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Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive

2001 · Strategy · PC · Infogrames

Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive is ranked no. 1,653 among the best video games of all time by GameForever voters, with an ELO score of 1,513 and 35% of duels won.

World rank

no. 1,653

ELO score

1,513

Wins

35%

Duels played

54

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About Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive

Play six Desperados, lead by the hero John Cooper in the hardest and wildest Wild West Game of all times. Guide Cooper and his fearless companions in the exciting pursuit of the mysterious bandit leader El Diabolo.

Breath-taking landscapes and a thrilling story create an unmatched Wild West atmosphere resulting in “Desperados – Wanted Dead or Alive” being a challenging team based real-time-adventure-strategy-game. The Wild West has never been this entertaining!

6 different game characters, each of them having special abilities
25 real time-strategy missions full of action
Award-winning full motion videos with thrilling plots
Unique sceneries including ghost towns, gold mines, pueblos, swamps, camps saloons, prisons and steamers
Thrilling gun fights, bank robberies, ambush missions, traps and breakneck pursuits
Spectacular effects in the landscapes including thunderstorms, sun sets, caves, fires and waterfalls
6 practice missions to get used to controlling the characters
Altogether more than 30 different characteristics to be used by you skillfully in order to survive the levels and to escape

ELO progression

Score moved from 1,500 to 1,513 ELO points over the last 123 days.

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