Posted on: June 3, 2015

UniversalWolf

Spiele: 504 Rezensionen: 7

5/8 Greatness, 3/8 Misery

Desperados is an excellent game marred by all the worst characteristics of the RTS genre. At its best it pushes you to utilize many different strategies. At its worst it is a hopelessly frustrating click-fest. I can't help but recommend it for the excellence of it's good parts, but that's not to say it doesn't have some considerable flaws. CONS: Your characters have no AI of their own, so unless you're telling them what to do at all times, they stand immobile like masterless puppets. They won't even defend themselves when attacked. No active pause (barring use of the TIMELESS cheat code, which I recommend) means you cannot issue orders to your characters while the action is stopped. You have up to six characters in your party at one time, and you're supposed to control them all simultaneously while battling dozens of enemies in real-time. It can be a nightmare. PROS: Great Old West setting backed up by sumptuous graphics. The character movements and backgrounds are similar to what you might have seen in games like Baldur's Gate. They look superb and really immerse you into the game. During the course of the game you gather a party of six characters. All are interesting, charismatic individuals with unique abilities. This allows you to use them together in many different combinations to achieve your objectives.

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Posted on: September 16, 2023

WaldmaennchenNuss

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Spiele: 738 Rezensionen: 12

Nice and pretty difficult!

Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive is in the vein of Commandos 2 and Robin Hood. ike the aforementioned, it is 2D Iso Style, which has some flaws. The art is great and far more beauteful in those games, then their 3D counterparts, because it has this handmade style. The controlls are flawed sometimes though. Sometimes it doubleclicks and therefore lets the charakter run instead of walk, which draws all attention to oneself (unwanted). Sometimes a shot, knifethrow, etc that would clearly hit in a 3D environment, if properly programmed, doesn't hit and so on. However, the game has a great style, good charakters and a well made atmosphere. All those games have, be it Robin Hood, Commandos 1, but especialy 2, and a bit less in 3. By the way, there was a game like those in 3D, which was called Korea:Forgotten Conflict, which I would love to have on GoG, since it was a masterful made game, with a very nice recording of action chains, to precisely sync. all charakters actions, I definitly recommend Desperados, and so I do the other mentioned games !!

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Posted on: March 18, 2013

eirikhjel

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Spiele: 23 Rezensionen: 2

Doesnt work on win 8

do not buy this for win 8, it lags constantly, makes the game unplayable.... great game though!

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Posted on: November 7, 2017

LLP

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Tech problems and tedious gameplay

I had to jump through hoops to get this game to work, resorting to 3rd party programs to get rid of fatal lag. Turns out it wasn't worth it anyway. This is an inferior predecessor to Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood. The big problem is hair-trigger enemy AI, which usually responds to you with an instant kill. With so many enemies to avoid, and an interface that hasn't been smoothed out yet, the gameplay is no fun. Unresponsive controls and glitches make it worse. My gang, for example, was supposed to carry an unconscious bandito across the big level, and lo and behold, my leader shows up at the end having decided to drop the bandito who knows where. The beautifully-drawn levels have been wasted. You might find Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood a worthwhile alternative.

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Posted on: October 26, 2018

Taleweaver1981

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Spiele: 179 Rezensionen: 2

Great game, but harder than I remember

Among me and my friends, Commandos: behind enemy lines was a great hit. We'd always tried all sorts of tricks and traps to avoid getting seen while planning to pick off which enemies in what order. The game was hard, but this didn't stop us. Rather the contrary. When I first saw Desperados in a store, I think I bought it purely on a screenshot ("hey: this is commandos in the far west!"). It was...and still is. But as I played, it became clear that this went beyond a mere theme change. The atmosphere of a spaghetti western was spot on in every aspect, it had a storyline that was both great and fitting, and the abilities allowed for the same sort of sneakiness. Better yet: the insane hardcore difficulty of commandos was tuned down, as shooting guns could save you when you were discovered. These fire fights were much more rewarding, even though the chance of surviving them was still small at best. It even had the ability to zoom in and out! Now...we are obviously talking 2001-2002 here. There's a fair chance I still have the disk in my basement somewhere, but I really don't regret buying it on GoG. If for no other reason, to get the much later released linux port (which doesn't have the issues that I see in other reviews). The only reason it gets only four stars is that, to my own surprise, the game is much harder than I remember. I had forgotten the act of saving just about every step (and certainly after every unalerted kill). I had forgotten that random things like putting down a music playing watch could alert 5 extra guards. Exiting a door and punching someone in the face fast enough can't be timed in advance (and misclicks mean being discovered). I have been spoiled by "stealth games" where guards can just see a cone directly in front of them. All in all: it's a pretty hard game. An absolute gem...but know what you're getting into.

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