"Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive" is the initial strategy to combine the mental challenge of a real-time tactic Game with an adventure Game's movie-based and story-driven ambience.

Explore a Game of tactics and strategy in this western-themed Game in spectacular real-time. You're in control of a group of six mercenaries, and you have to figure out how to accomplish your tasks, whether they involve sneaking into an enemy stronghold, rescuing a team member, or avoiding an ambush. Your six heroes will succeed if you combine their various talents.

Key Features

• More than 20 adversaries, each with a distinctive personality—from the sluggish and timid robber to the menacing mercenary.
• A group of six characters to manage in real-time, each with unique traits.
• With breathtaking landscapes and cinematic transition scenes, the 25 different levels offer nail-biting intrigue. Wonderful artificial intelligence
• Each opponent is graded according to ten distinct factors: intelligence, bravery, shooting prowess, drinking tolerance, etc.
• A variety of environments, including day, night, storms, dusk, villages, ghost towns, forts, gold mines, saloons, prisons, boats, and strongholds, six training stages to let the player fully immerse themselves in the narrative

Gameplay

The "spyglass" capability on NPCs allows players to view their vision ranges. The player can determine the NPC's mental condition based on the colour of the cone. The person is considered to be calm if the cone is green. A red cone suggests the NPC has recognized one of the characters, while a yellow cone denotes suspicion. Some colours represent special status, such as a pink cone signifying Kate's attraction to the NPC or a black cone, meaning Mia's blowpipe hit on them.

Another unique element is the Quick Action, which allows for the 'pre-programming' of specific actions when necessary, such as running to a particular location or utilizing a weapon against a pre-targeted enemy. Cooper, for instance, can distribute his three shots between up to three targets without moving the mouse by programming his revolver with Quick Action, which allows him to focus all three photos he can fire on a single opponent.

Plot

El Paso is a classic Wild West town in the southwest of the United States, close to the Mexican border. The year is 1881. The famed railroad business Twinnings & Co.'s trains have been the target of numerous hold-ups and ambushes during the past few months. The company's management has decided that the raids must stop because enough is enough. It has promised a $15,000 reward to anyone who can apprehend the gang's boss.

The Bandidos continue to rob trains one after another because no one in or near El Paso has the confidence to stand up to their strength. Even the town marshal is avoiding it like the plague.

Things only begin to change when a newcomer rides into town. John Cooper, a bounty hunter, visits the regional Twinnings & Co-director and offers to solve all of the railroad company's problems. He forms a group of former associates and launches war on the bandits. Cooper soon learns that this mission is different from what it seems during his pursuit, which will take him through half of the southwestern United States.