helldorado

John Cooper in Helldorado-SKIDROW
PC Game | English | 2007 | Developer: Spellbound Entertainment AG | Publisher: Atari | 1,86 GB
Genres: Action, Shooter, Strategy, Real-time tactics

Helldorado is a tactical 3D strategy game set in the Wild West. It was originally designed as an expansion for Desperados 2: Coopers Revenge but eventually became a stand-alone game. The player controls bounty hunter John Cooper, known from the previous Desperados games, leader of an illustrious gang of six, including Mexican bandit Sanchez, native American Hawkeye, former slave and demolitions expert Sam, saloon girl Kate and "Doc", although it is not quite clear whether he really is a doctor. Together they must combine their special abilities against a large number of outlaws and bandits in various Western settings.

The key to a successful strategy is to stay undetected. The player needs to avoid being spotted by enemies and should not raise an alarm. By combining stealth and hit-and-run tactics which may be planned in advance using so-called Quick Actions, the player can develop a strategy to win the objectives on each map. Each character has different abilities, strengths and weaknesses. There are 15 new skills based on teamwork which allow the characters to combine their skills.
The result of a successful strategy can be recorded and exported as a movie. There are also different approaches for each mission, and they are rewarded differently.

Game features:
• Welcome to Helldorado an action packed epic set in the gunslinging old west where everyone makes their own rules.
• Gruff gunslingers xxxy gamblers marauding outlaws face off in 12 massive missions spanning epic western locales.
• 6 Playable characters each with special weapons and skills to choose from or combine forces with the Combo feature to team up multiple characters and launch more devastating attacks.
• 60 different enemies with advanced AI to defeat as you dynamically switch between overhead and FPS views in your mission to restore peace to this explosive western locale.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
• CPU: 2.0 GHz
• RAM: 512 MB
• VGA: 128 MB of dedicated video memory
• OS: Windows Vista/XP/2000
• HDD: 4 GB free disk space
• Sound: DirectX 9.0 compliant

Installation:
• Unpack.
• Mount or burn the image.
• Install the game.
• When installer will ask, install the NVIDIA PhysX (youll need this one to run the game).
• When installer will ask, install the XviD (only if you want to record game videos, otherwise, you can skip it, since game dont need it to run).
• Copy the content from SKIDROW dir to your distination dir.
• Play.
Note: If the game crashing in main menu or during cutscenes, you need to replace binkw32.dll in the game directory. You can find proper one in «proper.binkw32.dll.rar» (included). Original one that included in game officially also proper (both of them is official versions), its just old. Spellbound put it on disc by the mistake (i think) and thats why game crashing during cutscenes. So, you can take any newer version of this library (from the other game for the example, included binkw32.dll is from the «DeathSpank» and on version 1.9.17.0) and use it. I have finished the whole game with this version of binkw32.dll and can confirm that the game isnt crashing with it. All this isnt SKIDROWs mistake, but Spellbounds. Theres also no official (or unofficial) patches for this game.