Jagged Alliance 3

I finished my first run through and it wont be my last: Haemimont did finally break the spell of bad JA-Successors and did not only publish a terrific sequel but a very good game by all criteria. Highlight: The many mercs and the very good voice acting and the tactical fights. The strategic layer works, the inventory management is a bit rocky. Buy this game!

Good fights, nice atmosphere, some quests are not as straightforward as one would expect

would have wished for maybe a few more mercenaries to choose from, but I am overall very pleased with the game so far...

First of all this game lacks a game manual. Second, this game no longer works on any of my computers all of a sudden. (Tactical screen blacks out. It was fine for 2 days, so there must have been a GOG update. I tried it on 2 different computers.) Third The offline installers cannot correct #2 above. So I basically wasted my money. On the other had, the game is fun even though there are major changes in the User Interface ans some game mechanics.

Ok, this is Jagged Alliance. Applause for the creators. But why max 3 stars? Because while the execution, graphics and gameplay are very good, unfortunately the gameplay is a rehash of the old one. And I don't like it when a game makes a fool out of me and I have to do the same thing over and over again because of such mechanics. So the downsides: -why do weapons break down so quickly? It is pointless and a hindrance by force; -Why is there nothing left after killing enemies 50% of the time? Ok it could be a broken weapon, but why after killing the MG guy did his weapon magically evaporate? Why such stupidity as in the old JA2. I get it, we're continuing the series, but why not fix the mistakes of the old game? After all, I'm not going to take everything anyway since we have a weight limit. But why isn't there even ammunition left next to the corpses? -The first small island, and I generally get tired of the style: wounded mercenaries, I treat them, the enemy occupies the village. I have a militia there, but I go to help them. I win, but I have wounded again. The enemy's weapons have evaporated. I repeat the cycle...and again. ANNOYING AND TIRING. -it's also easy to make a missclick that ruins the whole mission. The system is not intuitive.