Desperados: Wanted Dead Or Alive

Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive is a real-time tactics video game developed by Spellbound Entertainment and published by Infogrames for Microsoft Windows. In the game, the player controls up to six characters in a wild west setting. The protagonist is a worldly knife-fighter and gunslinger, John Cooper. He takes on a bounty to capture a notorious train-robber named 'El Diablo'. As Cooper sets off on his quest, he is aided by five other friends and they work together in a real-time, stealth-base.

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• Developer: Spellbound Entertainment
• Genre: Strategy/Wargame
• Originally on: Windows (2001)
• Works on: PC, Windows
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• User Rating: 8.0/10 - 3 votes
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At the time it was released in 2001, Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive was a huge deal. This is a strategy game that shows, you can have a great deal of action and cinematic flair with a strategy game. I am a huge fan of this series and pretty much anything that is set in the Old West. Even now, near 20 years later this is a game I can have a great deal of fun with.

It's All the Same

The story of the game is awesome and like something out of a movie. Set close to the Mexican border, there have been a string of train robberies by an elite gang of bandits. No one is willing to stand up to them until a bounty hunter and badass called, John Cooper rolls into town offering to do so…. For a ton of money of course. John puts together an epic team to take down the bandits, but the story takes many twists and turns and not everything is as it originally seems. This game is awesome from a story point of view and I have played through it a few times and always enjoyed it.

Only The Name's Will Change

The gameplay of Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive is very similar to the Commandos games. Each mission/level has you needing to think about each move that you do before you do it. John Cooper has put together an awesome team. You have Sam who is your explosives expert, Doc who is your physician, and who is also handy with a sniper rifle, you also have Kate who can seduce any man into doing what she wants.Each character has their own set of skills and abilities and it is how you use these that get you through each mission. Enemies will patrol around, so you have to use each location to your advantage to try and avoid an all-out gunfight for as long as possible. The controls could not be any easier to figure out which I like. It is the strategy that is the tough part and that is what a game like this should be.

Everyday, It Seems We're Wastin' away

As much as I love Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive I will admit that once you have beaten the game, there is not exactly a ton of replay value. Now, you can go about missions' different ways if you want. However, I always revert to the same strategies as I know that they work. I can see why some people have beaten this game once and then never bothered to go back and play it again. There is nothing wrong with a game being a one and done kind of thing I guess, but I am sure it will bother some people.

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I will admit that I think the two sequels, especially the third game are better than what Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive is offering. Still, in playing through this again for the first time in a few years I had a great time. It was amazing to have a strategy game be so cinematic back in 2001 and I feel that it holds up very well to this day. It is easy to get into and the game overall is a ton of fun.

Final Score

Pros:

• Each character has their own set of skills to utilize
• I loved the setting and the story
• Even now, the game holds up pretty well in the visual department
• Back in 2001, it stood out from the other games in the genre
• Cowboys will always be cool!

Cons:

• The sequels are better
• Not a lot of incentive to replay the game

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System Requirements

Processor: PC compatible,

OS: Windows 9x, Windows 2000 Windows XP, Vista, Win 7, Win 8, Win 10.

Game Features:Single game mode

Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive is a real-time tacticsvideo game developed by Spellbound Entertainment and published by Infogrames for Microsoft Windows.

In the game, the player controls up to six characters in a wild west setting. The protagonist is a worldly knife-fighter and gunslinger, John Cooper. He takes on a bounty to capture a notorious train-robber named 'El Diablo'. As Cooper sets off on his quest, he is aided by five other friends and they work together in a real-time, stealth-based structure very similar to that introduced in Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines, although all-out gunfights are still highly possible in the game.

A sequel called Desperados 2: Cooper's Revenge was released in late March 2006. A second sequel, Helldorado, (announced as expansion pack Desperados 2: Conspiracy but made into a full game) was released in mid-2007 in Germany. The English version was released in some regions in November 2007. A fourth entry, Desperados III, was developed by Mimimi Productions and published by THQ Nordic. The game was released for Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on June 16, 2020.^[2]

Spellbound was developing a follow-up with more multiplayer and steampunk-oriented elements, Desperados Gangs, but they shut down before they could find a publisher.^[3]

Plot[edit]

The game takes place in 1881. Many trains have been robbed the last few months by a mysterious and vicious bandit known as El Diablo. The railroad company Twinnings & Co has offered $15,000 to the one who can stop El Diablo. Bounty hunter John Cooper accepts the task, despite the objections of the bad-tempered and contemptuous US Marshal Jackson. However, he soon learns that the mission is not as simple as he thinks.

