Jagged Alliance 2: Wildfire brings you back to Arulco. Although what you find there is in no way pleasing! The population is being terrorized by a reckless army; in the meantime the main export goods are drugs. Subversion and fraudulence has infiltrated all levels of local government and the ever-present Mafia has his fingers in many pies.
You are working undercover on behalf of the US government and your goal is to destroy the mighty drug cartel. You'll need a skilled hand to put together the right team of mercenaries, the negotiating skills of a diplomat to get the sceptical population onto your side. More importantly, you must have the strategic genius of a general and the fighting tactics of a guerrilla.
Should you fail, your "client" will deny all knowledge of your existence.
This game has been patched to the latest official version: 6.04
Age requirements: ESRB Rating: TEEN with Blood, Strong Language, Violence.
Minimum system requirements: Windows XP or Windows Vista, 1 GHz Processor (1.4 GHz recommended), 256MB RAM (512 recommended), 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 (compatible with DirectX 9 recommended), Mouse, Keyboard.
Make sure you're ready for this one...
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Blackdrazon)
Leaving a review for an expansion set is a bit of a tricky deal. After all, there's no reason for you to get it unless you already like the original, and if you already like the original, what could I possibly add? Well, there's this: Wildfire is HARD, arranged by fans of the game to be the real final challenge. Wildfire is the tip of the difficulty pyramid as far as Jagged Alliance... full review goes, but if you're an X-Com veteran you probably won't even bat an eye.
So again, there's really not much I can add, like I'd normally do in these reviews, because it's an expansion set. If you’ve already played Jagged Alliance 2 and Unfinished Business and you still want more, what's stopping you? But if you're questioning the heat of the difficulty, get out of the jungle. Wildfire's not very forgiving and, besides, GOG is already filled with other turn-based strategy games for your entertainment.
I was fortunate enough to be able to get this game to properly function before Vista on XP. It is a very good game, gives challenge and gives me the fond memories of staying up all night when XCOM was originally released. The nervous anticipation of your next encounter and what the next turn shall bring. Thank you for preserving and releasing the classics.
Having had this game for just a few days it is one of the hardest turn based combat games I have ever played. Yes the dialogue is funky and the fact that the top two guys are now Euro based "boring background" badass dudes is overstated. I like the fact that guns now pack a bigger punch on BOTH SIDES of the game. ... full review
However I don't care for the fact that the bad guys know exactly where you are at all times. I spread my team out on several occasions without firing a shot only to have no less than 3 bad guys show up in a circle around my team members and summarily execute them. Also don't trust the pre-combat counter that shows how many bad guys are in an area. I just sent a 6 person team into an area that said 11...in JA2 and JA2UB this was possible...anyway before my last Merc got blown away my team had stacked 32 bodies up in front of them with at least 5 more coming in for the kill while my character bled to death.
Now what I do like is the increased team size making you able to have up to 10 Mercs in a squad, new and revised weapons and sounds and revamped maps. All of these things improve upon the fact that JA2 was a great game and this one is even better. Nice work overall.
As a side note Cheat codes will activate but will not work with this game installed on Windows7 Ultimate 64bit. That is the only thing that I can think of which might be causing a problem and my install is running in Compatibility mode for WinXP and one of the SP's.
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