Shadow Company Left for Dead

Much like the Jagged Alliance games from Sirtech, Shadow Company puts you in command of a small squad of mercenaries. You begin the game with only a three-man force, left for dead (hence the subtitle) after a botched operation in Angola. You must first complete your original assignment with limited troops and equipment and then escape to a safe extraction point before the game's main campaign begins in earnest. The game offers a brief nine-mission single-player campaign, though each of the missions involves a dizzying array of objectives. You are often called upon to complete five or six seemingly unrelated tasks - rescue a prisoner and blow up a submarine, for example - against enormous odds. Often, you'll find dozens of enemy soldiers guarding and patrolling your target area. Fortunately, you have a very impressive arsenal at your disposal. With the money you make from successful missions, you can hire new mercs and buy new equipment. Weapons include handguns, submachine guns, assault weapons, and sniper rifles, as well as grenades, knives, and bazookas. You can also stock up on body armor, night-vision goggles, medical kits, and all that other stuff a good mercenary army needs in the field.