Jagged Alliance 2

This game is simply glorious. Everyone else described the game pretty well, so I'll focus on the mods, which are IMO necessary nowadays. First you've got the 1.13, which is pretty much the base for every other modern JA2 mod, it's impossible to elaborate on it in this short review, but it changes, and more importantly, adds a ton of features, including paradropping on to the battlefield, covert actions, mobile militia and different roles for enemy soldiers and assassins. My personal favorite are mods based on AFS (Arulco Folding Stock), made by Wil473. There are three, aforementioned AFS, which is pretty much regular JA2 campaign with new weapons and gear. Then you've got Urban Chaos 1.13 and Arulco Revisited 1.13, which change the story and maps and are based on classic mods. Then there's AIMNAS, pretty much a constant work in progress, but a very impressive mod nonetheless, it adds massive amounts of gear, but the main highlight of it is the so called big maps project which changes tactical map sizes to behemoths challenging the capabilites of games engine. And finally, Straciatella Project, which basically a bugfixing and OS compatibility mod, doesn't add new features, but tries to iron out any problems with the base game and make it compatible with most modern operating systems. (Seems to me like this description doesn't do it justice, but I've never personally used it, only read about it) If you're interested, go to Bear's Pit, it's the main JA2 modding site, lots of really helpful and giving people over there and there's a couple of other mods to check out as well.

Amazing game. Hard to get to work with 1.13 or stracciatella for mac though. I downloaded it a while back and got it to work. Haven't been able to get i to work with this time around though.

Love it.

Played this to death back in the '00s. Still fun, forgot how slow-paced it is.

One of the best games ever created, with 1.13 it's even better.