Hidden & Dangerous 2

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Hidden & Dangerous 2

Developer(s)	Illusion Softworks
Publisher(s)	Gathering of Developers Take-Two Interactive, Global Star Software
Engine	LS3D engine
Version	1.12.0 October 24, 2004
Platform(s)	Windows
Release date	October 24, 2003
Genre(s)	Tactical shooter
Mode(s)	Single player, Multiplayer
Rating(s)	ESRB: Mature (17+) PEGI: 16+
Media	CD (3), DVD (1)

Hidden & Dangerous 2 (abbreviated H&D2, HaD2 or HD2) is a tactical shooter computer game developed by Illusion Softworks and published by Gathering of Developers and Take-Two Interactive. The player takes on the role of a four man British Special Air Service (SAS) team during World War II, conducting a wide variety of operations behind enemy lines. The game is set in a number of World War II battle theaters, including everything from Burma to Norway. Unusually for a World War II game, the final mission set in Czechoslovakia during the last days of the war offers a battle with Soviet Red Army troops over German secret documents.

The game failed to win a large following in North America despite receiving well above-average reviews, partly because of the release of similar games, such as Call of Duty, and because of the many bugs that remained in the game in spite of successive, and often large, patches; a problem shared with the first game. However, the game became popular in Europe, selling millions of copies. As with Mafia, which was also developed by Illusion Softworks, the game centers around realistic gameplay and immersive environments. Weapon and vehicle physics are detailed and fairly accurate, more so than most games of similar genre during its time. For example, bullets can penetrate wooden doors and other "soft" objects.

The real problem with the game is its unstable artificial intelligence. The other three members of the squad can be best used as stationary fire power rather than for complex tactics. This problem existed since the first game of the sequel but was not sufficiently fixed in the newer ones.

The walking animations were also a point of criticism. For example, when your player turns, he will usually bend his knees in a silly way when he comes to the end of the turn.

Sabre Squadron, an expansion pack released during October of 2004, introduced 9 new single player levels, 8 new multiplayer maps, new weapons, and a co-operative multiplayer mode. Some clans have released unofficial multiplayer co-operative maps, modified from those available in the single player game.

1 Single player missions
2 Weapons and vehicles
3 External links
4 See also

[edit] Single player missions

Hidden and Dangerous 2 original

Tutorial

Here you will run your way through the assault course, learn how to shoot, throwing grenades, handling explosives, operating vehicles, sneaking and diving. When you have done this, you will learn how to command your team.

Operation Snowball, Norway, March 1941

A British Spitfire pilot was shot down in the Lofoten islands during a reconnaissance mission, and it's your goal to save him. You will be in contact with a Norwegian resistance fighter, who will take you to a German underground research facility, where you will take photos and blow up the complex. Then, you will save the pilot and go to an iceberg where you will have to get some research documents, and seize a German submarine. This operation is based on Operation Claymore.

Operation Nomad, Africa, November 1942

In this campaign, you must capture a German luftwaffe officer named Hans Schumann. In the first mission, you will go to the Italian airfield Abn-Sin Oan, and find him. You have to interrogate the airport commander, captain Bariselli, who says he flew off to Daiburn a while ago. After that your team must drive trough the desert, where you confront minefields and being constantly attacked by Messerschmitt Bf 109s. After going through the desert, you have to occupy a German oasis and seize a vehicle. You also have to defend it at night. You managed to get a German uniform, and you are now able to get into Daiburn. After you have captured Schumann. You must take off in a Junkers Ju 88 and defend it against fighter attacks.

Operation Seawolf, Norway, June 1943

The German battleship Tirpitz is anchored in a Norwegian fjord and you have to destroy it. You will place the magnetic mines under the hull, and then, you will go aboard a minesweeper named Olaf, and steal the Enigma scrambler before the German crews discover you. Then, you will mine the ship, and escape on Chariots. This operation is based on Operation Source, though that operation took place in September, not June.

