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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The first level's theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X66BUaZ9OwI World Wide Connection]]. The credits theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCRx_Ij5rs0 Take Me Over,]] is also good.
* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: The game is fast-paced and fun, and the ending tries its best to avert this trope (it simply shows an image of Jackal on a motorcycle, looking at the viewer by the sunset). Whether it succeeded or not is debatable. See the ending [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqB5kHIlexs here]].
* NightmareFuel: If violence options are enabled in the first game, enemy mooks can die in various agonizing ways; from limbs getting blown off to bodies being burnt to a crisp.
* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''VideoGame/CommandoCapcom'', ''VideoGame/IkariWarriors'', and other such free-moving vertical [[{{ShootEmUp}} shmups]].
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: The main reason ''[[VideoGame/ShockTroopersSecondSquad 2nd Squad]]'' was ill received by fans of the first game is that it was pretty different from its predecessor, both in its more cartoonesque graphic style and in the more limited choice of characters and paths.
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