Cooper gathers a team of his old partners to aid him on his quest, consisting of African-American explosives fanatic Sam Williams; Doc McCoy, a physician, safecracker and sniper; and seductive gambler Kate O'Hara. His group successfully captures the notorious bandit leader Pablo Sanchez; but as they attempt to deliver him to the authorities, they run into (and thwart) an ambush set by El Diablo's bandits. This and Sanchez's explanations that El Diablo has an informant at Twinnings lets Cooper conclude that Smith, the company's co-director who hired him, is the snitch. Smith is assassinated before Cooper can get some answers, and chased by Jackson's posse for murder, he frees Sanchez from prison and enlists his help. Mia Yung, a young Chinese girl, also joins the team after Jackson's men kill her father at his outpost, vowing to avenge his death.

El Diablo finally turns out to be Marshal Jackson himself, who captures the group and imprisons them in his secret headquarters in a cave. They escape with the help of Mia's pet monkey, Mr. Leone. Cooper chases El Diablo up to his office and kills him in the subsequent gunfight.

Gameplay[edit]

The player can use a 'spyglass' function on NPCs to see their fields of vision. Depending on the color of the cone, the player can see the mental state of the NPC. If the cone is green, it means the person is calm. Similarly, a yellow cone signifies suspicion, and a red means the NPC has spotted one of the characters. Some colors signify special status such as a pink cone, meaning the NPC has become attracted to Kate, or a black cone, meaning they have been hit by Mia's blowpipe.

Another special feature is the Quick Action, in which certain actions - from running to a certain place up to using a weapon against a pre-targeted enemy - can be 'pre-programmed' and called upon immediately when needed. For instance, by programming his revolver with Quick Action, Cooper can either concentrate all three shots that he can fire on a single opponent or divide them between up to three targets without having to move the mouse cursor around.

Development[edit]

Physical copies of the game released in the United States featured an alternate cover art by famed comic book artist Glenn Fabry.^[4]

An add-on was announced, but it was never released.^[5]

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On 5 July 2018, Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive - Modernized, an update was released that improved compatibility with newer Windows 10 OS, as well as ports to MacOS and Linux, added foreign dubs that were previously missing from most digital versions, and its mission from the game's demo brought into the full game.^[1][6]

Reception[edit]

• Each character has their own set of skills to utilize
• I loved the setting and the story
• Even now, the game holds up pretty well in the visual department
• Back in 2001, it stood out from the other games in the genre
• Cowboys will always be cool!

Cons:

• The sequels are better
• Not a lot of incentive to replay the game

Download Links

System Requirements

Processor: PC compatible,

OS: Windows 9x, Windows 2000 Windows XP, Vista, Win 7, Win 8, Win 10.

Game Features:Single game mode

Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive is a real-time tacticsvideo game developed by Spellbound Entertainment and published by Infogrames for Microsoft Windows.

In the game, the player controls up to six characters in a wild west setting. The protagonist is a worldly knife-fighter and gunslinger, John Cooper. He takes on a bounty to capture a notorious train-robber named 'El Diablo'. As Cooper sets off on his quest, he is aided by five other friends and they work together in a real-time, stealth-based structure very similar to that introduced in Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines, although all-out gunfights are still highly possible in the game.

A sequel called Desperados 2: Cooper's Revenge was released in late March 2006. A second sequel, Helldorado, (announced as expansion pack Desperados 2: Conspiracy but made into a full game) was released in mid-2007 in Germany. The English version was released in some regions in November 2007. A fourth entry, Desperados III, was developed by Mimimi Productions and published by THQ Nordic. The game was released for Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on June 16, 2020.^[2]

Spellbound was developing a follow-up with more multiplayer and steampunk-oriented elements, Desperados Gangs, but they shut down before they could find a publisher.^[3]

Plot[edit]

The game takes place in 1881. Many trains have been robbed the last few months by a mysterious and vicious bandit known as El Diablo. The railroad company Twinnings & Co has offered $15,000 to the one who can stop El Diablo. Bounty hunter John Cooper accepts the task, despite the objections of the bad-tempered and contemptuous US Marshal Jackson. However, he soon learns that the mission is not as simple as he thinks.

