The release of a Wild West game after the great Red Dead Redemption 2 seems extremely upbeat – especially if you’re a small indie studio like Mimimi, the outfit behind Desperados 3 game.
Desperados 3 game game wisely avoids comparisons with rock star giants by taking a radically different approach – although it’s an action game, Desperados 3 game is a stealth game with gameplay strongly reminiscent of early Metal Gear Solid games.
As does his isometric standpoint – a sort of throwback to games from a bleak and distant past – which can put off those who demand a glitz of modernity. Fortunately, it catches the eye more than immediately – its apparent simplicity hides a lot of tactical depth, along with a sparsely delivered but interesting plot and a generally believable spaghetti western vibe.
Storyline
In Desperados 3 game game, you play John Cooper, a die-hard character who knows how to handle guns and knives and who is first seen as a teenager on a stealth mission with his father. Cooper is on the trail of someone named Frank (for initially unexplained reasons) a search that takes him through lawless parts of the United States, including Colorado, Louisiana, New Orleans, Texas, and New Mexico.
Along the way, he joins a group of Neer-do-Wells who form a proper gang, each with their own set of skills.
Doc McCoy, for example, is both a healer and a sniper. Hector is a tank-like person armed with a fearsome human trap and a shotgun that can blow up multiple enemies at once. Kate, who first caught a glimpse of her corrupt future groom with his own shotgun, can temporarily dazzle enemies with perfume bottles, wear disguises, and lead a short-range but near-silent derringer.
Perhaps best of all is Isabelle, whose voodoo skills allow her to take control of enemies (at a cost) and tie enemies together so that what happens to one affects the other too.
As in Metal Gear Solid, the gameplay consists of working your way through a large number of annoyingly watching enemies, highlighting visual cones. Teamwork is paramount: if you are spotted, for example, while pulling a body away to hide it in a bush, reinforcements are called in and most of your gangs can only fire a few shots before they die. It’s one of those games that encourages you to save often.
Magical Adventure
With Voodoo-Isabelle, the genre gets magical reinforcement for the first time, which enables you to use really crazy tactics. Among other things, Isabelle is allowed to mind control an opponent, for example to fetch her a key, set off a trap or shoot other enemies. Or she “links” two adversaries with each other with blowpipe arrows: Everything that happens to one happens to the other, like a voodoo doll and its victim.
If we knock out opponent A, for example, opponent B falls over too. If opponent A is accidentally crushed by a boulder, it will crush B ten meters away as if by magic. Isabelle’s abilities alone allow funny tactical experiments!
Stupid sneak!
The game world and enemy AI of Desperados 3 game are logical and believable. Guards and patrols look for us more specifically than in similar games, they also climb roofs, and even occasionally become suspicious when a guard who was standing around suddenly disappears. They free tied up comrades and re-light lights that we have just put out for night camouflage. When we walk around with a torch, we are more easily seen; and the torch goes out as soon as we hide in a bush.
Guards follow our footsteps in the mud (and allow themselves to be lured into ambushes and traps). Civilians ignore us when we march past – but sound the alarm as soon as we do something illegal (yes, guards-killing is part of it). Only very rarely did we have AI failures in the test, for example during a double patrol: Both men run shoulder to shoulder, one gropes in bear trap Bianca, who snaps loudly, but the other marches on calmly. Only when he passes the corpse on the next round does he sound the alarm.
Varied gameplay
Aside from the thoroughly seductive storyline, Desperados 3 game is full of clever details that keep the gameplay up to date throughout Cooper’s journey. There’s an odd flashback, and the missions are pleasantly diverse, such as: For example, defending Kate’s ranch from attack, blowing up a bridge, or doing detective work in New Orleans. Some enemies are so tough that only Hector can take them out with one blow. When he’s not around, a coordinated effort is required.
Desperados 3 game has a great engine called Showdown Mode that pauses the game while you schedule an action from each party member. Mastering this action is crucial when facing a group of enemies who never take their eyes off one another. Indeed, without Showdown Mode, Desperados would be nearly impossible to quit. It’s a satisfactorily tough game, just as stealth games should be.
The AI is also particularly impressive. While enemies will go down certain routes that you must learn to plan your moves by, they’ll quickly rally and bring in reinforcements whenever they spot either a party member or a corpse you haven’t been hiding.
Desperados 3 game is best when you’re apparently discovering new ways to eliminate enemies – like tossing a coin at a horse while a guard is running behind it, thereby encouraging it to exit.
Shotty is the bestie
We travel through the 16 rotatable and zoomable maps with up to five given characters. Three of them were already in the two previous games: Cowboy John Cooper, Doc McCoy and the feisty Kate O’Hara. Because Desperados 3 game is a prequel, the three get to know each other here for the first time. In addition, the bearded trapper Hector and, only in the seventh level, the voodoo lady Isabelle.
