Helldorado (video game)

Background

The plot follows Angel Face's widow, who kidnaps and poisons Doc McCoy. She forces John Cooper to perform 'menial' tasks in exchange for McCoy's antidote, which inevitably brands Cooper and his friends as criminals—including robbing a bank and stealing a train full of U.S. Army weapons. While carrying out these tasks, the team discovers they are pawns for Mexican revolutionary El Cortador's plan to assassinate President Chester Alan Arthur. All six characters from Desperados 2 (John, Kate, Doc, Sam, Sánchez, and Hawkeye) return.

The game introduces a new character system where attacks are shown on the left side of the HUD and characters are selected from a circular menu resembling a revolver cylinder, replacing the portrait system used in previous games. A Combo System allows two characters to combine abilities, such as Sam and Hawkeye's Missile combo (dynamite on an arrow) or John and Sam's Brawler combo to subdue enemies in an area.