When you reach Operation Market Garden, you’ll have noticed to yourself that so far things haven’t gotten horrendously hard. Nijmegen is where things get cranked up a notch. You parachute into a mangled wreck of a city and are expected to make your way over to secure the Nijmegen Bridge. If only things were that simple, alas of course they are not. The Germans have rigged the bridge with explosives and your task is to run through the ruined city, locate and destroy a field radio, cables and the explosives plunger to keep the bridge intact. Along the way you’re also expected to clear some MG nests and to top it off, there’s a Tiger tank cruising the area that you’re also expected to destroy, just this time you haven’t got an M18. Instead you must rescue a batch of Gammon Grenades (they look something akin to a novelty Kangaroo scrotum money pouch) the Germans stole from your drop. From there it’s up to you to try ninja your way close enough to the tank to throw these suckers at it, it’s not easy, it takes around four good hits to do the job. All along the way there is heavy house to house fighting. The audio is exceptionally cool in this level with the sound of your feet pounding broken roofing tiles, wood, crappy muddy dirt all adding to the atmosphere. I might go as far to say this is probably the prettiest level in the game and it would have done great as a Multiplayer conversion (alas, it wasn’t done).

If you survive the initial objectives, you’d think you were all set to head to the bridge. Unfortunately no and you wonder why you though that’d be the case as it’s starting to become clear that the main objective is always set back by two or three dodgy minor objectives that pop up during the level. Your latest thrill is destroying yet another Tiger tank that decided to run over two of your buddies. There is in-fact a little cut scene that’s probably designed to try get you all emotional over the fact that Derrick and Dwayne (or whoever the hell they were) got run over. All that cut scene did for me was tick me off for interrupting the game. Take out the big bad nasty tank and you’ll finally get to go to the bridge.

Once you regroup with your buddies at the start of the bridge, a bunch of Sherman’s roll in and everybody suspects things are hunky dory. It’s here we meet Mr. Panzerschreck, or more like 38 Mr. Panzerschreck’s, in fact they’re everywhere. Evil little guys with gas masks running around trying to blow you sky high. Of course, you charge on, picking up a stray Panzerschreck for yourself for some sweet revenge, the satisfaction of watching a fellow Panzerschrecker fly for miles as he’s blasted off his lookout platform is amazing. Your final objective lies at the other end of the bridge, yep, you guessed it, another bloody tank. Once you take it out, so ends Operation Market Garden and you’re left hoping you don’t have to destroy another tank ever again (and you’re looking for the Kleenex as you remember what top mates Derrick and Dwayne were).