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The basic game concept is based on the simple and unique idea of mixing infiltration, action, and tactics. Desperados takes inspiration from the most famous infiltration games and adds more relevant team management and tactical aspects, largely thanks to a 2-D view. The story is communicated through the 25 levels with beautifully rendered graphics. Six tutorial missions are integrated into the scenarios, allowing players to learn, test, and familiarize themselves with each newly introduced character's actions. The game features many different atmospheres: day, night, sunset, storm, half-light, outside, inside, large towns, villages, shadow towns, fortresses, gold mines, cotton fields, swamps, camps, saloons, jails, a steamboat, floods, waterfalls, caverns, fires, traps, rifle fires, escapes, and other swindles. Use classic confrontational methods such as knife throwing, brawling, sound diversions, dynamite and powder barrels, rattlesnakes, chemicals, lures, seduction, blinding, and even a surprisingly mischievous monkey.
| PLATFORM: | Windows Me, Windows 95, Windows 98 |
| CATEGORY: | Software |
| MANUFACTURER: | Atari |
| ESRB RATING: | Teen |
| FEATURES: | CD-ROM |
| MEDIA: | CD-ROM |
| UPC: | 742725216747 |
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Customer Reviews of Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive
Yeah It was fun when i had it I got this game as a FreeBie in 2001 out of a box of Frosties cereal and played it,yeah sure it was great however i never completed level one.It starts of where this cowboy and Doc. walk into town but another greedy villain rides right into the middle of the town but three enemies stand against him and all the civilians(the "Inocent" people) watch but they kill him and everthing goes back to normal and now your guys must save the town and get the enemies boss Dillons` money.When your playing you have a nice choice of weapons a silenced cowboy Colt-45,Sniper Rifle,Knife,gas bulbs and a couple more each charicter has his/her own weapons(i.e.Doc. has a medical kit to help his down partners) all these can be used to fight the enemies and you also have to bust some guy out of Jail.When playing you can use a horse to go fast,but this can alert some guards.You also need to use stealth to get around and kill guards.And it does not matter if you worry about whose an enemy,whose a guard because if you go onto a person with the cursor it can help because different lots of people have different colours a Guard=Red,Civilian=Blue,partners=Green,knocked out or dead guards=no colour because they won`t matter.You can also know the fields guards have in sight because where ever they look a "Torch" shines thir view.Some times if guards spot you or dead/uncontious partners the music starts to change into action-like and the witnessing guard shouts and runs over to his nearest team mates to send out a search party for you or the killer of their partner its quite funny,but the way they look around for a minuit and goes back as if nothin` ever happen is just what they do when they spot Solid Snake from Metal Gear Solid 1 on PSOne.you can use the Sniper to shoot down the guard off the church top finish off the others kill or knock out any guard by suprise in order to get passed with out being killed then get into Dillons` Saloon then you play Kate O`Leara who has to lure Dillon by doing her leg action or luring guards away using poker cards into a room meet up with the other guys bust a friend outta prison.Thats all I can remember it was probably the best �1.99p i ever spent on the game alone,sadly though my mum and brother blamed this game on some computor viruses and deleted the game and hid the disc/or broke it it was such a great game but hard. <
>P.S. This game is like The Sims=for the simulation,Metal Gear Solid1=for the use of stealth Commandos & 007 GolenEye=for the gun action and i love these games,by the way Desperados-Wanted Dead-Or-Alive is recommended for 12+,it is half 2D half 3D game but it was never my favorate game as it had annoying enemies and the civilians seemed to obey those bad guys.I.e it was fun but i don`t have it anymore it was a good mix of games and good voicing music detail and well graphics i suppose <
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>by F.G,Coventry,England Europe
Not ready for 3D player!!!
First of all, the overall reviewer rating should be higher if it wasn't for individuals posting 1-star reviews because they can't get the game to work on their computer. One guy below even complemented what he saw of the game, admitted his computer was sub-standard, then gave the game 1-star. WHY POST AT ALL THEN!!! I digress....
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>This is simply the best game I've ever played. I base that on the fact that it's the most addictive game I've played, provided weeks and weeks of entertainment (in just one complete cycle of the game) and I just love the format. My title above -a nod to SNL - refers to my love of this 2D format. I do play some of the newer 3D games, of course. However, for some reason I feel more immersed and in control of this 2D world. Of course, in saying that, I should note that this is also the hardest and most challenging game I've played. A given level can take many hours to complete.
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>Yes, it is a "Commandos" type style of game play. I've played Commandos and certainly like the games very much, but Desperados is superious in both gameplay, graphics and story.
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>Obviously, my review comes long after the games release (I played the game in 2004), but I'm now privy to information that Spellbound will indeed put out a sequel. The sequel will be based on a newer engine that includes both 2D and 3D style gameplay. I can't wait. Although no release date is posted on the web, Spellbound informed me via email that the game will be released in Fall 2005. (Just hope that includes the US as they are a German company)
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>In my opinion, this game is a true "unrecognized" classic. I did not go into detail on the gameplay itself as others have done a great job here already. However, I felt a strong desire to put something here due to my love of the game. It's too bad it wasn't more popular at that time though it appears to be recognized, at least, as a minor cult classic. Desperados should have been more, but I guess it was released on the cusp of new revelutionary gaming technology. Honestly, I'd prefer more games with this style of play. I guess it's a dying or dead genre.
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>Anyway, get a copy of the game if you can find one. It takes patience and is quite difficult, but the patience is very rewarding. (Warning: May become highly addictive, could lead to insomnia)
good but flawed
In the computer game DESPERADOES: WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE you control a team of people in the Old West who have each skills you can use in order to complete a level. You trail the bandit El Diablo through 25 levels of varying locales and difficulty levels to a final showdown. The game has a dark tone like that of a Clint Eastwood western from the 1960s.
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>The gameplay is remiscent of the game COMMANDOES, where you possess a team who each possess different skills and equipment you use to achieve the level requirements. One has a scoped sniper weapon, most possess normal firearms of varying ranges and magazine capacities, one can scale some walls and cliffs, some can entice enemies, etc. Unfortunately the controls are a little awkward, and you will probably be fumbling around when the situation gets unexpectedly tense. The game also has a few places where the difficulty is too high, which detracts from the fun. For example trying to rescue people surrounded by bad guys may have you trying again and again until you rescue the person by pure dumb luck.
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>The music is remiscent(appropriately) of a 1960s spaghetti western. The quality is decent but unmemorable.
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>Where the game really shines is in its backgrounds. They are simply beautiful, with a lot of attention to detail.
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>Unfortunately the game also has some bad dialogue, in particular the first few levels. It has some really strange things in it such as:
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>-Mexican soldiers occupying El Paso, Texas(the game is set in 1881).
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>-in the "Walls of Fortezza" level the American soldiers sound like Mexicans.
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>-in the "Piggies in the Middle" level American soldiers and bandits are fighting a pitched battle with one another while you try to sneak by. When you are detected by an American soldier he stops his firing and calls over a bandit to check you out!