Review: Helldorado

A wild west where no one survives

Helldorado brings the game further away from the old Desperados series, but the game shoots itself in the foot a lot of times. It can be fun at times, but to many bugs and errors destroys the good game feeling.

3rd person: There is even a third person cam added to Helldorado, but it could have worked better.

This is a classic western story, where you will play both cowboys and girls with cowboy hats. It’s a strategic tactial game, like Commandos, so sneaking is more important in this game than just flying around having a blast at everyone. You can do this also, but it wouldn’t do you good, unless you want your characters killed freely. Every character also got a special skill they can use. For example John Cooper is a typical muscle man who can lift enemies after he’s killed them and is always fast with his six shooter, Hawkeye is an Indian who can make war cry to trick the enemies and shoots with a bow and arrow, while Kate O’Hara is a woman who can seduce enemies and poison them with her perfume.

Ready,set,go!: Situations like these are always 50:50.

Help from the woods: Indians and cowboys live in peace in Helldorado.

The difficulty in this game is something else, when it is out of this world. Helldorado can be so hard and tricky at times, that you just give up and want to quit the game. The easiest difficulty seemed hard so I’d rather not think about what this is like on medium or hard. The game’s story are good at times, but a lot of details is let out, so you don’t really understand why different things are happening now and then. Graphics and audio for this game are pretty mediocre for a 2009 game and not really what i would have expected, but it have its glance moments sometimes.

Better graphics: Not all the particles are ugly.

Gamescore

Helldorado (2009)

Graphics: Looks very cartoon like when zooming out and a little better when seen close up or in third person. The game is anyways outdated and out of standards for a 2009 game. 4/10

Audio: I wish the game characters would have told us a little bit more, instead of just: Okay! Roger that boss! Sure can do!, when clicking where they have to go or run. The music is not so god either. 4/10

Gameplay: Are fun when you manage to pull missions off, but this happens only after a giant amounts of tries. The game is clearly too hard and would have benefitted from being a little bit easier. When it comes to the story, it is an okay western adventure story, but the lack of details around missions and why we really are doing things at all are a problem. Should have known a little bit more about what’s really going on here. 4/10

Controls: This is maybe the game's ace. Works well in best commandos style, where you can sneak up on enemies and have many opportunities to lay them to the ground. The game is usually played with mouse, with some keyboard features. 8/10

Overall Score: Helldorado can be a great game sometimes, when it’s not too hard or the missons are random. Desperados was a good game and i would thought that Helldorado would be to. Western fans will find this amusing either way, but if you’re not into the wild west from before, this could clearly be walked past. 5/10