As the convoy proceeded, a trap triggered and smashed the carriage. The traps are triggered by shooting the bull's eye above them. My two men hid in the dead leaves by the bridge as Robin Hood prepared to unleash the deadly traps on the unsuspecting soldiers. My next mission was to attack a convoy so I chose a couple of men and proceeded. It seems the missions vary between defending a castle, attacking a castle, ambushing sheriff's convoys and other missions. After you leave the merry men to their duty, you open the map and prepare for a mission. Every man counts: they can train in Archery (if they have a bow), prepare food, harvest apples, treat wounded, fletch arrows, prepare nets, train in hand-to-hand. Untrained farmers join the charismatic hero if he knocks out guards instead of killing them, thus you're heavily rewarded by NOT using violence. I expected Robin Hood to be a nice alternative to Commandos, but I got a nice alternative of Jagged Alliance 2: after the first 2 missions, which serve as tutorials, I entered the Sherwood Forest Hideout. For those reasons, I didn't bother with it. The second commandos was rather easy and then most of Pyro's employees left before the 3rd one was finished.Commandos: Destination Berlin had more action than stealth and had more rush tactics than careful planning. I remember playing the demo a while ago and took this game as an alternative to Commandos. IMDb calls her Caterina Altieri, but I'm guessing (from the billing) that she's Stefania Sartori instead, but not the "Stefania Sartori" credited with appearing as Juliet.Today, I entered a newly oppened EBGames and my father bought me this game for 8 CND. Since the actors' roles are never identified in these stinkers, there is confusion over who played what suffice it to say that the same tall & slim, pale beauty who played Beatrice, helping out Romeo in his video is cast as Maid Marian in this one. Cast is nearly identical with that for D'Amato's JULIET AND ROMEO. This silliness is an excuse for lots of sex, with Michaels doing a lot of the mixed-combo humping.
It's all jumbled together in the final print. In long shots during this sequence she is nude, but in closer shots is wearing her chastity belt, a glaring mismatch every time there's a cut. An even dumber continuity error occurs during one of many slapstick scenes where the Sheriff torments a hapless peasant regarding his wife. Surprise ending has King Richard incognito winning the contest, having surreptitiously just returned from The Crusades, and setting everything right in the kingdom.
Film culminates in a very poorly staged archery tournament called by the King, with the winner to get Marian's hand and (contradictorily) all her lands and possessions (continuity person forgot about the Rebecca subplot a reel earlier). Lovely Maid Marian is abducted by the King and her title and lands are to be turned over to her treacherous servant Rebecca, who for the fans is sexy enough (with over-sized nipples to boot) to have us porn hounds overlook her wrongdoings. So Robin of Sherwood pops up (in the form of Mark Davis), repeatedly stealing the keys and thereby making a hit with the townsfolk. This is fun, and my mind wandered to today's moronic Tea Party movement - I guess those stiffs would go along with the Christian Right and favor abstinence if a similar taxation plan were instituted today. If any peasant wants to get laid, he has to pay a tariff for the privilege.
Adding to the silliness, the Sheriff wears a cheap turban (at first I thought it was an elaborate shower cap) -what's that all about? Key gimmick here is the use of chastity belts to raise money for King John's coffers, the Sheriff kidnaps all the town's women and fits them with the belts, giving the keys to the King. Just as the crappy Kevin Costner hit version ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES injected an anachronistic Black character into the mix (played by Morgan Freeman), D'Amato makes the Sheriff of Nottingham into a Black, broadly played by Sean Michaels in the film's leading role (Robin doesn't show up at all until over 30 minutes has elapsed). If you can stomach a horrendously asinine English-dubbing job, it's OK XXX diversion.
ROBIN THIEF OF WIVES is Joe D'Amato's quickie take on the legendary hero, here reduced to dumb sex comedy.
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