Hidden and Dangerous was one of the first of the modern-day "soldier sims", which is to say that it was marketed as a realistic military simulation, a kind of Rainbow Six set in WW2. It was also one of the first major international successes from an Eastern European development team, and helped to establish the Czech Republic in particular as a hotbed of talent. As with the Rainbow Six, Hidden and Dangerous owes a little to the puzzle genre, particularly Commandos, a WW2 game which had been released the previous year. The soldiers in Rainbow Six were rather like clockwork robots, in that you planned their movements in advance, before the beginning of each mission. Whilst playing the game you could order your soldiers to halt in place, and you could directly take over their movements one at a time, but you had no way to alter their programmed movements. If something went wrong, your plan fell to bits, and there were no way to flexibly improvise. It was as if the game was a simulation of the Soviet command economy. Hidden and Dangerous uses a system whereby you issue orders during the game, and it is this model which has become the standard. It works well, although you generally only use it to move your soldiers towards the action, or order them to watch a certain point, whilst you control them directly during the tricky parts. There is a diverse range of missions, set in snowy Norway, the forests of France and on a ship in the middle of the ocean. I liked this game, I really did. I liked it a lot. There were more things to like that just this, I'm sure of it. But I cannot recall them now. DOWNLOAD HERE: CD1