The iconic real-time tactics series is returning with Commandos: Origins, coming to PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC in 2024. The game will also be coming to Xbox Game Pass.
With a name like Commandos: Origins, it might sound like this game is going to take us back to when the characters from the original games were all in secondary school and military training, but that’s not quite what they have planned. This is still an origin story, but it’s for how the Commandos were united on their first set of missions, with Green Beret, Sapper and the rest of the gang going from the Arctic to Africa through “more than” 10 missions.
Here’s the bullet point breakdown:
- Challenging Real Time Tactical Stealth Gameplay:
Make the best use of your Commandos’ unique abilities, infiltrate enemy facilities and hit them where it hurts most before disappearing into the shadows. - An extraordinary team:
Featuring 6 infamous characters, each with their own storied history, banding together to form an extraordinary fighting force – the Commandos: Take control over Jack O’Hara “the Green Beret”, Thomas “the Sapper” Hancock, Francis T. “the Sniper” Woolridge, Samuel “the Driver” Brooklyn, James “the Marine” Blackwood, and Rene “the Spy” Duchamp and lead them to success. - Many paths to victory:
The detailed, varied and interactive environments offer multiple approaches to reach your goal. Sneak, climb, drive in various vehicles, or hide and creep your way to mission success! - On your mark:
A modern user experience with precise and intuitive controls enables you to control the commandos with expert precision. Coordinate complex actions simultaneously to overcome heavily fortified targets. - Fight on all fronts:
Play through more than 10 missions in historically authentic WWII environments, spanning from the barren Arctic to the African desert, with a range of core and voluntary objectives that will require your full tactical expertise. - There is no I in team:
Take on missions with a friend in the 2-player cooperative multiplayer mode, either online or via local split-screen.
It’s coming up on two decades since the series’ heyday in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but it’s always been considered a cult classic, with tough as nails missions and plenty of tactical shenanigans to get up to. Interest has been rekindled in recent times thanks to HD remasters and console ports of Commandos 2 and Commandos 3 in 2020 and 2022 respectively.
With original studio Pyro having long faded from memory, its new IP owner Kalypso Media that commissioned the HD remasters by Raylight Games. They’re changing things up for this effective series reboot, with Claymore Game Studios the developer.
