This lends each conflict an immense amount of strategic weight, as players must carefully plan out each attack or risk being forced to watch as his or her team is gunned down under a hail of enemy gunfire.

Action points govern every single act, from movement to shooting to picking up items, and each soldier only has a limited amount of action points each turn. Jagged Alliance crawls out from PC history, but doesn't stand the test of time.Ĭombat in Jagged Alliance is a strictly turn-based affair in which squads plod slowly through a given sector one by one scouting for enemy units.

Ultimately, it's this bond that lends Jagged Alliance its unique flavor and alludes to why the original was so well received. It's extremely overwhelming at first, but after a few missions of relying on Ears' ability to probe buildings for enemy movement or Ivan's crack shooting, you'll begin to form a strange bond with these ugly little army men. The huge roster of characters allows armchair military advisors to construct their ideal squad, each soldier with his or her own personality and areas of expertise. While there's very little here to make you actually care about the game's narrative itself, there are brief moments when the original appeal of Jagged Alliance shines through the years of dust and debris. Jagged Alliance wears its 15-year-old presentation on its sleeve, from overly compressed cutscenes to shudder-inducing facial animations. It's a narrative context many gamers have no-doubt experienced before, and developers Cypron Studios and Strategy First haven't done much to hide this fact. Santino's longtime research partner Jack Richards has hired you to reclaim the island sector by sector, eliminating enemies in each area to give Richard's men access to the miracle sap of the nuclear Fallow trees found only on this particular island. Players take on the roll of an unseen mercenary commander as he works to liberate the tropical island of Metavira from the ruthless clutches of the treacherous and greedy scientist Lucas Santino.

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