$4.99Commando Collection
A growing bundle of Macrojoy's old-school WWII run-and-gun shooters: Commando 2, Commando X and Commando 3, cleaned up in HD with rebalanced difficulty, new enemies, bosses and modes. Cheap, loud, and built for childhood nostalgia with the cheats left on.
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Sweeping trenches with absurd firepower
You run left to right as an Allied soldier, jump between platforms, and hose down waves of infantry, tanks and bosses with rifles, grenades and stranger guns. Commando 2 now has extra enemies, richer levels and tweaked boss AI, plus settings for enemy counts, boss reinforcements and blood effects. Turn the spawn multiplier up and you get exactly what it promises: a tidal wave you mow down by the thousand. Survival Mode adds fresh enemies and bosses, and a Workshop system lets you tinker further.
Three shooters, three different wars
The core set is Commando 2, the positional group-combat offshoot Commando X: Allied Assault, and Commando 3 with mounts, more enemy types and new battlefields. The look shifts too, from the squat cartoon style of 2 to the straighter, more realistic art of 3. Around that sits a Special Gift section with a Commando 2 music video, scanned designs, a cast curtain-call and notes on future additions. Macrojoy keeps restoring its back catalog into this same library, so the list on the side keeps growing.
Hard like you remember, cheats included
This plays like a Flash-era arcade shooter, and it feels like one: stiff jumps, aggressive enemies who shoot and lob grenades, and difficulty that climbs fast on higher settings. That is part of the charm if you grew up on it. If you did not, the built-in cheat options help — invulnerability and infinite ammo are right there in the menus. It is a Metal Slug-style afternoon: short levels, high replay value, best enjoyed with the training wheels on and the sound turned up.
Good to know before you buy?
What do you actually get in the collection?
Commando 2, Commando X: Allied Assault and Commando 3, plus a Special Gift section with videos, designs and series plans. Every included game has HD visuals, rebalanced difficulty and modernized code, and Macrojoy is restoring more of its old catalog into the same bundle over time.
Can you make it easier if it gets brutal?
Yes. The settings include enemy generation multipliers, boss troop options and cheat toggles like invulnerability and infinite ammo. Higher difficulties raise enemy health and defense a lot, so there is no shame in playing like it is 2008 in a school computer lab.
How do the three games differ?
Commando 2 is the classic side-scrolling campaign with new enemies and Survival Mode. Commando X drops the lone-wolf run for positional group combat. Commando 3 adds rideable mounts, more enemy types and battle scenes, and trades the cartoon look for a more realistic war style.
Does it use AI-generated images?
Yes, some key visuals, promotional illustrations and ending slides were made with AI tools based on the original characters. The sprite-based combat itself keeps its retro pixel look, but steer clear if generated art is a dealbreaker for you.
