One of the most polished isometric stealth strategy / real time tactics games (probably due to the amazing motion capture used), acting in as a prequel to the Desperados series, which of course was itself at the time an homage to the Commandos games. It would be amiss not to mention developer Mimimi's previous game Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun from late 2016 due to sharing some character skills, but it is balanced between which characters ended up having said skills (like Cooper being similar to Hayato despite almost having his skillset from Wanted Dead or Alive from 2001), and of course, the stealth genre in a mostly realistic setting can only have so many stealth based tactics. It is not "Ninjas in the Wild West". Desperados III succeeds here with the addition of Isabelle and being able to link the fate of 2 targets from one singular ability. The art team and composer Filippo Beck Peccoz have also created something that both screams "yeah, it's a Wild West game all right" while also being tasteful and plenty creative.

Reviewed on Jun 20, 2023


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