Cheat Commandos Tactics

"This game woulda ruled!"

Cheat Commandos Tactics is an abandoned Videlectrix game. It is likely a turn-based tactics genre game, similar to Advance Wars (given that some graphics had been "temporarily swiped" from that game): the player controls Cheat Commando units on a grid-based map, with occasional cutscenes advancing the story and breaking up gameplay.

A video of rudimentary gameplay, featuring a cutscene demo, was posted to Twitter on November 6, 2018. No further information about this game has been shared; it is unknown when the game was started or abandoned.

Cast: Fightgar, Gunhaver, Silent Rip

Places: The Desert

Gameplay

The video does not show many elements of gameplay. It starts with a top-down view of a map with Fightgar on it. The map is mostly green, with some mountains and a vertical gray bridge in the center. The graphics are pixelated, and the music is from the opening of Cheat Commandos...O's. As the mouse cursor hovers over the map tiles, a gray box in the top-left corner shows what type of tile it is. There are three known types of tiles: "plain", "mountain", and "bridge". When the cursor hovers over the character, some statistics appear: HP (short for "Not Dead Points"), AP (short for "Awesomeness Points"), and level.

When the character is clicked, a list of options appears: Move, Attack, Status, Wait, Cancel. In the video, "Attack" is shown to be unclickable, presumably as there is nothing to attack. "Status" gives a more detailed list of statistics, including the character's speed and defense. The player can click "Back" to exit this screen. Clicking on "Move" causes the four tiles orthogonally adjacent (not diagonal) to Fightgar to glow blue, and the player may click one of those tiles to move there. The player can click "Cancel" to cancel this action. It is unknown exactly what the other options do.

Fightgar's Statistics

• Level: 20
• Not Dead Points: 44/44
• Awesome Points: 20/24
• Fastness: 1
• Farness: 2
• Hurtness: 5
• Defendness: 2

Cutscene Demo

"Do I get paid double for voicing both of these Gunholders?"

{Slow fade-in to the desert. Music from the commercial portion of the Cheat Commandos toon plays. Gunhaver slides in from the left. The graphics are slightly pixelated, and the words are not spoken, but subtitled in a gray box below. A "NEXT" button is in the corner of the box, which the player can click to advance the conversation.}

GUNHAVER: CCDO's! Walk into this room alert!

{Silent Rip slides in from the right}

SILENT RIP: This is a desert.

{A second Silent Rip slides in from the right, behind the first one}

SECOND SILENT RIP: Gunahver! They're repainting and rebranding us so they can sell us at Big Lots!

{A second Gunhaver slides in from the left, behind the first one}

SECOND GUNHAVER: Do I get paid double for voicing both of these Gunholders?

{While the second Gunhaver speaks, the main Cheat Commandos theme with lyrics starts playing}

{The first Gunhaver slides offscreen to the left, and the first Silent Rip slides offscreen to the right}

SECOND SILENT RIP: Wanna go get ramen?

SECOND GUNHAVER: I'm mostly down with that.

{The second Silent Rip slides offscreen to the right, and the second Gunhaver slides offscreen to the left. The cutscene ends just as the song ends.}

Fun Facts

Inside References

• The statistics contain "Not Dead Points" and "Awesomeness Points".
• The cutscene demo contains duplicate characters.
• Gunhaver's name is flubbed once again.

Real-World References

• Big Lots is a retailer specializing in moving overstock or clearance merchandise.

External Links

• View tweet

Cheat Commandos
The Commandos	Gunhaver, Crackotage, Fightgar, Firebert, Flashfight, Reinforcements, Reynold, Ripberger, Silent Rip Agent Chimendez, Foxface, Green Helmets, Ser-g-geant Marshie
Blue Laser	Blue Laser Commander, Blue Laser Babies, Blue Laser Minion, New Bad Guy Girl Character
Other Characters	Gunhavette, Gunk Iller, Mrs. Commanderson, Oliver Smidgen, Reynold's Brother, The Topplegangers
Places	Cheat Commandos HQ (The Screen), Arctic Playset, Kitchen Commandos, Reynold's Office Blue Laser HQ, Blue Laser Commander's Nana's Backyard, Blue Laser Cottage The Desert, Jaded Teen Pizza, Price Style, Reynold's Parents' House, Topplegangers' Hideout
Combat Accessories	Cheat Commandos Vehicles, Crackotage's Plane, Gunhaver's Gun, Justice Rocket Backpack Rocket Rocket, Spy Camera
Episodes	Cheat Commandos, Cheat Commandos...O's, Shopping For Danger, Commandos in the Classroom, Blue Laserdisc Challenge, Let us give TANKS! An Important Rap Song, The Next Epi-Snowed, Two Part Episode (Part 1, Part 2), Dangeresque Puppet Squad: The Hot Jones Hijack
Show Elements	Theme Song, Buy all our playsets and toys!!
Cast and Crew	A. Chimendez, Crack Stuntman, Crack Stuntman's Girlfriend, Guy Who Does The Bad Guy's Voice, The Cheat
Miscellaneous	Playsets (for figurines), Rejected Cheat Commandos, Other Costumes, Pony Fights 2, Cheat Commandos Tactics

Videlectrix Games
Games Menu	50K Racewalker, Awexome Cross, Duck Guardian One, Hallrunner, Kid Speedy, Peasant's Quest, Pigs on Head, Population: Tire, RhinoFeeder, Secret Collect., Stinkoman 20X6, StrongBadZone, TROGDOR!, Thy Dungeonman, Thy Dungeonman 2, Thy Dungeonman 3, Where's an Egg?
SBCG4AP	Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People Homestar Ruiner (Snake Boxer 5), Strong Badia the Free (Math Kickers), Baddest of the Bands (Limozeen's Hot Babelien Odyssey), Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective (Space Circus Catastrophe), 8-Bit is Enough (Gel-Arshie's Pro Fruitboarder)
itch.io	Dangeresque: The Roomisode Triungulate (Behind the Dangerdesque; The Intersection of Doom & Boom (Rig Rug); Keep My Enemies, Loser; Inspection Certificate on File in Building Office), Halloween Hide & Seek, Marzipan Beef Reverser, Trogday Micro Game (Burninate the Barnyard)
Other	Duck Pond, Where's The C.H.E.A.T.
Non-playable	Butcher Bros., C.H.E.A.T., Cheat Commandos Tactics, Duck Guardian 2, Fluffy Puff Mayonnaise Game, Halfathlon, King Dingo, Lewis Rudkin SX: england, Planet Alert!, QWERTY, Rabbit Algebra, Salad Daze, Shploitz!, Spaceshipper, Spirits of '76, Sundae Drivin', Trogdor: Let's Burninate Phonics
See Also	Videlectrix Guys, Videlectrix Mascot, videlectrix.itch.io, videlectrix.com, Viidelectrix