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Game entry

Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive

2001 · Strategy · PC · Infogrames

After 82 duels settled by the community, Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive stands no. 742 among the best video games of all time on GameForever, with 1,623 ELO points and 45% of wins. Its best rank by family puts it at no. 22 out of 103 (2001).

World rank

no. 742

ELO score

1,623

Wins

45%

Duels played

82

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 1,623 ELO points over the last 215 days.

Head-to-head

Direct record on the most played match-ups.

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The standing

Where Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive ranks

The world rank mixes every family of games. Here is where Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive stands in each of the ones it belongs to. Its best standing, all families considered: 22 out of 103 (2001).

Where Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive ranks
Ranking Position Games competing
World ranking 742 5,110
Strategy 53 342
2000s 210 1,304
2001 22 103

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