The best part is that no two characters are exactly the same in terms of abilities, which makes playing them together a blast, especially if you mix it up with the game’s new feature: Showdown Mode. Though not every mission will allow you to use them all at once, having to use any combination of them requires players to think on their feet and weigh how each character’s strengths and weaknesses play into how each mission is to be carried out. John Cooper specialises in throwing knives and killing two folks at once with his dual pistols Hector Mendoza is your big man, with the ability to lay down his big bear trap, Bianca, as well as lay the smackdown on the toughest enemy types in the game Isabella Moreau is the mystical member of the group, with the ability to perform voodoo and possess enemies for a limited amount of time, and so on. The five playable characters are distinct from one another, not just in personality, but in abilities, which makes gameplay all the more interesting. Players can use each individual party member’s unique skills to help distract, subdue, or escape from guards, oftentimes using their individual skills in tandem with one another. Gameplay centres around getting your party members to mission objectives by sneaking into and around various locales, filled to the brim with armed guards, and avoiding their view cones in the process. Given MiMIMi’s success with Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun back in 2016, the tactical and stealth gameplay is as smooth and as engaging as ever, and then some.

Despite some rather lacklustre voice acting, the writing is what carries the game’s narrative and gives it personality.įor those who played the original Desperados games, on the other hand, this will no doubt feel like a return to form for the franchise, where the last game came out in 2006. The tone of the story is generally serious, but still packs enough for some well-timed humour, especially with the banter among party members. Again, as a precursor to the original games, it provides context as to how Cooper gets caught up in his conflict with the DeVitt Company, and how he became a bounty hunter because of it. The story in Desperados III is engaging and paced well throughout. For newcomers to the franchise, this is actually a great jumping-on point due to its nature as a prequel to the original games. It follows the origin of the bounty hunter John Cooper, and his eventual first encounters with the equally-iconic characters of the franchise, including Doctor McCoy and Kate O’Hara, and their first few adventures together through the US in the 1870s against the dastardly DeVitt Company.

The third installment in the cult classic real-time tactics (RTT) franchise, Desperados III is actually a prequel to the 2001 classic Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive. In MiMiMi and THQ Nordic’s Desperados III, it’s all about exercising restraint and executing your moves as smoothly as possible, like a well-trained stealthy SWAT team. of A like a badass cowboy has long been the fantasy of many, and it is games like those that really elevate the immersiveness of that fantasy.īut there’s another type of cowboy game - one where you don’t explore the vastness of the wilderness on horseback or get into gun-slinging firefights with ruffians who stare at you the wrong way. Riding along the vast, endless plains of the U.S. In video games, much of that also rings true, especially with the hugely-popular Red Dead Redemption franchise by Rockstar Games. The Wild West is often romanticized in Hollywood as a place of danger, high stakes, and tons of Mexican standoffs (read: staring matches) between lawmen and outlaws.

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