Others split the team into multiple groups, tackling separate objectives. Some missions require characters to be rescued before they can be used. It’s extremely rare for all five party members to be active at once. However, Desperados III does an impressively good job of keeping things varied. And this works well, for the first few missions. Hide, pick a target, distract their friends, stab, drag, repeat. Initially, I was worried that Desperados III would fall into that same pattern. Sure, there are ten different ways to tackle any particular objective, but there’s usually always a best way. The stealth genre has a bit of an optimisation problem at times. However, the western genre is literally built on cliché, and the two are otherwise very well fleshed out characters, so I’m willing to give Desperados III the benefit of the doubt on this one. Were I to be uncharitable, I’d take issue with the fact that the game’s only playable black character is a magic voodoo’ swamp witch’ and the only other woman’s chief skill is ‘being hot’. Isabelle’s blood magic allows her to mind-control anyone she likes, or link the fates of two enemies, so that whatever happens to one also happens to the other. Isabelle is perhaps the game’s most interesting addition, having clearly been heavily inspired by Dishonored’s Emily Kaldwin. Hector carries an almighty bear trap on his back – she’s called Bianca, by the way – and is the only one tough enough to take down higher-level guards by himself. New additions to the team this time around are Hector and Isabelle.
#Desperados 3 rating full#
The same goes for Doc McCoy, the sniper with a sack full of poison, and Kate O’Hara, who’s abilities revolve around distracting and manipulating guards. Returning heroes include Cooper – your typical cowboy – all guns and knives, remaining almost unchanged from his previous incarnation. Each character’s skills and abilities are totally unique from the weapons they carry to the speed they can drag a dead body. It’s standard cowboy fare for the most part, but it’s told engagingly and provides plenty of opportunities for sneaky-stabby-shooty action.Ĭontrolling a party of up to five characters, Desperados III takes the real-time stealth action of its predecessors and makes it feel fresh once more. The story itself is a tale of outlaws and lawmen, of betrayal and revenge. It’s probably for the best, then, that Desperados III takes the form of a prequel, taking us through the origin of Cooper’s gang. The first game in the series, Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive, was released approximately 163 years ago, in 2001.
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