Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines 1998

Is it still worth playing?

Pyro Studios' 1998 real time tactics game for Windows, in which you command a group of Allied commandos on twenty missions across wartime Europe and Africa. Six commandos have distinct abilities and gear, such as the Green Beret's lure and knife, the Marine's diving and harpoon gun and the Spy's disguises and lethal injection, and each mission supplies a subset. A mission is failed if any commando dies. Enemies have fields of vision shown as colored cones, and spot commandos at close range or, when they stand, at long range. They investigate suspicious evidence, and alarms bring more soldiers, in some missions an instant failure. Each mission opens with a briefing, and you can view the full map to plan ahead. Commandos die easily when shot, so visible vision cones and a small squad of specialists still make each mission a planning puzzle today.