E18 Desperados 3

Fresh from the saloon with dusty wide-brimmed hats a-tilt against the scorch of the midday sun, Ben and Tao turn gun-slingin’, knife-flingin’ cowboys and massacre their way across the Wild West in pursuit of vengeance in the paradoxically stealthy, real-time tactics showdown: Desperados 3. Topics include: when it’s ok to cliché, bad parenting, charming shamans, and if game themes really matter, so long as the game is fun.

Major story spoilers in the final third, heavily forecast.

Content Warning: PEGI 12. Some swearing, lethal dynamite and a bit of hoodoo voodoo black magic.

Clarifications:

• Music from Desperados 3 is by Filippo Beck Peccoz

• Ben’s Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun review

• Dr Bones McCoy Star Trek compilation made vastly easier with thanks to YouTuber Biribissi Biribissi, their video here.

Audio extracts:

• Rango

• Back to the Future 3

• Red Dead Redemption 2

• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

• The Quick and the Dead

• The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly theme by Ennio Morricone

• Taken

• Taken 2

• Mariachi Sol De Mexico

• The Wolf of Wall Street

• The Mighty Boosh S01

• There Will Be Blood

• Prison Break theme by Ferry Corsten and Ramin Djawadi

• Mouse Outfit feat. Dr Syntax - The Shaman

• Will Smith - Wild Wild West

• The Offspring - Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)

• Dr Bones McCoy - Star Trek compilation

• Dragon Age Inquisition

• Commandos 2

• Superbad