Jagged Alliance 3

This mix of live and turn based just doesn't work - Choose one or the other, this mix of things is just not working. The game mechanics are terrible - You can't loot corpses for the gear that they had, just on occasion, if you are really, really lucky, the game might be generous enough to give you a single piece of shiny kit. - The game cheats egregiously and obviously. You can max out your stats and still not hit consistently at reasonable ranges with good weapons. The enemy can one shot you across the map with an assault rifle in full auto, enemies have far more AP than any merc you can field... Just so many things wrong. - The controls are archaic, annoying, restrictive, ill thought out, and just not commensurate with a modern title. The sound design is ridiculous - I DON'T want the characters to talk at me constantly. Every click. Every action. In ways that are supposed to be funny and endearing. No. Just no. Everything about this game just adds up to be terrible. Deeply and abidingly disappointed. If this is the latest and greatest this series has to offer I will not be looking at the earlier offerings.

Since this game doesn't respect my time I won't bother putting much energy into a review. In short: A good game would be one that's well paced, has comprehensible mechanics and fair, progressive design. You'd load a savegame at the start of a session, or when you tried something out. Well, then there is JA3. Stealth is broken and you need to watch youtube videos to figure out how it works, and why it doesn't. The game is ok for 1-2 hours until it throws a mission into your face you have to reload like 20 times to figure out that one exact way how to solve it. Usually you'll only find out you're fucked 15 min in, so have fun replaying the same crap over and over again, including forced cutscenes. If you're that kind of special person who like to solve the same puzzle over and over again that might be your thing, everyone else get something like BG3.

it's not jagged alliance. it's not a tactical battle simulation, it's a turn-based RPG game. with magic stats magic mana magic resources turning lead into gold. it's more fallout than fallout 3, it even has magazines and end-game slides also 23* .50 BMG desert eagle, ak is called ak-47, ak-74 and svd use 7.62x39 svd is also full auto, and they call magazines "clips", ahahhahahahhahahah

not sure whats wrong with this game but i bought it on steam and it didnt work because it couldnt find the save data files and wouldnt start. It looks like a great game but like many games the past years it released BROKEN.