Jagged Alliance 2

JA2 is a fantastic game, unfortunately its unplayable for me due to it constantly freezing/crashing at the same moment of time in a game. Reload the game, the same freeze/crash at the same time. There's workarounds on the forums, but they don't work for me. One star because it doesn't work. Would be five stars otherwise. Well worth buying if it's playable for you. I'm Windows 7 64 bit, your mileage may vary.

Amazing TBS but crashes out about half way into the game. have saves that if I load em and advance time it just drops to desktop with crashes. Restarted.. got bout as far and same trick. Also should be released with an advice to set it with admin permissions and how because on win vista and later this game cant access its own save files because of changes in security on the folders it saves to.... completely half arsed job by GOG team to miss that obvious piece of help we could all do with! Might work for other people but to buy a brilliant game and then have it be uncompletable is VERY annoying!!

One of the top five greates game ever created.

Once JA2 was one of my favourite games. A genre defining classic. The personalities of the mercs are unforgettable and the personality mechanic has not been matched by any other game to date. The rpg mechanics and the funny details are still great. But after playing Battle Brothers I can no more recommend this game for the tactical gameplay. The chance to hit calculation is obscure, how the line of sight works, how aiming is affected by all circumstances (like cover, stance, weapon condition, skills, mood...) Fighting alongside the militia is boring since the militia a.i. takes very long and is often running back and forth. The interrupt mechanic combined with enemies camping leading to frustration. The game is also very weapon drop dependent. As a result the game feels more like a game of luck than a tactical game. Even a simplified XCom is more tactical. JA2 also does not run flawless on win10 even with the stratiatella patch. Battle Brothers fails on the strategic part and as an RPG but has a superior tactical gameplay.

This is the mother of all turn-based tactics games, and the one all strive to be. Unfortunately, it's been a decade and a half since it was released, and the game simply doesn't feel as good as it has before. My biggest problem is that there is no way to alt-tab out of the window without becoming unable to go back to the game.