Desperados Wanted Dead or Alive

Desperados Wanted Dead or Alive plants a movie-pitched adventure story onto real-time tactics. The year is 1881, Twinnings and Co's trains are getting picked apart by bandits, and bounty hunter John Cooper rolls into El Paso to take the $15,000 contract on the gang leader. He assembles a crew of six old partners, and the game spends 25 missions putting them through everything from infiltrations to ambush escapes.

Each team member has distinct abilities you must combine to crack each problem. Twenty-plus enemy archetypes ranging from cowardly bandits to seasoned mercenaries get ranked across ten criteria - intelligence, courage, marksmanship, alcohol tolerance - shaping who you distract, knock out or kill silently.

The campaign moves through deserts, night villages, ghost towns, fortresses, gold mines, saloons, prisons and boats. Six training levels ease newcomers into the multi-character control scheme before the real heists begin, with cinematic transitions tying the missions into a coherent western story.