Jagged Alliance 2

JA2 is in my top 5 computer games of all time. Most games loose their luster as graphics advance and genres refine, but this game is as good today as on the day it was released. JA2 is primarily a turn-based tactical combat game, set in the modern era. The tactical combat engine is wrapped around an extraordinarily open-ended strategy layer. You to recruit mercenaries, fight battles, buy equipment, train militia, and direct your team or teams all over a huge map. Here's an small example of the emergent gameplay in the strategy layer alone: I've just taken the last sector of the town of Drassen with my five mercenary team. I'm low on cash, have three injured mercs, my best gun is low on ammo, and enemy troops will likely attack withinn the next 24-48 hours. My guys probably won't survive in this state. I'll start my doctor healing the wounded.My main repair guy is one of the wounded, so while he's being tended tot, I'll have my uninjured second best repair guy fix that old Thompson SMG and that shotgun I just found. I'll spend some money having another merc train up the local militia. Do I use what's left of my funds to buy new equipment and some SMG ammo, which won't arrive for days? Or do I hire a few throwaway mercs from the company that doesn't require cash up front? Or do I spend it all on the best merc I can afford, maybe even foregoing buying his or her standard equipment, just giving him stuff I've salvaged? But waiting for that new merc to arrive would take time. Instead, I could heal up one or two guys, and come nightfall, use my team to attack the smallest of the enemy patrols outside of town. If I'd win, I'd eliminate a big chunk of the threat, and would likely gain new ammo and equipment that would make a defensive battle easier. But I'm also low on medical kits, so if I take too many hits my team could end up more vulnerable than they are now. And I haven't even touched on the tactical combat engine, which is by far the best I've ever played, or on how fun it is to eqip each merc with just the right gear for their talents, or on the over-the-top personalities of the mercs, or on the 1.13 mod and the HAM mod . . .

У этой игры великолепная официальная русская озвучка. Самой игре - 5, но без той русской озвучки впечатление будет не то.

I played this game nearly twenty years ago on the recommendation of a friend, and I was HOOKED. From the array of guns, the long campaign, the reloading and saving of games to maximize your tactics, the thinking and planning needed to attack certain areas and the absolute masterpiece dialogues with the characters, Jagged Alliance IS THE GOLD STANDARD for turn-based RPGs and has earned its rightful place in the hall of fame. You're tasked with retaking a country that has been taken over by an evil queen. With a one time payment from an exiled leader, you're in charge of hiring mercenaries based on an array of skill sets that you alone need to determine are useful for your mission. Each character has its dialogue choices and the game is even coded to provide different interactions based on mercs. Some mercs will refuse to be hired if you have others already in your retinue. The game has a map with a variety of cities and other locations waiting to be discovered. You're required to take over mines in order to fund your mercenary operations. The game's campaign will have you plan and think your approach to certain cities. Tactics are essential along with the careful placing of mercenaries to be granted that sweet, sweet interrupt. The game can be maddeningly frustrated if you rush head first into battle without taking advantage of the terrain. You can also be rewarded with careful planning with a thoughtful selection of mercs who have a wide range of skills. As well, there are a variety of community created mods that you can install with a Vanilla JA2 copy that bring new weapons, characters and campaigns. The newer JA games unfortunately went in a different direction, being picked up and abandoned by different developers. Irrespective of whatever novelties these games brought, none of them have the JA2 spirit which makes this game just a pleasure to play, even 20 years later. Ian Currie and his team create a timeless, highly playable gem. Love live JA2!

JA2 is definitely one of the best games ever made. Still playable in 2020 with lots of additional mods available (JA 2. 1.13) that make the game even more epic. If you dont know JA2, you should get it and play it, this is an absolute masterpiece that is yet to be replaced by anything that comes close to its detail, love and gameplay. Thanks for making this game and giving me 3000+ hours to sunk into

I'm continually shocked and appalled that nobody has bothered to make a game that plays quite like this one. It's an excellent concept - you need to be a combination of financier, quartermaster and small unit tactician, working as a small, elite group of mercs to clear out numerically superior foes. There really should be more of games that play like this. You could easily make one of these turn based tactical games about a team of green berets in hostile territory (Hey, US Army? I'd PAY you to play that one. I'd enlist to play that one!) And yet it stands alone in it's class. I don't think there IS another TBT game out there that is anything like Jagged Alliance 2. I could go into a long discussion of the game's mechanics, story and gameplay, but really, what's the point? You NEED to play this if you want to consider yourself a tactical gamer. Not only that, but this game has mod potential, and a lot of it. There's one very, very large mod called JA 1.13, which is essentially a final patch to the game that adds a bajillion new weapons and several new features. There must be at least 250 guns in 1.13. (In your face, Combat Arms) It even comes packaged with a mod that fixes bugs in the original game as well as makes tactical maneuvering much more about fire and movement (surpressive fire becomes MUCH more valuable). Why am I still talking about this? GO BUY IT AND PLAY IT. NOW.