Main Concept: This game was a third person squad based shooter for the PC, which right away is what leads to some of its downfall. Third Person + PC does not work at all.
Hidden and Dangerous is one of the many WW2 games that have come out over the last generation of gaming consoles. This game came out when the PSX Medal of Honor games were popular, so a WW2 game was welcome back then. Now today however World War Two games have to have something about them that makes them special and different from the rest. This game was a third person squad based shooter for the PC, which right away is what leads to some of its downfall. Third Person + PC does not work at all. That is what makes this game so completely unplayable. But hey, this game is a free download.
This game has some pretty nice graphics considering the time that it came out. They must have been pretty top-notch back in 1999, but anyway this is definitely the game's strong point. This game is a very nice looking game. The presentation is very nice as well. By the presentation I mean that the briefings are done well. They are very innovative, and its nice to see that back then someone got something right and did not make you have to read your briefing, but it was displayed right in front of you. Graphics are the best part of this game.
Yes, now we get to the controls. The thing that single handedly ruined this game. This game has the worse controls I have every seen. They are very bad. You just might as well change the configuration to your liking before you even start playing, because you will be switching back and forth between the menu and the game the entire first level. I think that if this game would have been in first person, because with bad controls comes bad camera. If there is a right angle in a wall, and you are on one side, and the enemy is on the other, you just might as well have you guy commit suicide, because he will die either way. If this game were in first person this would not be a problem, not to mention that the team commands are horrible as well. This game sucks only because of its controls.
Level wise, this game does have some very innovative things about it. There are three different campaigns. The first one is World War Two, and the last one is modern day, leaving the second one in the middle. This is a very innovative thing because in each campaign there are missions, and there are like three levels in each mission, making the game somewhat long. This is a good thing once you finally get the controls down and they don't completely ruin you time playing.
This game is a great attempt at something new, but it fails miserably all because the controls suck really badly. This game has great innovation, but lacks the things that are needed to make the game fun to play. I said it before and I will say it again, since this game came out before the big wave of World War Two games, it could have been a squad-based shooter, but been in first person instead. The controls ruin this game. This game is free though, but I think it was just so they could try to get people into the series before the second one was released, but this game gives me more than one reason that I do not want to at all play the second one. That is why I give Hidden and Dangerous for the PC a 6/10.
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