you avoid many problems with the AI.In a word, Hidden & Dangerous 2 is disappointing. It is often frustrating to play, and it is frustrating to see that there is clearly a wonderful game hidden between big mistakes, cumbersome controls, questionable AI and other defects. When everything is working properly, Hidden & Dangerous 2 can provide an immersive, exciting mix of strategy and action set in wonderful convincing. There are plenty of entertainment to be found in this game, but you have to wade through a lot of trouble to get to it.
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