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Desperados: Wanted Dead Or Alive Download Game

At the time it was released in 2001, Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive was a huge deal. This is a strategy game that shows, you can have a great deal of action and cinematic flair with a strategy game. I am a huge fan of this series and pretty much anything that is set in the Old West. Download Desperados: Wanted Dead Or Alive. Western-themed computer game that balances strategy with plot.

For your health, rest about 15 minutes for each hour of play. Avoid playing when tired or suffering from lack of sleep. Always play in a brightly lighted room, and stay as far from the television screen as possible. Some people experience epileptic seizures when viewing flashing lights or patterns in our daily environment. These persons may experience seizures while watching TV pictures or playing video games. Even players who have never had any seizures may nonetheless have an undetected epileptic condition. Consult your doctor before playing video games if you have an epileptic condition or immediately should you experience any of the following symptoms during play: dizziness, altered vision, muscle twitching, other involuntary movements, loss of awareness of your surroundings, mental confusion, and / or convulsions.

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CONTENTS

The Story	4	Opponents			32
						Installation and				5	Civilians	35
Uninstallation		Heroes	36
				Starting the Game				6
Credits	46
		Principles of the Game							9
							Infogrames Customer				47
21
		Game Controls			Service Numbers

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THE STORY

El Paso, a typical Wild West town in the south-western United States near the Mexican border. It is the year 1881. For the last few months, the trains belonging to the famous railroad company, Twinnings & Co have been the target of a whole series of hold-ups and ambushes. The management of the company has decided enough it enough and they have to put an end to the raids. It has offered a reward of $15,000 for anyone who captures the leader of the gang responsible.

But no one in and around El Paso has the courage to take on the might of the bandidos, so the outlaws just keep on robbing train after train. Even the local Marshal is keeping well out of it…

It is only when a stranger rides into town that things start to change. Bounty hunter John Cooper pays a visit to the local Twinnings & Co manager offering to end the railroad company’s problems once and for all. He gathers together a gang of his old partners and declares war on the bandidos.

But during his pursuit, which will take him through half of the south-western United States, Cooper soon discovers that on this mission nothing is quite what it seems..

INSTALLATION AND

UNINSTALLATION

Installing DESPERADOS – WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE

Insert the DESPERADOS – WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE CD-ROM in your CD-ROM drive. If your drive is set to 'AutoPlay', the Setup program will start automatically. Otherwise, you will need to start the installation program by hand. To do this, double-click the 'Workplace'

symbol on the Desktop and then on the icon for your CD-ROM drive. Double-click either on the file 'autorun.exe' or the file 'desperados.exe'.

The Start menu opens. Click on the button labelled 'Install Desperados' and follow the instructions on the screen to install DESPERADOS – WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE.

You will be able to uninstall DESPERADOS – WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE at any time later should you want to. To do so, simply click the uninstall icon under 'Programs' in the Start menu of MS Windows or use the 'Add/Remove Programs' option in the 'Control Panel' item in the MS Windows Start menu. You can also select the installation options in the Start menu, which appears at the beginning of the game.

System requirements

•MS Windows® 95, 98, Millenium or 2000 (in administrator mode only)

•Pentium II® 233 MHz MMX

•4x CD-ROM drive

•Video Card 4 MB (NO special 3D accelerator card needed, Not compatible with Permedia 2)

•64 MB RAM

•Mouse and keyboard compatible Direct X

•DirectX compatible sound card

•DirectX 7.1 or higher (DirectX 8 included on CD)

•600 MB free on the Hard Drive

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STARTING THE GAME

The Start menu

As soon as you start the game program, the Start menu appears. From here, you can either start the game itself, change the installation options or search automatically on the internet for program updates or additional levels.

The Main menu

When you have started the game from the Start menu, the Main menu appears. You can navigate the Main menu and all other menus by moving the mouse pointer onto any menu item and clicking on it. The Main menu is sub-divided into five options as follows:

•Start Game – Start a new game or continue a saved game.

•Select Player – change the active player profile.

•Show Movies – watch a movie sequence you have already played.

•Credits – here you can see who created the game.

•Quit Game – ends the game.

Along with these options, the Main menu also displays the current player profile settings, showing the name of the player, the level reached and the total time (in minutes) you have taken so far to carry out your tasks.

Changing the player profile

You can create up to ten player profiles in DESPERADOS – WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE. Click on the 'Select Player' option in the Main menu, and a sub-menu opens where you can select a different player profile, set up a new profile or delete an existing profile (Warning: this also automatically deletes all the game saves belonging to this particular player profile).

Playing movie sequences

In many cases once you have successfully completed a level, an FMV intermediate sequence appears (FMV = Full Motion Video), continuing the story of John Cooper and his gang.

When you reach one of these cut scenes, you can play it again any time you wish. In the Main menu, select the item 'Show Movies' and click on the required sequence from the list.

The Game menu

When you click on 'Start Game' in the Main menu, this takes you to the Game menu, which contains six options:

•Play !– The currently selected level (see player profile) will start.

•Load – Load a saved game.

•Save – Save a game.

•Options – Change the graphic and sound settings and keyboard short cuts.

•Restart – Starts the selected level from the beginning.

•Quit Game – Takes you back to the Main menu.

You can also return to the Game menu by pressing the [ESC] button during the game. The only thing that changes here is the first option 'Play!', which then becomes 'Continue'.

If, however, you are in Mission Briefing Mode, where the characters exchange dialogue regarding the aims of their mission, the function 'Save' replaces the function 'Skip', which you can use to terminate the Mission Briefing.

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Save or load a game

In DESPERADOS – WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE you can save a game in two ways: the normal Save function and the Quicksave. If you press a particular button during play (see keyboard assignments), a Quicksave takes place. Each new Quicksave overwrites the previous one - there is only one Quicksave file, which you can load at any time using the Quickload function.

The second method is to save a game using the Game menu by clicking on the menu item 'Save'. The advantage of this is that you can give your