Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive review (PC)  CNET Editors'
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stars No reviews. Write a review  The vivid and inviting setting
in Desperados can't make up for some substantial gameplay flaws.
If Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive looks a lot like the Wild
West version of Pyro Studios' Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines,
it's a case of where appearances aren't deceiving. Instead of
being set in World War II, this character-based real-time
strategy game puts you on the old American frontier. You'll
gather up a group of desperados to recover money stolen from a
railroad, and then you progress through a series of clichÃ©d
plot twists centering on dirty dealing, double crossing, and
lots of Mexican banditos led by a villain named El Diablo.
Familiarity doesn't always breed contempt, though, and the
game's atmosphere is engaging and even charming, precisely
because it plays so well on our Hollywood vision of the West.
Unfortunately, the vivid and inviting settin