8/3/2023 0 Comments Desperados 3 characters![]() ![]() The brown color pallet of the game is only disturbed by an enemy’s bright green vision cones and the character’s blue impact radius circles and there is a ton of detail packed into each of the different landscapes. For some of the longer segments in the game, this is quite a nice way to top off the mission.ĭesperados III nails its western setting thanks to aptly fitting visuals and sound. At the end of a level, where it shows completion time, enemies killed, total saves, and other stats, the game also shows a zoomed-out view of the entire map with a path tracing each and every move you made in that level. ![]() One other cool feature in Desperados III, that isn’t in many other RTS games to my knowledge, is the mission recap. This is great for taking out multiple enemies at once and nailing a Showdown plan always remains satisfying, despite me often forgetting about it for large chunks of time. It allows the player to stop time and create a plan of action for the characters that they can then execute at the press of a button. Speaking of working together, Showdown mode adds a fun twist to gameplay. The most fun is when you have them all work together. Although they are all fun to play, Isabelle Moreau with her supernatural abilities is undoubtedly the most unique. Cooper can distract enemies with a coin and take them out with a knife throw whereas Hector has a giant bear trap and can whistle to lure enemies into it. As I said earlier, each character has their own playstyle. Fortunately, trial and error isn’t an excruciating process thanks to a quick save feature that actively encourages you to fail and try again. It also means that each mission can take anywhere from forty minutes to double or triple that time depending on how slow you take it. This freedom of choice means that it takes some experimenting to understand each area and the enemies that populate it. There is a decent amount of options made available to the player on how they want to tackle each situation and, although some baddies are only killable by one character, most can be taken on by any. In each mission, you take control of Cooper and company to complete a set of objectives across a sizeable map. ![]() And, thanks to great voice acting, those characters are brought to life just as they were intended. Instead, the writing budget is spent on crafting five characters with distinct personalities that are fun to see on screen together. It doesn’t pretend to put you in morally grey situations or try to pull the rug out from underneath you at every turn. ![]() Cooper’s tale isn’t anything remarkable and for fans of the Western genre, it’s pretty cliche, but I actually consider that to be one of Desperado III‘s strengths. Along the way, he crosses paths with four other characters, Doc McCoy, Hector Mendoza, Kate O’Hara, and Isabelle Moreau, all of whom have their own unique set of skills and equipment. The game initially flew under my radar when it was released in June of last year, but now, while I’m in between games for review, I’ve gotten a chance to play through the first few missions from this RTS from German developer Mimimi Games.ĭesperados III is set in the wild wild west and follows the story of John Cooper, a mysterious cowboy who’s traveling across 19th Century western America in search of a bandit named Frank. Although while I have played racing games and indie games with pixel art styles in the past, one group I never tried before was a real-time tactics game. I used to primarily play FPS and third-person action-adventure games, however, recently I’ve gotten to play a variety of games from a low-poly racing game called Hotshot Racing to an open-world cyberpunk indie game with a pixel art style called Cloudpunk. Over the last few months, as the website really started to take off, I’ve been given multiple opportunities to step outside my gaming comfort zone. ![]()
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