Hector is mighty and can kill long coats with one swing of his ax He also uses a bear trap and can carry two enemy corpses simultaneously. Doc McCoy can use his bag to temporarily blind enemies and kill them he is also capable of handling a long-range sniper rifle. He is also a very capable gunslinger who can shoot two enemies at once. Cooper can distract enemies with his fake coins and also has a throwing knife. Some levels are about John Cooper’s past.Įach of the five playable characters has different abilities and skills that you should utilize to get the best result in each mission. Your characters can crouch to make less noise and be less visible, but this will be at the cost of their speed and agility, so you should thoroughly think about the tradeoff and make the best move in each situation. You can see the view cone of enemy sight and their hearing radius and should ultimately take the enemy’s sensory abilities into account when planning your next move. One of the essential elements of real-time tactics games is the stealth mechanic. Different parts of each level, their interconnection, enemy and ammo placement, different ways to make the deaths of enemies accidental, and all the other parts of levels are very well designed and make the game an ideal title in the genre. Like Shadow Tactics, the level design of Desperados 3 is also perfect. Games like XCOM also use the same philosophy but in a turn-based manner.Īfter finishing each mission, you can see all your movements in an interesting way.ĭesperados 3’s developer, Mimimi Games, has proved themselves as a very talented game studio in making real-time tactics titles with Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, which was heavily inspired by older Desperados games. Despite standard real-time strategy games in which you hire an enormous army and manage your settlement’s economy, in real-time tactics games, you are just controlling a few characters (usually not more than 5). As you know, the Desperados franchise is categorized in real-time tactics, which is a subgenre of strategy games. This type of storytelling is a great achievement that could help grow the fanbase of the game, leading to new installments in the Desperados franchise.Īfter the story, we analyze the gameplay. One of the most important positive points of the story is that it uses the franchise’s recurring characters in a way that even newcomers can understand them. There are some flaws in the overall narrative experience, but generally, the story is acceptable to be a stimulus for the player to continue the game to the end. I can say that Desperados 3, as a Real-Time Tactics game, is successful in storytelling. The game has some NPC that goes beyond being generic, but most of them are entirely typical characters that are just put to make the gameplay more fun. For example, except for the five main characters and two antagonists, the game pretty much doesn’t have other memorable characters or side stories. I don’t mean it is not great, it is good enough to motivate you to play the game from the beginning to the end, but it had the potential to have a more engaging story. One of the main things that annoyed me about the story is that it doesn’t have a lot of complexity and twists and doesn’t use all of the characters’ full potential. You should carefully check this view cones before acting at each level. The green areas indicate the enemies’ view cone. The last member of the group is a voodoo practitioner who helps the team get out of critical issues and then accompany them for the rest of their journey. She is rescued by John Cooper and the team from serious family problems related to the notorious DeVitt Company. Kate O’Hara is a charming woman with some tough moments in his life. Hector Mendoza is a sturdy hunter who has an old friendship with Cooper and, therefore, accompanies him in his journey. Doc McCoy is a professional sharpshooter, and as you can guess from his name, a medic that works for money, but anyways get along with the team, and with or without money, the team’s problems are also his. John Cooper is the team leader and the primary basis of the story form around his character arc. Two of them (Hector Mendoza and Isabelle Moreau) are new characters. Three of them (Cooper, O’Hara, and Doc McCoy) are recurring characters in the series we’ve seen in previous installments. Through the story, the player will meet five main playable characters. In some levels, you can use interesting weapons like the Gatling gun.
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