Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive

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Product Details

• Our recommended age: 12 - 20 years
• Manufacturer recommended age: 0 months and up
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005ASG9
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.9 x 1.6 inches ; 0.6 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: July 25, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #9,760 in Video Games (See Bestsellers in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description
Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive is a PC game offering highly challenging yet fun and easy-to-learn gameplay. You are in control of a gang of six desperados (John Cooper and his five allies), who you lead through 25 challenging levels. In each level you'll face a large number of obstacles and enemies. Your task is to make your way through each level without getting caught or killed.

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.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb Action/Strategy/Role Playing game, August 10, 2001

By	IGJ (Canada) - See all my reviews

Desperados is one of the best games I've played in a long time! The first thing that intrigued me about the game was the western setting. Unlike so many other gaming genres, the wild west has been left alone for the most part with only occasional titles such as Lucas Arts "Outlaws".

The game itself plays very similar to Commandos (a game I'm only vaguely familiar with). You control as many as six different characters with 5 different attributes/skills each. The key is to determine which character matched with which skill is the right combination for a given task or mission. While some of the actions seemingly overlap or look to be the same function (ie same result different routes to get there), you quickly realize as you progress through the game that the functions vary greatly in their effectiveness based on the enemy character they are used on.

The most interesting thing about Desperados is it forces the gamer to rely on skill, cunning and the ability to think out a plan before executing. Poorly executed or incomplete plans will quickly get you killed in this game. Efficiency is also important, if you fail to properly budget your resources, it will become extremely difficult or impossible to finish a level without restarting.

To play this game you relly need a fairly good dose of patience in the early levels as you adjust to the interface and the way the game plays. As you build your gang through the game every time you add a new chracter, you are given an in-game tutorial level with just that character to practice and demonstrate that character's skills. These 6 levels are included in the 25 listed on the box, so in essence, you really have only 19 full levels.

Overall I've found this game a great break from the usual first person shooter or age of warcaraft style strategy game I usually play. I would recommend this to gamers who are patient and not easily frustrated, generally those in the above 18 category or gamers who need another "Commandos"-style fix. A word of caution, save frequently as you are bound to make a lot of mistakes and the game always makes you re-start the level from scratch when you die.

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb !!, June 11, 2001

By	Levent Subasi (Ankara Turkey) - See all my reviews

I have recently bought this game and it is beyond my expectations. I don't know how they managed to put so much fun into one CD. It is similar to the 'Commandos' game but a lot better. AI is far more better which makes this game harder. It consists of 25 levels and each level is played on a different map. Each map has its own goal. Sometimes it is a rescue operation or sometimes it is complete destruction. Most importantly, the story is great. Levels are connected to each other in a sensible fashion.

You start the game with Cooper, who owns a gun, knife and clock. The first level is a tutorial, and you can learn how to use these objects. Also you will notice that, Cooper is the only member of your team who can use his fist to knock out enemies and climb certain rocks. As the game progresses, your team starts to build up.

I will not tell you more as I want you to see the game with your own eyes. Buy it, you won't regret it.

By the way, at the start menu, you can see the time you have spent in the game so far. (It took 2378 minutes for me to finish all the levels :))

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Desperados:The best wild west game on the market, October 20, 2002

By A Customer

Desperados:Wanted dead or alive gives you fun for months maybe years. I bought the game in the last january, and I still play it about once in a week. Because the game is hard enough you need at least 24 hours of play to complete it (I needed 32 hours)
The best thing in the game is that you need to plan your moves carefully before you do them (running midle of enemy army will lead you very quicly to death) I was lucky to find the game, wish you are that lucky too...