Hayco and I have just bought `Beyond the call of duty. The sounds and graphics have been improved a lot and in the beginning we had the feeling of the `old good commandos game'. However, when we noticed that large parts of the missions could be done be shooting (even if when we were told in the briefing that raising the alarm would mean killing the prisoner that needed to be freed). We played three missions in one evening, all in three star bonus for time and health in the `hard' mode. There was one mission where we fooled around a lot and to our astonishment, we also got three time stars for that one.

So, we will not provide any walkthroughs and just give you a couple of hints:

• According to a tactic advise in the manual you should `use your head rather then your gun'. We suggest you should change this advise to: combine these two.

• You need a sniper bullet to get rid of a seamine, otherwise you cannot escape (at least we haven't found another way to let these things explode without killing some of your men). When you shoot the most northern seamine in the northern string of seamines, you can bypass the string by rowing all the way to the north, making sure your boat is in aligned along the west-east-axis. Note, that when you make this your first action of war, your entrance will be a lot more difficult because of the alarm and the bonus patrols. We tell you this as first hint so you can keep this mind when you are waisting your sniper bullets on other targets.
• Use your sniper to shoot a few nasty guards that prevent you from entering. Keep in mind that you need one bullet for a seamine. Another bullet for one of the guards that stands on the centre tower (the one facing eastwards) can also be handy.
• Once your made your entrance (use your marine to harpoon some other guards), shoot your way through the camp. Placing your explosives and barrels wisely will give you a bonus bomb or barrel. Note, you can destroy the tower in the centre and the FLAK with one bomb.

• Though your are told that raising the alarm means killing the prisoner, you can still shoot outside the first wall. The zoo guard should not see anything suspicious, since he will tell the firing squad to hurry up.
• When your spy has the uniform of the zoo guard, you can distract both patrols and guards.
• Once you cleared the area outside the outermost wall, lay death bodies so that patrols and guards on the other side are lured to your shooting area.

• Knife the guards who walks near the building where you are hiding and then find on of the many good hiding spots to shoot almost everything. Use your long distance shotgun of your driver to kill nasty guards and the machinegun nest on the other side of the river.

• Just shoot your way through the map.

• This mission seems to be a little tougher than the others. Due to the fact that I played this mission in the demo, I could easily finish it. I must say that the demo was much more difficult, because there you couldn't puppet and muppet handcuffed soldiers and getting the uniform on the roof is trivial now. Also, the undershot trick seems to work again :( Maybe I give a walkthrough later; for the time being a few hints:
• You can sneak behind most of the patrols if your timing is good enough.
• Enter the walls in the east; snipe the guard there who stands on the wall. Then carefully climb the wall with your beret and kill all the guards in the first courtyard (also the two on the central building), while keeping a eye on the patrol. The guards at the gate can easily been taken from inside if the guard that has a nasty scan range is distracted by a muppeted guard. (O, I did not mention the muppet? You should handcuff one or two guards in the first part so you can puppet them with your sniper or driver here.)
• You can snipe the whole patrol that walks in the north west area when you distract them with the decoy. This gives you an easy change to free your spy.
• If you knock down and handcuf the machine gunner nearby your spy, you can take his uniform. When wearing this uniform, you can almost run in a straight line to the generals uniform on the roof. When you got this uniform, you can even distract the colonel.