Review: Desperados III (PlayStation 4)
Desperados III is a story-driven, hardcore tactical stealth game, set in a ruthless Wild West scenario. Play smart if you want to succeed. A good plan can make the difference between survival and finding yourself at the business end of a pistol.
Pros:
- Decent graphics.
- 34.77gb download size.
- Platinum trophy.
- Graphics mode-performance or resolution.
- Colorblind support.
- Control layout-default and four custom profiles you can rebind and customize.
- RTT (real-time tactical) gameplay.
- Four difficulties-Beginner, normal, hard, and desperado. Difficulties affect enemy setups/player health/player ammo/detection speed/amount of saves and pause during showdown mode.
- Subtitles-on/off.
- Save when you want.
- Tutorials pop as you play can be re-read/watched in the menu.
- Quicksave-binded to the touchpad which is a godsend.
- Full camera control. Can have it set to auto-follow if you like.
- Showdown mode-pauses the game and lets you plan one action per character, this action can be done straight away or save it for later.
- Click a button to show enemy cones.
- Prequel to the Desperados games.
- Unlock new characters as you play through the game.
- Pop up as when you last saved.
- Stealth elements.
- Beautiful locations.
- End of level, badges awarded and stats but it has this cool feature where you see all actions by you and the enemy on a map. It’s saved as a replay and can be watched.
- Baron challenges-take on already completed levels but with unique events and variations.
- 3 chapters with 16 levels.
- Five challenges to unlock and play.
- Badges-8 per level and are awarded for doing certain actions, think of them as bonus side objectives.
- A lot of fun to play.
- Slick animations.
- It plays like a solid stealth tactical game.
Cons:
- Small text.
- Camera control is tricky even with auto-follow.
- Slow starter as it details the mechanics and game flow.
- Long loading between levels.
- It can be hard to see enemies/interactions.
