Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive is the first strategy game ever to combine a movie-based and story-driven atmosphere of an adventure game with the intellectual challenge of a real time tactic game.
In this western-style title, discover a game of strategy and tactics played out in exceptional real time. You're in charge of a team of 6 mercenaries and must find a way to complete your missions, be it infiltrating an enemy fortress, saving a team member or escaping an ambush... Combine the different skills of your 6 heroes to lead them to victory.
El Paso, a typical Wild West town in the southwestern United States near the Mexican border. It is the year 1881. For the last few months, the trains belonging to the famous railroad company, Twinnings & Co have been the target of a whole series of hold-ups and ambushes. The management of the company has decided enough is enough and they have to put an end to the raids. It has offered a reward of $15,000 for anyone who captures the leader of the gang responsible.
But no one in and around El Paso has the courage to take on the might of the bandidos, so the outlaws just keep on robbing train after train. Even the local Marshal is keeping well out of it.
It’s only when a stranger rides into town that things start to change. Bounty hunter John Cooper pays a visit to the local Twinnings & Co manager offering to end the railroad company’s problems once and for all. He gathers together a gang of his old partners and declares war on the bandidos. But during his pursuit, which will take him through half of the southwestern United States, Cooper soon discovers that on this mission nothing is quite what it seems...
© 2013 by THQ Nordic AB, Sweden. Published by THQ Nordic GmbH, Austria. Developed by Spellbound. All other brands, product names and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. All rights reserved.
Mac notice: The game is 32-bit only and will not work on macOS 10.15 and up.
Mac notice: The game is 32-bit only and will not work on macOS 10.15 and up.
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Posted on: June 15, 2019
Redbeard1084
Verified ownerGames: 978 Reviews: 64
Has not aged well.
I loved this game back in the day. Today though...It's far to janky. When i found myself slamming on the "STAND UP" command and getting absolutely nothing because John Cooper had accidentally crawled into a wall and locked up, that was it for me. It's only barely playable by today's standards.
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Posted on: August 1, 2016
desperanish
Games: 7 Reviews: 2
The Greatest I Ever Seen
All Point In Game Was Great. Characters, Graphic, Game Play, And Etc.
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Posted on: November 9, 2013
grzywacz
Verified ownerGames: 79 Reviews: 2
Crashes constantly
Unable to even start the game on Windows 7 - crashes in the menu, on the loading screen, everywhere. Fail of the year.
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Posted on: January 7, 2018
I-R-Zombo
Verified ownerGames: 477 Reviews: 17
Good Game
its commandos but in the wild west, and it is very fun
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Posted on: June 17, 2020
srpatterso
Verified ownerGames: 94 Reviews: 3
"Windowed"?? Really?
Wanted to play it because of the great reviews it received, but after 5 minutes quit, because all it provided was a "windowed mode" with a big white line at the top. Looked online for a fix, no one actually had one. Disappointed. In this day and age a game should be "market ready" when you sell it to people...especially when you don't bother to note that it's not.
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