Jagged Alliance 3

While thirsty fanboys and shills are praising this game the truth of the matter is that it has a number of problems as a few others have already pointed out. Inventory management is very basic, crafting loot, no proper buying ammo., economy and days are very poor and streamlined. Mechanics are hit and miss. Characters are ok...some odd choices on who they kept at aim but altogether not many new faces or originality and creativity. The humor is either laugh or cringe. You can't buy top tier mercs at the start limiting you strategy of few elite fighters from the beginning. U.I. is terrible. I'd say it's a 3/5 not great and far from it but it isn't as slop as some other games, other then that the game has a high price tag, I wouldn't recommend it at it's full price and I'd recommend watching some gameplay to see if it is for you. The whole thing feels very mobile lite game with paper thin writing. There's something for fans here but only the big ones and only on sale.

If you are not fond of or can't understand the type of "outdated", "offensive", "non-PC" humor of games like this, you should autoskip it. But if you are looking for a great game with much fun, toleratable amount of bugs, perfect resemblance and nostagic feeling for the previous games, look no further. If you loved JA2, it's a must. Good graphics, nice ideas, easter eggs, fun enough story, great side missions. I can just recommend it.

This game reminded me of gaming back in the late 1990s and early 2000s; which is a very good thing. Particularly as a fan of Jagged Alliance 2, I was incredibly happy how JA3 turned out, it delivered on everything I want from this game series, from gameplay, over the plot to the humour! The devs did a fantastic job. Additionally, it has mod support which is also always a plus point in my book.

I began playing Jagged Alliance at the age of 14 with the 2nd part. I was really hooked on it. I remember that the German version was cut and certain death animations, like exploding heads, were missing. As a response, I had to get the English version in other ways. What made Jagged Alliance so special were the unique mercenary characters. I'm very pleased that they've finally managed to recapture this in the 3rd part, after the previous attempts in the spin-offs were rather flops. The initial graphics glitches have also been fixed now and the nostalgic Jagged Alliance 2 feeling has returned.

played JA2 more times than I can count, and when this came out I stayed away based on reviews at the time - I only picked this up in 2025 as I heard that a lot of the issues had been resolved. pros + IMO combat is even better than JA2 - it's intense and more dynamic, I like the different unit types - the new overwatch ability/interrupts are great as well + environments look great, are nicely composed + dramatically improved stealth gameplay, takedowns, etc + 90% UI/UX is great - managing individual inventories is way easier, etc. On the other hand, the new aiming UI... I'm just confused as to why this was designed this way? Feels like reinventing the wheel for no reason. It never bothered me much, just 1-2 more mouse clicks involved to perform attacks. cons - absolutely nothing about the characters (all NPCs, most of the mercs) made me feel like these were real individuals, much less paramilitary. everyone's dialogue is cringe and derivative (and often completely self obsessed in a random, situationally-tone-deaf sort of way). The whole thing has a very scooby-doo "he's right behind me, isn't he?" vibe and it's turned up to 11. Much of the character art is wacky which doesn't help - and though I did end up getting used to the mercs in my squad, I never cared about any of the NPCs at any point. I get that JA2 had a certain '90s action movie' vibe, but its characters were far more believable, the voice acting somehow infinitely better. Ended up skipping a lot of the dialogue on my first run because it was just annoying - I've seen film student movies with better writing than the dialogue in this game. To summarize - game fun, combat great, writing bad, overall recommend