History YMMV / Desperados

* HilariousInHindsight: Sam, who bears a significent resemblance in voice, personality and role to Creator/SamuelLJackson and his characters, has [[Film/SnakesOnAPlane a snake]] as one of his weapons.

* CompleteMonster: In ''Cooper's Revenge'', [[BigBad Lester Lloyd Goodman]], aka "Angel Face", is a ruthless RailroadBaron building a new track in an area inhabited by a tribe of Native Americans. To vilify them, Goodman has his men attack treks and kill settlers while [[FalseFlagOperation dressed up as tribe members]]. When [[TheHero John Cooper]]'s brother, US Marshal Ross Cooper, investigates these attacks, Goodman has him murdered to cover his tracks. Later Goodman takes over the Native camp by force and threatens to have their women and children killed, should they ever try to rise up. After Cooper's group and the tribe join together to defeat him and his men, Goodman proves once more what a truly despicable man he is, when he gleefully tells John that his brother [[WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied squealed like a pig when he died]].

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The ''Franchise/StarWars'' ShoutOut mentioned on the main page.

* CriticalResearchFailure:
** Level 12 has El Paso under the control of Mexican soldiers, commanded by a USMarshal.
** One of Mia's lines when taking an action is "Confucius is with me", which makes it sound like she's invoking a deity and simply isn't the way anyone in the real world would talk.

* {{Sequelitis}}: The two sequels for the game are not well-regarded, having been met with lukewarm reception due to weaker level design and bugs. Averted with ''VideoGame/DesperadosIII'', which is seen not only as a return to form for an almost long forgotten franchise, but for the entire stealth strategy genre as a whole.
* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: ''Helldorado'' is an expansion pack for 2 but it actually fixes several issues from 2, like the unbalanced combat and the inability to melee attack an enemy from the prone/crouched position, it also adds some much needed improvements to the visuals, fixing obvious animation errors as well as having an option to have quick-actions pause the game, resulting in a much smoother and polished gameplay experience.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66F89OtBWYE The song]] which plays during ''Desperados 2'' install sounds like an Music/EnnioMorricone composition featured on a Western movie.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The ''Franchise/StarWars'' ShoutOut mentionned on the main page.

* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: Helldorado is an expansion pack for 2 but it actually fixes several issues from 2, like the unbalanced combat and the inability to melee attack an enemy from the prone/crouched position, it also adds some much needed improvements to the visuals, fixing obvious animation errors as well as having an option to have quick-actions pause the game, resulting in a much smoother and polished gameplay experience.

* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: Helldorado is an expansion pack for 2 but it actually fixes several issues from 2, like the unbalanced combat and the inability to melee attack an enemy from the prone/crouched position, resulting in a much smoother and polished gameplay experience.

* {{Sequelitis}}: The two sequels for the game are not well-regarded, having been met with lukewarm reception due to weaker level design and bugs.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Cooper and his gang are supposed to be the good guys, but most of the mission allow the player to shoot/stab everyone that has the means to take them on, not only bandits but also sheriffs, deputies and soldiers. Not civilians, though.

* CriticalResearchFailure: Level 12 has El Paso under the control of Mexican soldiers, commanded by a USMarshal.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Cooper and his gang are supposed to be the good guys, but most of the mission allow the player to shoot/stab everyone. Not only bandits, but also law enforcement men, American and Mexican soldiers.

* CriticalResearchFailure: Level 12 has El Paso under the control of Mexican soldiers. Who are commanded by a USMarshal.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Sam is indeed the greatest dynamite king west of the Mississippi. Too bad Desperados is ultimately a stealth game where such an ability is often impractical.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The ''StarWars'' ShoutOut mentionned on the main page.

* HilariousInHindsight: Sam, who bears a significent resemblance in voice, personality and role to Creator/SamuelLJackson and his characters, has [[SnakesOnAPlane a snake]] as one of his weapons.

* CripplingOverspecialization: Sam is indeed the greatest dynamite king west of the Mississippi, too bad Desperados is ultimately a stealth game.
* HilariousInHindsight: Sam, who bears a significent resemblance in voice, personality and role to Creator/SamuelLJackson and his characters, has [[SnakesOnAPlane a snake]] as one of his weapons.

* HilariousInHindsight: Sam, who bears a significent resemblance in voice, personality and role to SamuelLJackson and his characters, has [[SnakesOnAPlane a snake]] as one of his weapons.

* CripplingOverspecialisation: Sam is indeed the greatest dynamite king west of the Mississippi, too bad Desperados is ultimately a stealth game.

* CripplingOverSpecialisation: Sam is indeed the greatest dynamite king west of the Mississippi, too bad Desperados is ultimately a stealth game.