As is typical of the genre, they all have their own skills that we have to use cleverly. Especially since we seldom control all five, but instead complete fixed combinations or even solo sections depending on the mission. So Kate has to track down secret documents shortly before their wedding, only then does Cooper enter the map on the edge and somehow have to get through to Kate – and only then do we continue together.
Repetition value
The interaction between the thrown together gang is great too. There’s a ton of replay value thanks to challenges like going through entire levels without firing a weapon or running fast. A mysterious character named Baron throws off more challenges to lure you back to the completed levels.
It also requires patience. Sometimes you come across passages that feel almost insurmountable. Also, you have to constantly focus on which character you are controlling (although you can mark groups of characters to move around as one). Casual gamers may find this a bit awkward, but those with a particular penchant for stealth gaming will love Desperados 3 game.
It’s not the longest game, however – it has 16 levels, each of which can be easily completed in 30 minutes.
RIOT RIOT RIOT
Speaking of riot: The cards are teeming with objects that we use to extinguish opposing teams with a crash and make everything look like an accident. Falling church bells, toppling carts full of rocks, a premature quarry blast, spinning bulls and horses, torch-throwing in puddles of oil, rolling rocks in Indiana Jones format – it is really fun to set off the death traps with perfect timing.
Warning: the following paragraph contains spoilers
While some of these tricks are very obvious or will give us away if we overhear conversations, we’ve also experienced some surprises. For example a good one: Instead of laboriously organizing a torch to grill a long coat in his puddle of oil, we took down an escort with Doc McCoy’s sniper-colt – and then shot down a lantern bearer in the tumult as he was frantically through the top inflammable pool runs. Zosch, Long Coat done. Bad surprise: When we want to do another long coat from behind, we sneak past a chicken. Well, the supposed decorative element cackles outraged, the long coat whirls around with the shotgun, Cooper done. In scenes like this, even failure is fun!
Petra and Moritz Wagner, Design Director at Mimimi Productions, spoke about Desperados 3 game a few months ago. In the GameStar TV episode, the two talk about the difference between working on your own idea like Shadow Tactics and a license like Desperados.
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Sneaky Beaky Like
The salt of tactical infiltration in real time is indeed to propose to progress with a handful of heroes in the heart of a horde of enemies without having to raise the alarm. To do this, you have to be constantly thinking about the best approach and calculating the risks. Desperados 3 game manages to pose perfectly puzzles to players thanks to its intelligent level design.
There is never a single solution to solve them, total freedom is left to the players. For example, we can play lethal or not, knowing that if we prefer to knock out the guards, we will then have to waste time tying them up, at the risk of getting caught. We can also sometimes decide to use our firearms, even if it means making more noise and wasting our scarce ammunition. Elevations of the scenery can turn into weapons. The player really has control over what he wants to do.
Of course, not all our attempts are successful and failure being very punitive, we will often have to think about saving because it will often be necessary to reload. A small timer can even be added in the options so you don’t forget, and trust me, you don’t want to forget to save regularly. On PS4, the platform for this test, the loading times are quite reasonable . Which could have been extremely frustrating otherwise.
Moreover, for the console versions, no click with the mouse of course, but we move our characters with the joystick very fluidly . Small flat all the same, it is that it is not possible in these conditions to order a character at a precise point while one controls another. Desperados 3 game would have been useful to have a cursor mode as a tool for this case. Suddenly, some of our actions are slowed down because we have to move our heroes one by one.
Yes, as with any good tactical stealth game, timing is everything. It is often necessary to choose in the cycle of rounds of the guards, the right time to attack. Desperados 3 game also offers a “Fast forward” feature that speeds up the pace of the game. Very handy when you don’t want to wait for the guard to arrive at the right place at his default pace.
We see in these small details that Mimimi Games has a real mastery of the genre. All fans of real-time tactical infiltration will once again find superb sensations. Many hours of games are to be expected between the first run and the indisputable replayability. Many challenges can be fulfilled for each of the missions and special challenges offer to revisit certain levels in different configurations and with very specific stipulations. Those who like to complete everything will have a great time and the difficulty will be there.
Conclusion
Apart from the degree of hardness, Desperados 3 game game is simply staged in a stunning way: The Western atmosphere is dense for cutting, you can experiment tactically with the five characters, sneak almost completely through or start shootings every now and then. Your heroes comment on what is happening, and with very few exceptions, the behavior of the opponents is also logical and understandable. You even enjoy failure because you always know why it was and can optimize accordingly. This is what modern real-time tactics should look like. Be sure to play the demo!
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