Desperados 2: Cooper's Revenge

Desperados 2: Cooper's Revenge is a real-time tactics game for Windows, created by Spellbound Entertainment and released by Atari. It continues the story from Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive. A spin-off/sequel, Helldorado, came out in 2007, and a proper successor, Desperados III, launched in 2020 on Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One via THQ Nordic. The plot follows John Cooper, who vows revenge after his brother, US Marshal Ross Cooper, is tortured to death by henchmen working for a criminal called Angel Face.

Plot

John sends Doc McCoy to the Eagle's Nest, Pablo Sanchez's fortress, to gather him and Sam Williams. Doc finds the fortress taken over by a rival bandit leader, Rodriguez, and his friends captured. After freeing them, they reunite with John and Kate O'Hara in Santa Fe, where John has agreed to protect settlers on a journey. At a pass called Eye of the Needle, they survive an ambush by hostile Native Americans, but a US cavalry troop under Captain Clarke captures an unconscious Indian.

Suspicious, John, Doc, and Kate follow the soldiers and learn Angel Face bribed Clarke to stage the attack, aiming to spark a war between the US government and Native tribes. Kate follows Clarke to Fort Wingate, while the others return to repel a second raid on the settlers. At the fort, Kate finds the Indian prisoner, Hawkeye, too weak to talk. Doc patches him up, and Hawkeye reveals a letter to Clarke.

The group steals the letter, and John uncovers a signature: Lester Lloyd Goodman, alias Angel Face. They present the evidence to the fort's colonel, capturing Clarke, but a loyal sergeant stages a revolt. John's team helps liberate the fort. Back in Santa Fe, they kidnap Goodman's secretaries to find his accounting book.

They coerce secretary Morgenstein to cooperate, but when John, Kate, and Sam present the evidence to the sheriff, he reveals he's corrupt and arrests them. Hawkeye alerts Doc and Sanchez, who free their friends and recapture Morgenstein. They enlist a bank manager to open a safe holding the documents, but Goodman intercepts them, takes Kate hostage, and flees to the Sacred Mountains. John boards a train after them, but it derails and he's captured.

Hawkeye and Doc go to his tribe's camp, which Goodman's men have occupied; they liberate it and meet Sam and Sanchez. With the tribe's help, they save Cooper from hanging.