Cooper gathers a team of his old partners to aid him on his quest, consisting of African-American explosives fanatic Sam Williams; Doc McCoy, a physician, safecracker and sniper; and seductive gambler Kate O'Hara. His group successfully captures the notorious bandit leader Pablo Sanchez; but as they attempt to deliver him to the authorities, they run into (and thwart) an ambush set by El Diablo's bandits. This and Sanchez's explanations that El Diablo has an informant at Twinnings lets Cooper conclude that Smith, the company's co-director who hired him, is the snitch. Smith is assassinated before Cooper can get some answers, and chased by Jackson's posse for murder, he frees Sanchez from prison and enlists his help. Mia Yung, a young Chinese girl, also joins the team after Jackson's men kill her father at his outpost, vowing to avenge his death.

El Diablo finally turns out to be Marshal Jackson himself, who captures the group and imprisons them in his secret headquarters in a cave. They escape with the help of Mia's pet monkey, Mr. Leone. Cooper chases El Diablo up to his office and kills him in the subsequent gunfight.

Gameplay[edit]

The player can use a 'spyglass' function on NPCs to see their fields of vision. Depending on the color of the cone, the player can see the mental state of the NPC. If the cone is green, it means the person is calm. Similarly, a yellow cone signifies suspicion, and a red means the NPC has spotted one of the characters. Some colors signify special status such as a pink cone, meaning the NPC has become attracted to Kate, or a black cone, meaning they have been hit by Mia's blowpipe.

Another special feature is the Quick Action, in which certain actions - from running to a certain place up to using a weapon against a pre-targeted enemy - can be 'pre-programmed' and called upon immediately when needed. For instance, by programming his revolver with Quick Action, Cooper can either concentrate all three shots that he can fire on a single opponent or divide them between up to three targets without having to move the mouse cursor around.

Development[edit]

Physical copies of the game released in the United States featured an alternate cover art by famed comic book artist Glenn Fabry.^[4]

An add-on was announced, but it was never released.^[5]

Desperados: Wanted Dead Or Alive Pc Cheats

On 5 July 2018, Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive - Modernized, an update was released that improved compatibility with newer Windows 10 OS, as well as ports to MacOS and Linux, added foreign dubs that were previously missing from most digital versions, and its mission from the game's demo brought into the full game.^[1][6]

Reception[edit]

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Rob Smolka reviewed the PC version of the game for Next Generation, rating it four stars out of five, and stated that 'This gets an extra star just for being that rare Western-themes game that does justice to its source. Stick with it through the tough times, or you'll miss out on a great story and a stable full of action.'^[16]

The game received 'generally favorable reviews' according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.^[7]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abMegalomaniacNG (5 July 2018). 'Update: Modern System Compatibility (Win8, Win10, Mac and Linux support) and Demo Level added!'. Steam Community. Valve. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
2. ^https://desperadosgame.com/
3. ^'Desperados Gangs [Cancelled - Xbox 360 / PS3 / PSvita / PC]'. Unseen64. 28 May 2012. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
4. ^'Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive (2001) box cover art'. MobyGames. Blue Flame Labs. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
5. ^'Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive (2001) Trivia'. MobyGames. Blue Flame Labs. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
6. ^'Desperados now updated to shoot straight on modern systems'. GOG.com. CD Projekt. 11 July 2018. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
7. ^ ^ab'Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive for PC Reviews'. Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
8. ^Abner, William (21 August 2001). 'Desperados - Wanted Dead or Alive'. Computer Games Magazine. theGlobe.com. Archived from the original on 12 August 2004.
9. ^Kapalka, Jason (October 2001). 'A Fistful of Puzzles (Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive Review)'(PDF). Computer Gaming World. No. 207. Ziff Davis. p. 95. Archived from the original on 26 March 2004. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
10. ^Edge staff (May 2001). 'Desperados [Wanted Dead or Alive]'. Edge. No. 97. Future plc. pp. 70–71. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
11. ^Mason, Lisa (September 2001). 'Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive'. Game Informer. No. 101. FuncoLand. Archived from the original on 26 August 2008. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
12. ^Osborne, Scott (23 July 2001). 'Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive Review'. GameSpot. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
13. ^Hansen, Philip (3 October 2001). 'Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive'. GameSpy. IGN Entertainment. Archived from the original on 17 February 2005. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
14. ^Lupos (21 September 2001). 'Desperados - Wanted Dead or Alive Review'. GameZone. Archived from the original on 30 April 2008. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
15. ^Butts, Steve (24 July 2001). 'Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive'. IGN. Ziff Davis. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
16. ^ ^abSmolka, Rob (October 2001). 'Finals'. Next Generation. Vol. 4 no. 10. Imagine Media. p. 99.
17. ^Chan, Norman (October 2001). 'Desperados [Wanted Dead or Alive]'. PC Gamer. Vol. 8 no. 10. Imagine Media. Archived from the original on 13 October 2001.

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