NEED TO KNOW
WHAT IS IT? A real-time stealth tactics game set in the Wild West
EXPECT TO PAY $50
DEVELOPER Mimimi Games
PUBLISHER THQ Nordic
REVIEWED ON GTX 1080Ti, Intel i7-8086K, 16GB RAM
MULTIPLAYER No
LINK desperadosgame.com
There is no dearth of handy tools in Desperados III, so it’s hard to pick a favorite. The brutal bear trap that clamps its jaws around anyone unfortunate enough to walk over it has to be a contender, but I’m also rather partial to the darts that let you kill two enemies with one blow—through magic, no less. None of them saved my ass quite as often as the humble F5 and F8 keys, however, and the rest of my arsenal would be useless without them.
Every one of its stealthy encounters is its own puzzle, and every puzzle is a chance to experiment and, more often than not, fail. Desperados III is all about a team of specialists working in sync, using preternatural precision and timing to overcome seemingly impossible odds, but the journey to perfection is full of slapstick escapades and catastrophes. A split-second or an inch can mean the difference between an effortless display of teamwork and a team full of corpses, but with quicksave in one holster and quickload in the other, you’ll get there eventually.
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