History VideoGame / Commando2

Not to be confused with Capcom's ''VideoGame/CommandoCapcom'' series or Pyro Studios' ''[[VideoGame/{{Commandos}} Commandos 2: Men of Courage]].

Not to be confused with Capcom's ''VideoGame/{{Commando}}'' series or Pyro Studios' ''[[VideoGame/{{Commandos}} Commandos 2: Men of Courage]].

* NintendoHard:
** The first game of the series has you be barely able to take a few hits, and you can't aim with the mouse, so it's no easier than the [[VideoGame/MetalSlug arcades that inspired it]].
** Normal Mode and above in the second game. You take a lot more damage than usual.
** The fourth and fifth stages of the third game, especially in Hard mode, are ruthless, with several dangerous hazards and enemies.

* BareYourMidriff: The female character in 2 and 3, although it's tough to tell in the former because of the small character models.

* BottomlessMagazines: None of your weapons ever have to be reloaded, although the dtronger ones will run out of ammo eventually.
* BulletHell: Crabocalypse, especially when it's low on health, spams bullets ruthlessly.

* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Besides the obvious soldiers, we also have cannibals, mosquito swarms, DeadlyGas, crocodiles, and ''malevolent patches of swamp grass''.

* GenreShift: The original game was a pretty faithful ''VideoGame/MetalSlug'' clone. The sequels shifted away from this and underwent increasingly dramatic changes in art and gameplay.

After the third game the series saw a spin-off, Commando Assault, a tower defense game in the vein of ''VideoGame/MetalSlugDefense'' in which the player spawns units to destroy the enemy base, and prevent the enemy from doing the same to them (unlike ''MSD'', there is still a player character who takes part in the fighting). Likely due to the lower budget involved, all subsequent Commando games were of the Assault variety.

* BottomlessMagazines: None of your weapons ever have to be reloaded, although they will run out of ammo eventually.
* BulletHell: Crabocalypse, especially when it's low on health.

* DegradedBoss: The Kungfu Warrior boss of stage 2 makes a return in Stage 4 as a MiniBoss.

* NintendoHard: Normal Mode and above. You take a lot more damage than usual.

* TurnsRed: The first three bosses- The Sling Raider gets a new ability to [[RammingAlwaysWorks charge forward]] and impale your character on its SpikesOfDoom, the Kungfu Warrior ''literally'' turns red and gets much more deadly attacks (and in Commando 3, he has ''a second rage level where he turns '''[[color:purple:PURPLE]]'''''), the Crabocolypse starts spamming fireballs and bombs.

* WaveMotionGun: The second phase of the Warlord Samurai, as well as the Warlord Samurai's head. The FinalBoss also has such an attack in the second phase.

** One of the {{Elite Mook}}s uses a katana, and can shoot out {{Sword Beam}}s in SpreadShot fashion. They don't do much damage, however.
* KiManipulation: The Kungfu Warrior, of course.

* MadeOfIron: Your character, but only in Easy and maybe Normal.

* RecurringBoss: The Machine Gun Robot (that flying mosquito thing) and Doomtrax are bosses from the first game that appear in the second. In the third game, we have the Kong-Fu Warrior from the second game making an appearance.

* {{Bizarrechitecture}}: The final mission of the first game sees you on a zeppelin with acid pools(!) that can only be crossed by swinging on ropes(!!).

* {{Striperriffic}}: The woman in the third game wears short-shorts, boots, and a sports bra, and the man isn't that much better. This is particularly jarring given that the first level of the game takes place in Stalingrad. During the ''winter''.