Tropico publisher Kalypso Media has announced that it's acquired the rights to classic WW2 real-time stealth-tactics series Commandos.

Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines, the first game in the series, launched a slightly frightening 20 years ago, back in 1998 - and, as I'm sure you're all fascinated to hear, was the third game I ever bought for my first PC, a beastly 486DX2, with 8MB of RAM, and a positively cavernous 280MB hard-drive.

Commandos challenges players to perform the likes of sabotage and assassination missions, directing their six-strong commando team across a variety of pre-rendered isometric locations - using stealth where possible and only breaking out the guns when absolutely necessary. It's very good, very tough, and my overriding memory is that it made me swear an awful lot.

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Do you like enemy lines and per chance being behind them? Do you own a PC made since 1967? Then our friends at Get Games may have just the deal for you.

Yes, as the headline suggests, you can currently buy the Commandos Complete collection for a whopping £2, which is a saving of about seven million per cent.

The pack consists of Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines, expansion pack Beyond the Call of Duty, and sequels Commandos 2: Men of Courage, Commandos 3: Destination Berlin and Commandos: Strike Force.

The Commandos series, from Spanish developer Pyro, is an isometric World War II stealth game where you direct a Green Beret, sniper, spy and other specialists to complete a range of fiendishly difficult objectives to turn the tide of war.

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