designer desperados: wanted dead or alive
Spellbound was a German developer of computer games based in Kehl , Germany . The company was founded in 1994 by ___MASK81___ . The company is best known for the Desperados Series . Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in central - western Europe . It includes 16 constituent states , covers an area of , and has a largely temperate seasonal climate . With about 82 million inhabitants , Germany is the most populous member state of the European Union . After the United States , it is the second most popular immigration destination in the world . Germany ' s capital and largest metropolis is Berlin . Other ___MASK89___ cities include Hamburg , Munich , Cologne , Frankfurt , Stuttgart and Düsseldorf . ___MASK81___ ( June 13 , 1963  November 8 , 2009 ) was a computer game developer from Germany . Along with Manfred Trenz and Chris Hülsbeck , he was one of the developers behind the computer game " The Great Giana Sisters " for Commodore 64 . His previous employers included the labels Rainbow Arts and Blue Byte . Desperados : Wanted Dead or Alive is a stealth - based real - time tactics computer game , developed by Spellbound Entertainment and released in 2001 . In the game , the player controls up to six characters in a wild west setting . The protagonist is a worldy knife fighter and gunslinger , John Cooper . He takes on a bounty to capture a notorious train robber named `` El Diablo '' . As Cooper sets off on his quest , he is aided by five other friends and they work together in a real - time , stealth based structure very similar to that introduced in Commandos : Behind Enemy Lines , although an all - out gunfight is still highly possible in the game . A sequel called Desperados 2 : Cooper ' s Revenge was released in late March 2006 . A second sequel , Helldorado , ( announced as expansion pack Desperados 2 : Conspiracy but made into a full game ) was released in mid - 2007 in Germany . The English version was released in some regions in November 2007 .