You can't do that here so any units not directly under control become useless. In Commandos, you deal with your units by setting them up with areas of coverage so that they'll shoot anyone that comes into their firing cone. There are also no real options for setting up ambushes or playing creatively from the lack of control. Or if you aren't going to put in a formation set, at least make it so there's no friendly fire.

A simple command to spread out in some formation would help with that. But they'll bunch up together so that if you come across some bad guys and tell your guys all to shoot at an enemy, they'll shoot each other in the back of the head. Tell them all to go into a room at the same time and they'll do it. Even better, the list of commands that you can give your squad is very small. If you don't give them direct orders, they just stand there, defenseless, like a cute little child with candy in its hand. You tell them to do something and they'll do it. This is for quite a few reasons, the biggest of which is AI. While you can certainly run through the game meticulously, holding each of your team members' hands, they'll die. Your guys are dead before they really get started. The kicker is, it doesn't really matter too much. They'll have different sets of skills, which can be increased during the course of the game, such as shooting, melee combat, and throwing.

Whichever side you play from, you choose up to five members for your team to finish a level. Both sides have close to the same set of skills, but the cops have the added difficulty of not being able to just take down any enemies that might be in their way. On the other side of the coin, you could also don the uniform of an officer of the law and take down the bad guys. It's up to you to play through the game as a mobster trying to make his name in Chicago by taking over property one section at a time. At first glance, Chicago 1930 looks a bit like a Commandos type of game.

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