Posted on: August 29, 2011
miticodea
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Great, great game!
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Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive
Description
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.
The Story
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...
- More than 20 enemies with different profiles, from the lazy and cowardly bandit, to the fearsome mercenary.
- A team of 6 characters, each with their own very distinct characteristics, to manage in real-time.
- 25 different levels provide nail-biting intrigue, with cinematic transition scenes and landscapes that will take your breath away. Amazing artificial intelligence!
- Each enemy is ranked on 10 different criteria, including intelligence, courage, marksmanship, resistance to alcohol, etc.
- An array of different settings: day-time, night-time, storms, dusk, villages, ghost towns, fortresses, gold mines, saloons, prisons, boats 6 training levels to allow the player to really get into the story
© 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.
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Mac notice: The game is 32-bit only and will not work on macOS 10.15 and up.
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Mac notice: The game is 32-bit only and will not work on macOS 10.15 and up.
Time to beat
24 hMain
32.5 h Main + Sides
35 h Completionist
28 h All Styles
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Difficult, Isometric, Realistic, Stealth, RTS, Western
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User reviews
Posted on: April 3, 2023
Fr3tworker
Verified ownerGames: 48 Reviews: 2
Don't waste time on this "port"
I loved this game as a kid, but I spent about 2 hours trying to get it working on Win 10 and just about gave up. Apparently it worked until some update in 2018. If you want to take a walk down nostalgia lane, there's other games on GOG that actually work.
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Posted on: June 19, 2014
an0maly33
Verified ownerGames: 364 Reviews: 5
Confused about the high ratings
Couldn't play more than 5 minutes and had to restart once as soon as the game started. Games starts, talked to the guy that got off the train. kid took my attention for 10 seconds and I apparently missed that he ran off somewhere and I was supposed to follow. He would occasionally call out "Hey, come over here!" but there was no indication of where "here" was. I had ZERO idea of where to go. *Restart* Ok, I watched closely this time. Followed him. Shot a vase in a window. I was told to reload by clicking the gray cartridge which I could not find ANYWHERE in the UI. I don't have the patience for this kind of crap.
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Posted on: February 12, 2022
Quasi-modo
Verified ownerGames: Reviews: 10
Pretty but not well thought out
Honestly I only got to the third level before I got so bored of the grind that I quit. Hopefully the later levels have more options but level 2 and 3 basically you just shoot more people than an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, and you probably have to save scum to do so becasue as an isometric shooter it is clunky as hell. Ironically, don't judge this book by its cover. The GOG screenshots are very pretty. The gameplay is utterly irredeemable.
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Posted on: September 8, 2018
balkaster
Verified ownerGames: 229 Reviews: 21
Avoid this ridiculous game
GOG deleted my original review of Desperados. So I'm trying again, because sensible people need to be warned not to waste their money. Many of the reviews talk about the "helpful tutorial". No such thing exists. All there is is a demo mode, and all the instruction it offers is in the form of a pixellated screenshot scrawled with vague notes. It suggests that the game is a shoot-em-up, but if you approach it like that you will get all your characters immediately killed. Not that it matters; there isn't really very much you can do to avoid that outcome anyway. The tutorial mentions that the characters have individual talents, but other than vaguely describing Kate's without mentioning how it is accessed, it really has no useful information. About generic combat skills shared by the characters it says nothing at all. It makes a "Quick Action Mode" sound like the pause feature in most tactical squad games, which allows you to give instructions to all your characters before releasing them. But it doesn't work that way. With the mode activated, the character wanders off to get shot after giving it the first command. There is NO way to coordinate multiple characters. There is no pause feature. Devs felt the need to reinvent the wheel with the UI, and without any sort of info it's a hindrance to your already limited control. NPCs have conning colours to indicate whether they've detected the characters, but their aggro range is huge. Before you're close enough to do anything at all the NPCs have guns out and blazing, and they never miss. I'm not sure what to think about a tactical squad combat game in which combat is utterly unsurvivable. There are supposed to be stealth skills, but they don't seem to work in that they don't affect the NPCs at all. My original review called this a game for masochists, and I stand by that. Unless you enjoy failing literally hundreds of times before you figure out how to succeed--if you ever do--you will not enjoy this game.
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