Jagged Alliance 3
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This is crazy. I've been reminiscing quite a bit lately about some of the old games I really enjoyed playing back in the day. There was one turn-based game I liked but couldn't remember the title of it.
As soon as I saw the title of your post, it hit me - Jagged Alliance.
As soon as I saw the title of your post, it hit me - Jagged Alliance.
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Burns
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True. Never played either of those due to the reviews being poor, then promptly forgot about them. Maybe they learned from past mistakes...eventually, someone will have to...right?!?
The developer has a decent track record for games, but none of them are squad based tactics. They have made good games like Tropico 3/4/5, Surviving Mars, and Victor Vran. They also made Omerta: City of Gangsters, which got bad reviews.
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The new X-coms were pretty decent modern versions of the old X-coms (though I find Open X-com+mods to be better), so I'm hoping they go in a similar direction with this. JA1+2 were right up there in terms of great turn based tactical strategy games, and would be nice if they don't fuck this up.
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Some preview copies were sent out, so here are a couple gameplay videos. Still cautiously optimistic (the other JA games, that came after JA2 looked good before release too):
Short overview of mercs and world map, then into a combat mission:
From starting a new game to hiring mercenaries and then into a mission (much longer video):
Short overview of mercs and world map, then into a combat mission:
From starting a new game to hiring mercenaries and then into a mission (much longer video):
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Burns
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Humn, didn't know you can't edit posts after a certain amount of time; was going to update the fist post, but it's not that important.
Release Window is now Summer 2023. I don't give a fuck about collector edition bullshit but they did confirm that they will be trying to get it out the door by at least August or September (felt silly just posting the last line of the the release, so here is most of it):
Release Window is now Summer 2023. I don't give a fuck about collector edition bullshit but they did confirm that they will be trying to get it out the door by at least August or September (felt silly just posting the last line of the the release, so here is most of it):
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Burns
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The original Xcom (1994) and Jagged Alliance 1 (1995) certainly look like they knew what each other was doing and borrowed some ideas, but there was probably some precursor games that they were both inspired by. JA2 built on both the Xcom and JA1 formula, making it one of the best in the genre.Never played any Jagged Alliance but damn this looks good.
Alternately game looks like Fallout Tactics, Xcom, and Wasteland 3.
Fallout Tactics (from what I remember of it) was Jagged Alliance 2 with a Fallout skin and not as much personality.
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Shmoopy
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I really enjoyed Fallout Tactics. Was one of the earliest games where you could toggle between real-time and turn-based combat. It was less open ended but the combat was solid.
You could also drive an APC and shoot out the windows. Running over rats and rad scorpions with the APC was hilarious. It wasn't OP either because one mutant with an RPG could blow up your whole squad.
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Evernothing
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Looking forward to this. Looks to be cheapest here at the moment.
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Jagged Alliance 3
Grand Chien, a nation of rich natural resources and deep political divides, is thrown into chaos when the elected president goes missing and a para...
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Gavinmad
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crawling around one centimeter at a time during night exploiting the fact that the AI can't really cope with night fighting?
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