Operation Stranger, Burma, July 1943

You must go into a Japanese occupied part of the jungle, where your task is to destroy an important bridge serving the Japanese convoys. After that, you have to go into a Japanese settlement and find the reason for the activity in the area. You discover some aircraft parts which you must destroy. After getting out of the jungle, you meet another SAS team, who helps you seize a Japanese bunker lying on the top of a plateau.

Operation Challenger, Austria, September 1943

At Adler castle in the Alps, there are some documents you will have to get. After capturing a truck driver, you will head for the castle in disguise. After gaining access top the castle, you will contact an agent, Lieutenant Elizabeth Salter (MI5 codename Aquitania), who will take you to the archives. Then, both of you will escape.

Operation Overlord, Normandy, May 1944

The German occupied Rouen fortress off the French coast, is serving as a base for German coastal cannons. You will have to destroy all of the cannons. In the next mission, you will help a surrounded group of American soldiers in a bank.

Operation Liberator, Czech, May 1945

This campaign takes place in Bohemia in the final days of the war. In the first mission, you will go to the Czech Liptakov railway station, where you will have to find a Czech resistance leader, Trebissky, and save him from the claws of the Gestapo. But, it seems that he couldn't stand the torture, and he only manages to tell you that colonel Harald Freiberg has the documents. The Russians manage to make his train go off-track, and when you find him, he surrenders. You have to escort him to a villa, where you will hand him over to the 97th American infantry division. The American captain asks you if you could do another job for them, and you will go on to the Sumava village. Here you have to eliminate all of the German soldiers, and recover some stolen valuables. A German convoy passes by at night, but you manage to take care of them too. In the final mission, you seize a German Panther tank and fight your way to the German occupied bunker. After getting hold of the documents, the Russians arrive, and you have to fight down any resistance. When you have held back the Russian counter-attack, the war is over.

Hidden and Dangerous 2: Sabre Squadron

Operation Ammobox, Brest, June 1942

A German submarine base, located near Brest is your destruction goal for this campaign. You have to get into the area, place a Beacon near the ammunition storage and some fuel tanks, and then you will destroy the remaining submarines.

Operation Heat, Libya, October 1942

In the town of Derna, the Germans captured two B-24 Liberator pilots, whom you must save. The aircraft contained a secret prototype of a new photogrammeter device, which the Germans must not get their hands on. You will have to sneak inside the gates of the town, and bring the pilots back - alive. After you've succeeded to hand them over to the Long Range Desert Group, you will continue on your own to find the Liberator wreck. After fighting several units of the Afrika Korps in a canyon, you will reach the wreck. The area is apparently heavily guarded, but you manage to get there and destroy the wreck. But the rest of the equipment aboard was already removed, taken away for analysis in the nearby ghost town Ain Mara. You will destroy the equipment and escape in a vehicle.

Operation Husky, Sicily, June 1943

An allied invasion near Syracuse is awaiting, and you will be one on the first to enter. You will have to destroy some coastal cannon batteries, and fight your way out of the complex. In the next mission, you will fight along with some British soldiers against the Italians. Originally, you were supposed to destroy the Ponte Grande bridge, but the commander tells you that this is the only bridge for miles around that heavy vehicles can cross, so you have to prevent it from being destroyed by the Italians. After the explosives have been removed, and the bridge secured, the Italians send more reinforcements. You have to fight against panzers, and you manage to destroy all of them before allied backup arrives.

Operation Houndsmith, Burgundy, September 1944

In this mission, you will be in contact with French partisans. Your main goal of the first mission is to regroup your team, and then head for an ammunition depot, which you will have to destroy. In the next mission your goal is to go on a farm, assassinate a German SS officer, eliminate the garrison and capture a French collaborator. In the final mission, you will have to save your SAS colleagues, who are to be executed. When you've saved your captured comrades, the game credits appear.

[edit] Weapons and vehicles

There are a number of different weapons in Hidden & Dangerous 2 and Sabre Squadron, which consist of a wider variety and selection versus other World War II first-person shooters. Some of these weapons are introduced out of historical chronology.

Light weapons

Medium weapons