Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive

Immer wieder eine Freude. Eines der Spiele die ich seit meiner Kindheit immer wieder spiele. Leider sind die Letzten Level einfach schlecht umgesetzt. Gegner können durch manche Felsbrocken hindurchgucken und man ist gezwungen die Level durch langweilige Tricks abzuschließen und der ganze stealth spaß geht verloren.

This is one of the best games ever made. Most people remember the Commandos saga, particularly the first and second games. But Desperados is not just Commandos in the far west, is the perfection of the genre. They took everything that was already incredible about Commandos and built a masterpiece on top. Desperados plays as the ultimate western game, you start only with one playable character, John Cooper who is wearing Indiana Jones clothes for some reason. Every couple of levels a new character is joined with a cohesive and logical motive behind. Each time you get a new character, you get a tutorial level to understand each of their very different skills. Main plot is that someone named El Diablo is commanding a gang that steals cash from trains and banks. There are lots of plot twists down the road and cool missions with unique mechanics. One of the best things is the OST, the game is fully musicalized, something that the original Commandos didn't do, with music reacting to what is going on. Calm, fitting music for the towns and deserts, tense songs where someone notices something weird. AI is also incredible advanced for the era. Enemies might sometimes notice that their partners disappear and start looking for them. Some enemies might be easily distracted by Kate, the female token character, but some others won't. It gives the game a ton of personality. Basic core mechanics are what is expected from this genre. Some characters are better either at stealth, melee or even carrying dead or knocked out enemies. You need to make them all work together with the resources that each map give you. There's also night and rainy levels, giving you and the enemies advantages and disadvantages. Including the short tutorials, there are 25 missions in total. Most will take more than an hour to properly complete. It's a very long game that it never feels repetitive. This is one of those special games that deserve a QOL remaster. The game is totally playable, even nowadays, but after playing newer games like Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, it's easy to miss things like autosaving and better controls in general. Don't miss out the hidden Star Wars easter egg on Doc's McCoy tutorial!

can't help returning to this game. been playing it for 20years now

The game features no achievements (Never did on any platform)... ... so I'm free to judge it only on performance and ...oh boy... Crashes once every 1-2 hours for me. Usually when it's been 10 minutes since the last save :)) The controls are iffy at best, Whenever throwing stuff (cards, stun gas potions etc...) You have half of a chance at most of it working (less if you're aiming on a higher level or inside a house). Enemies can see you through the floor if they're on the level above... that's annoying. The Ai either reacts to you approaching in stealth from the back or not... a dice roll every time. Your characters are either in range of an explosion or not.. no indicators but horrible consequences. The game fully expects for you to do actual shoot-outs... in a game not built for this in any way. Bad design This game joins the growing list of games that are better experienced on youtube in preparation for playing Desperados 3 (the good quality one made by mimimi). I'd love nothing more than recommend this game but I can't. I made it up to level 12 before the need to throw the metaphorical controller through the window... I'll let future me see if he has the patience to finish it, but for now... Under 49%, Not recommended.

玩完MIMIMI的赏金奇兵3后来玩1，操作不出意料的有些别扭，但体验还是不错的，底层逻辑还是那些，适合rtt怀旧党游玩，也推荐习惯老游戏操作的玩家尝试一下

希望有中文版！！！

Played this when I was a kid, it was challenging but fun to figure out the best strategy's to beat these levels. Replayed it when I was older, still a great strategy game to play, if you like to challenge yourself even more, try to beat all levels without killing anyone. Makes the game even better in my opinion!

So fun, highly recommend :)