Not every Commandos mission is won with a knife in the dark. When Pyro Studios' Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines (1998) hands you a truck, a tank, or a mounted machine gun, one specialist suddenly matters more than anyone else: the Driver—Samuel "Brooklyn" Brooklyn, the squad's wheelman and heavy-fire support when vehicles enter the plan.
Brooklyn is a Brooklyn-born American with a past on the wrong side of the law. In later Commandos lore he also appears under the alias Sid "Tread" Perkins, but the character is the same man: the only commando who can get behind the wheel. Where the Green Beret clears patrols on foot and the Marine owns the water, Brooklyn owns speed and firepower. He is the commando you call when the map stops being a stealth puzzle and becomes an escape route, a roadblock breach, or a chance to turn the enemy's own hardware against them.
His core ability is simple but mission-defining: he can drive vehicles. Trucks, armoured cars, and other drivable machines that other commandos cannot touch become tools in his hands. That alone changes how you read a map—suddenly a parked enemy vehicle is not scenery, it is a potential exit strategy or a rolling weapon platform.
Mounted guns are the other half of his identity. When Brooklyn is behind the wheel, he can man the machine gun on supported vehicles and deliver sustained fire that no infantry specialist can match quietly. It is loud, it is risky, and it is exactly what some missions reward when stealth has already done its job and you need to break out fast.
Personality fits the nickname. Brooklyn is practical, confident behind the controls, and less interested in theatrical infiltration than in getting the squad where it needs to go. Players who love the knife-and-shadow fantasy sometimes forget him on foot-only maps—and that is fair. The Driver is not a generalist; he is a specialist who shines when the level designer put keys in the ignition.
The smart habit is to scout first, then drive. Let the Spy distract, let the Green Beret clear a path, let the Sapper open a gate—and only then put Brooklyn in the seat. A vehicle driven too early turns a stealth mission into an alarm. A vehicle driven at the right moment turns a desperate retreat into a clean victory.
Pair him with the Marine on harbour escapes, the Sapper when demolitions clear the road ahead, and the Green Beret when you still need bodies removed before anyone turns the engine over. Read the Green Beret and Marine guides next, then browse Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines videos on this site and watch for the missions where the wheelman finally gets his moment.
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