Re: [DL] Desperados

["Leybourne, Brian - CLM" <Brian.Leybourne@airnz.co.nz>]

> > Has anyone come across a PC game called Desperados? It's just I was
> browsing
> > the new releases in my local store and found it: Old West 
> (1881) strategy
> > game, very shiney-looking graphics, a selection of 
> characters to choose
> > from, weapons including "guns, theft and seduction". Looks 
> nice, but don't
> > know a darn thing about it? Anyone?
> 
> Yes, it's a great game with very cool characters. Each of the 
> 4 characters
> you can have in your party has soem special equipment and 
> abilities. The
> briefing for each mission is done very nicely.
> The general playing concept is like Commandos. But it's quite hard.

Actually, there are eight different characters you can eventually have.

It's fun for the first little while, but my advice is to skip it, or at
least wait until you find it in the bargain bin. You see, the essential
problem with the game is this:

It's extremely hard. There are 25 missions, and after the first 7-8 or so,
the difficulty is vamped up so much that there's basically only one way to
go through each level, and you have to have split-second timing to pull it
off. So, you end up saving the game (25 seconds), playing for 5 seconds,
saving the game (25 seconds), playing for 5 seconds, screwing it up, loading
your savegame (30-50 seconds), playing for 3 seconds, screwing it up again,
loading your savegame...

you get the idea. It can take literally hours to play each level, and
they're not even fun hours because you're doing the same thing over and over
and over again until you get it right, save, load, save, load. It gets old
very quickly.

For those who played Commandos - it's even worse than Commandos was! (and
that's saying something).

Brian "Had HUGE hopes for this game, wasted my money" Leybourne.

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