Good evening. You are listening to ThruWas Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakeney. And joining me tonight, we welcome back Katakus Luke Blunkett.

Thanks to having me back. And we also say hello once again to U.S. gamers, Mike Williams.

Hello, hello, folks. How's everyone doing tonight?

Not too bad. I feel like I've been beating my head against a few really tricky walls in the Old West.

And that's how I've sort of been spending the last week, getting ready to talk about Desperados 3.

We talked about the, we haven't talked about the other Desperados games on this show.

And it turns out that I'm not, I'm not sure anybody's actually played those ever.

I'm not sure I've ever met someone who's played one of the first two Desperados games.

But I think, I think a lot of us did play the, probably the actual predecessor to Desperados 3, which was Shadow Tactics,

Blades of the Shogun.

We talked about it a couple of years ago on the show and thought pretty highly of it.

Desperatos 3 is a similar kind of Commando-style stealth game, but set in the Old West.

So, Luke, if you can set up for us, like, what is Desperatus 3?

What, like, what are the dynamics you're sort of tasked with mastering here?

Uh, you sort of, you sort of called it a stealth masterpiece in your Kataka review.

I'm curious how for you it sort of sets itself a cut above your average stealth game.

Well, it's a, I guess you'd call it a real-time tactics game.

I guess is the back of the boxthe-box way of describing it.

So it's a game where you take control of a small squad of,

I don't know what you'd call them given the setting.

They're normally operatives or agents,

but we'll just call them cowboys and girls for this one.

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