Desperados III: Money for the Vultures - Part 2: Five Steps Ahead Review (paul)
This isn't bad. It's one bonus level. And a good one.
As far as I can tell, the badges you win on this, and the other DLC levels, do not count to the Sheriff's Badge achievement for earning 90 badges. Some may consider that a mark against the DLCs. After all, a badge is a badge; and some extra help getting that achievement would be nice.
Nonetheless, think how many DLC achievements you've seen for bad, over-priced DLCs, lumped in with the base game's achievement list. Having those be a roadblock to that perfect 100% achievement game is no fun. This isn't quite the same thing. But still, having owning the DLC making a marked difference to your ability to get 90 badges, and 100% the game, isn't too far off from that.
Also, this level has like the 3rd rich person the game developer wants killed. Sure the first two were killed in cinematics, without player control. And, this level at least gives you the choice to kill, or spare, this guy. He's unarmed, and poses no threat to you, BTW. He doesn't even call his guards down on you.
They also sort of presume that, of course, we want to murder the guy. Over what? His overseers are assholes; and there's a labor dispute? We have nothing to lose but our chains perhaps? Or, maybe it's because he's trying to get the money first? You know, the money that belonged to his brother. Which he has a right to, because they're next of kin. Sure the protagonists are thieves in this story. But, it's like we're just supposed to presume they're entitled to steal from the guy. Guess what. Property isn't theft. Theft is theft.
I guess there's the argument that since the one brother had an empire built on wicked deeds, the money is corrupt, and therefore he shouldn't have it. What, all of the money? Are we really supposed to believe that a mass of wealth was accumulated only from convict leasing, and other misdeeds? And, how are one rich brother's sins the other rich brother's? Remember, it looks like the worse thing that can be said about him is his workers are over-worked, and under-paid. Maybe you still don't think that its right for him to profit from wickedness, even if separated by a degree. So that makes the protagonists what? Righteous? They're not giving this fortune to the poor! This is a payday for them. That's the whole point of the heist.