The game is a RPG based in Chicago in the 1930s, an era heavily associated with gangsters and mafia.
Desperados 2 is the sequel of the successful wild west title "Desperados - Wanted Dead or Alive".
The gameplay is based on its predecessor but with brand new tactical possibilities in a beautiful 3D environment. The player is able to switch from an isometric view to a third person view whenever he wants, for example for duels, brawls and shoot-outs. There will be a great variety of setting for example dusty canyons, ghost towns, Indian villages and forts creating a breathtaking atmosphere.
Take on the role of up to 6 heroes including the famous bounty hunter John Cooper and experience in a thrilling story with surprising turns.
Real-time-strategy and tactic involved in an exciting story and a thrilling Western atmosphere
Varied settings including towns, Indian villages, dusty canyons, forts, wagon convoys and ghost towns
Double 3D view: pivotable isometric view and 3rd person view for fights and very close action
Several levels of difficulty and a new A.I. with more tactical opponent behaviour and more interaction with allies
4 individual actions per hero
Improved mission briefings
A new hero: Hawkeye, the Indian
5 actions per hero planable in advance with headword overview (Quick Actions)
More interaction with the environment due to full 3D interior views of buildings and movements like climbing, sneaking and hiding
The new physics-engine allows movie-like stunt effects
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
Helldorado is a brand-new, standalone 3D-real-time tactics game at highest level. The story leads the six heroes around John Cooper into a dusky precipice of a deadly conspiracy and through completely new and thrilling locations of the Wild West.
Clever combo-actions offer the player numerous unimagined tactical possibilities to put the fear of God into the opponents using tricky teamwork.
With the integrated movie-mode planned actions of the heroes can be recorded Hollywood-like with slow-motion and changing camera views, watched afterwards or even exported and shared with friends.
A mature and clear interface makes tactical planning and quick reactions on the opponents' behaviour easier. With an integrated tutorial mission and with three elaborated difficulty levels players will find their appropriate challenge in the Wild West.
Join the heroes and lead John Cooper and his five companions in thrilling and diversified missions through their most dangerous adventure.
Real-time strategy and tactics in a hard-edged adventure in the old American Wild West.
Breathtaking scenarios including the forgotten Rochester’s Jail, a stormy train robbery in a relay station, a bloody sunset in Santa Fe, an ambush in the dark and gruesome Blackwater, and a visit to the beautiful New Orleans
Enhanced Quick Actions: Unique to Spellbound games, this feature allows players to pre-schedule their heroes’ movements. Helldorado introduces a visual representation of intended actions combined with pause mode, keywords overview and tactical waypoint display
Combo Actions pair skills from any combination of two heroes for added tactical versatility
Movie Mode for recording, watching and exporting of your own heroic deeds. Be your own Hollywood director!
Switch instantly between freely rotatable and zoomable isometric and 3rd person views to gain the greatest tactical advantage.
Powerful, effective and fast-paced hero control using an extremely reactive and easy to learn interface
Exciting step-by-step tutorial gets you into the action fast – for beginners and experienced heroes, both.
3 well-balanced difficulty levels – tailor-made for your basic tenderfoot, average cow puncher, or hard-drivin’ gunslingers.
More than one way to play… and more than one way to score your reward. Play it your way… or all ways!
Avoid unpleasant – and deadly – surprises with Helldorado’s intelligent early warning system. If you’re clever and observant, you’ll survive longer.
60 different enemies with tactical behavior driven by our advanced AI system.
Use your enemies’ weaknesses against them. Use alcohol or seduction as weapons in a game of deadly cat and mouse.
Prince John Lackland has stolen the throne from King Richard Lionheart and put him to jail. You play as Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men, fighting Prince John and the Sheriff of Nottingham.
Use the different skills of your Merry Men to either fight or sneak your way through levels to complete your objectives.