Status badbugbear Nov 16, 2021
I couldn't play this for very long. It seemed way too dated, and the dialogue was super cheesy.
Might have been cool when I was a kid, but I'll pass on this game.
Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive (2001)
3.92 from 109 ratings
645 members have it in their collection · 5 playing now · 371 backlogged · 32 wish listed
How long? Main story 58h · 100% 29h (from 2 logged playthroughs)
Play six Desperados, lead by the hero John Cooper in the hardest and wildest Wild West Game of all times. Guide Cooper and his fearless companions in the exciting pursuit of the mysterious bandit leader El Diabolo.
Breath-taking landscapes and a thrilling story create an unmatched Wild West atmosphere resulting in “Desperados – Wanted Dead or Alive” being a challenging …
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Play six Desperados, lead by the hero John Cooper in the hardest and wildest Wild West Game of all times. Guide Cooper and his fearless companions in the exciting pursuit of the mysterious bandit leader El Diabolo.
Breath-taking landscapes and a thrilling story create an unmatched Wild West atmosphere resulting in “Desperados – Wanted Dead or Alive” being a challenging team based real-time-adventure-strategy-game. The Wild West has never been this entertaining!
6 different game characters, each of them having special abilities
25 real time-strategy missions full of action
Award-winning full motion videos with thrilling plots
Unique sceneries including ghost towns, gold mines, pueblos, swamps, camps saloons, prisons and steamers
Thrilling gun fights, bank robberies, ambush missions, traps and breakneck pursuits
Spectacular effects in the landscapes including thunderstorms, sun sets, caves, fires and waterfalls
6 practice missions to get used to controlling the characters
Altogether more than 30 different characteristics to be used by you skillfully in order to survive the levels and to escape
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Details
- Developers
- Spellbound Entertainment
- Publishers
- Atari, Inc., Infogrames
- Genres
- Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy, Tactical
- Themes
- Action, Historical, Non-fiction, Stealth
- Series
- Desperados
- Steam
- View on Steam
Release dates
- Apr 18, 2001 (Europe) PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Jul 23, 2001 (North_America) PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Apr 21, 2011 (Worldwide) PC (Microsoft Windows)
Related
Bundled in
- Atari Hits 2006 (Dec 2006) · PC
Rating distribution
5 stars
36
4 stars
43
3 stars
20
2 stars
5
1 star
5
Community All Reviews Statuses
Status norbit May 6, 2021
This site has separate 'genre' classifications for Billiards, Surfing, Track & Field, and fucking CRICKET, yet there's the classical nebulous "strategy" and "real-time strategy" for everything under the sun. Civilization, Starcraft, Commandos, ROLLER-COASTER TYCOON--it's all here for your blanket 'strategy' classification! Piss off.
Status Kazziodyne Dec 20, 2019
I used to play this game a lot as a kid, but was never able to get past mission 13. It's a bit sad that I played this after Shadow Tactics as an adult, since I really missed all the quality of life features it added.
The entire aesthetic and art is brilliant, it's hard to believe such an old …
I used to play this game a lot as a kid, but was never able to get past mission 13. It's a bit sad that I played this after Shadow Tactics as an adult, since I really missed all the quality of life features it added.
The entire aesthetic and art is brilliant, it's hard to believe such an old game can be so good looking - that is, until you see the cutscenes, lol. I really like the OST and how much variety it has: there's 2 "enemy alert" soundtracks, 10 "enemy suspicion" (I especially love Orange08, it sounds so goofy), and 20 "no suspicion" map soundtracks (I love most of them a lot, they're very cool). Each enemy/civilian type has several different voice clips depending on their current action, as is usual from this type of stealth game. What's noteworthy is how brilliant the Spanish dub is. I especially love Sanchez and Sam.
Some pretty bad AI clunkiness that I noticed:
- Specific in Mission 22: The police side will call a guy from the bandit side if they hear a noise and ask them to investigate as if they were on the same side. After the police guy returns to normal he'll notice a bandit is in front of him and kill him, lmao. This happened way too often too.
- If an enemy sees a dead body but then sees Sanchez in his siesta pose, he'll forget about the dead body.
- Cooper won't use any close range moves on enemies when on the stairs. This particuarly was a pain in mission 13.
If I had one complaint about some of the map design is how easy it is to beat almost all of them with just Cooper and Sanchez after Fortezza. It again makes me think of Shadow Tactics where the entire party was not only very useful a lot of the times but also necessary not only solo but also as a combo together. I really wanted to use Kate more but most of her tricks become deprecated in the late game where most of the enemies won't even fall for them. Sam too, besides a couple of maps where you need to use the bombs is only ever useful if you want to go for a snake cheese strategy (and in that one level where you can't kill anyone). Speaking of cheese, the nighttime levels are so, SO easy to cheese, it's a bit sad.
I know I'm making it sound pretty bad, but it's still one of the most fun games in my Steam library, and would be my absolute favorite of its genre if Shadow Tactics hadn't come and done all the same things but better. Despite all my complaints I can't bring myself to give it anything less than 5. It's such a cool, stylish and fun game. :D
I can't wait for Desperados 3 after hearing it got picked up by the same developers as Shadow Tactics. I really trust they're going to make it even more amazing! :D