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...
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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: July 18, 2014
jfren484
Games: 128 Reviews: 2
Does not work in Windows 8!!!
If you don't have a machine that runs XP or Windows 7, don't buy it! It will not run on Windows 8.
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Posted on: August 2, 2018
Jumping Langur
Verified ownerGames: Reviews: 3
Game-breaking bugs in Linux
I enjoyed the game for almost 30 hours but the game crashes when loading mission 22 with the message "Loading dialogues" on Linux. Tried Ubuntu and Arch to no avail. Unfortunately, this breaks the game completely for me (can't finish it) so I give it one star. The game itself is a good reimagining of the Commandos formula in a Western setting. However, I still rate Commandos, and especially Commandos 2, above Desperados. See, Desperados has some annoying design decisions such as the random nature of every action. Most user actions are non-deterministic (the damage received, the damage inflicted, etc.), which in a tactical game such as this is kind of astonishing in a bad way. Quicksave and quickload all the way until Sam can kill the guard standing 5 m from him with one bullet. For the rest, graphics are very nice and controls are responsive and precise. I liked the quick-actions a lot. It's a pity that I can't finish it :_(
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Posted on: September 10, 2018
federicopalozzi
Verified ownerGames: 14 Reviews: 1
not working
it crashes on my mac at the third level, it doesn't let me interact with the object.
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Posted on: April 21, 2011
trusteft
Verified ownerGames: 1968 Reviews: 123
good game
Basically a Commandos type of game, only done very well in a "Wild West" theme. If you liked any of the following games, you will probably like this one. Commandos series, Robin Hood:The legend of Sherwood. Real time, action, puzzle game with the use of a mouse in a Wild West game world. If you don't like the gameplay mechanics of them, then you better avoid this.
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Posted on: June 2, 2018
Gh0st87
Games: 162 Reviews: 5
Game good but GOG work shit
GOG did a very bad job with this game.
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