Commandos 3: HD Remaster

Commandos 3 - HD Remaster seemed to promise a nostalgic return and a revival of the legendary title, which combines the RTS and stealth genres with tactical elements, along with great atmosphere and gameplay, all wrapped up in a fresh new look. Unfortunately, due to technical shortcomings, a terrible camera, and, last but not least, Epic Games’ secret saving of files to the device, I cannot recommend this title.

Just like its original 20 years back, the level of difficulty and their hardcore missions have been well preserved to alert gamers to know their place, into despair. Sadly, the console versions of the game didn’t fully utilize the utility of a gamepad, thus creating a terrible control scheme to navigate through the game, paired with horrible camera controls which makes it a double negative.

Commandos 3 - HD Remaster retains fantastic levels of difficulty and a wonderful blend of missions. However, it is let down by poor controls and a woeful camera. I believe it'll be better on PC, but as a console gamer, I felt thoroughly letdown.

We can only recommend Commandos 3 ' HD Remaster if you have nothing left to do and you have gone through everything from Mimimi Games from front to back.

Commandos 3: HD Remaster is ultimately a game that has failed to deliver. While it may be authentic to the original Commandos 3 experience, that is really a failure rather than a success. It fails to really improve the game in any way other than its visuals. The gameplay is still as clunky as it always was, and the game still features legacy bugs that have been present in the title since 2003. It is a shame, but Commandos 3: HD Remastered is more of a re-release as opposed to a remaster.

With the hindsight that there is now, with spiritual successors to Pyro Studios’ work like Mimimi’s Desperados 3 getting it so right, I hope to heaven that whoever is minding the supposed new entry in Commandos takes heed and avoid the errors that were committed in both the original version Commandos 3 and were further worsened in this HD remaster. It could have been so much better…