Jagged Alliance 2

This game is perfect for my Asus EEE 901 netbook. Great story, action, humor, and a lot of things to do. I suggest playing it a few times (just the first couple of sectors) until you can beat all the enemies. At that point you can face Vader and become a true Jedi -- oops wrong storry. =P Be sure to get the 1.13 2085 (zip compresssed install) and 1.13 2112 (rar compressed executable file) community patches: http://ja2v113.pbwiki.com/ A must have game. :)

This is the game that defines the tactical turn-based RPG genre, along with X-Com. It's aged extremely well, due in part to the excellent graphics. (in particular, the guns. Oh, so many guns...) There just aren't many games that get so many things right, and JA2 is one of them.

I started this game, set up my character, went through a mission, saved and quit. 45 minutes of play. I came back and couldn't load the save. I started a new game, saved, quit, couldn't load that one either. Needless to say, things weren't starting out right. I searched the internet and it suggested running it as 'admin.' Now I can save and load a game no problem. Having played for a few hours, having never played before, I am enjoying the depth and feel. Board game feel gameplay with an emersive interface. The game is well thought out and impliment wonderfully. It's not a fast game, but if you give a go, you'll enjoy it.

I have to admit I only bought this game when it was on sale for about $3 or $4. I wasn't expecting much at all. I am a big fan of the XCOM series and every turn based strategy game I play immediately gets compared to that. It probably isn't fair, but in this case Jagged Alliance 2 came through thoroughly and completely! This is now one of my favorite games and though I am loathe to admit it I believe given a direct comparison between JA2 and XCOM, JA2 is going to win out. It isn't often that a game takes me by surprise and blows me away, but this one did it. While it has its quirks such as being a bit buggy I found that it is something I can not only tolerate, but hardly seem to notice. It is simply that good and immersive. There is a good, but not overly complex rpg element to it which compliments the strategy elemet which is the main part of the game very nicely. The graphics really are not that bad considering how old the game is. The game can be slow at times and more than once I got frustrated, but the things it gets right just make all of those issues seem petty. If you want a classic example of turn based strategy done correctly you can't really do much better than this or at least I haven't seen or played anything much better.

If you try JA 2 from gog and after installing in Windows 11 it does not work. It stays in a blank screen doing nothing then do this. Open the game folder. Go to Data folder in it. Find the file "intro.slf" rename to something else like "introCOPY.lsf". Now start the game as before it should now work. I have not played the game so far so I cannot comment yet on it. I will set 4* for now and update this later. My goal with this is to let anyone know of this fix so they can enjoy what they paid for.