Others have more eldritch endowments.Įventually you’ll unlock a gang of six outlaws, each with their own skills and inventory, ready to tear into the riflemen, shotgunners, exploding drunks (grenade launchers with apparently infinite ammunition), zombies and witches who infest every rickety wooden structure. Flynn can swap places with any character at the cost of one hit point each-great for pulling an entrenched enemy out of cover or finishing off bad guys with just a sliver of health left. Gin Carter has a short-ranged skill that can shoot through cover, damaging every enemy within its area of effect. The game shares more with Desperados 3 than a setting and a liking for the save scumming, giving each character special abilities. Once you’ve built up a few extra members to your posse, you can start thinking about different ways to approach missions. (Image credit: Good Shepherd Games) Dirty dozen Heading to a town would be good, as there might be shops there to tool up on new weapons, but first we need to check out that old hut by the side of the road. And it might be fun.įor now, though, it’s cold. Killing him could get you back your soul.
Mammon and his centipede express to Hell are still out there somewhere, making a mockery of both timetables and 19th century engineering practices as they thunder through the countryside. You dig up (sometimes quite literally) new members of your posse with new abilities, have short conversations, make decisions like whether to take supplies or leave them for the starving villagers, and investigate the uncanny. You wander around up here, discovering towns, mines, and weird things next to the road, generally getting yourself into trouble and switching to the turn-based combat mode to get yourself out of it again. You wake up in the overworld map, a departure from the XCOM-like base-building globe, and something more like Total War’s strategy layer mixed with a 2D RPG. I'm not sure how that works.Įventually you’ll unlock a gang of six outlaws, each with their own skills and inventory. The loss of your soul, interestingly, stops you from casting a shadow. And he seemed like such a trustworthy guy. The stakes were only your very soul, but if you'd won he'd have given you the centi-train, making it a very tempting offer. There, stoking the boiler, is a man who turns out to have some interesting powers of his own, eventually revealing himself to be Mammon, the devil himself. When it comes out the other side, it’s crawling on hundreds of centipede-like metal legs, which is unusual for a steam train. The loco goes into a tunnel, everything goes black. Train? Train? You forgot the rails! (Image credit: Good Shepherd Games) Red hot pokerīack on the train, you’ve made your way to the driver’s compartment.
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