Bounty hunter John Cooper accepts the task, despite the objections of bad-tempered and contemptous US Marshal Jackson, but soon learns the mission is not as simple as he first assumed. The railroad company Twinnings & Co has offered $15,000 to the one who can stop El Diablo. Many trains have been robbed the last few months by a mysterious and vicious bandit named El Diablo. The game takes place in New Mexico, 1881. The English version was released in some regions in November 2007. A second sequel, Helldorado, (announced as expansion pack Desperados 2: Conspiracy but made into a full game) was released in mid-2007 in Germany. A sequel called Desperados 2: Cooper's Revenge was released in late March 2006.
As Cooper sets off on his quest, he is aided by five other friends and they work together in a real-time, stealth based structure very similar to that introduced in Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines, although an all-out gunfight is still highly possible in the game. He takes on a bounty to capture a notorious train robber named 'El Diablo'. The protagonist is a wordly knife fighter and gunslinger, John Cooper. In the game, the player controls up to six characters in a wild west setting.
Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive is a stealth-based real-time tactics computer game, developed by Spellbound Entertainment and released in 2001.
