Jagged Alliance Flashback

The game provides less options than the one made in 1990s (JA2) while faithfully keeping a silly bug where a guy with highish accuracy repeatedly missing at point blank range. And adds a new one - where a character doesn't see anything outside a quite narrow frontal arc (and can't turn his/her head!). The authors probably think that their "puns" on weapons' names are hilarious - they aren't. They are just silly bordering on stupid. And while the story is possibly not that much worse than the one in JA2 (Again, the game made 30+ years ago!), it's also clearly not better. Don't know why the heck the authors wanted to make the main character a CIA agent in a game about mercenaries who are mainly in it for money - but not interested in knowing that either. %(

A great follow up to the earlier titles. very recommended

Hardly any redeeming qualities.

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I played JA2 some ages ago and I loved it back then. This one is kinda meh: - Felt a little on the short side when it comes to actual content; artifically made longer by being attacked far too often; I once had to battle 2 armies in the same square coming from the one on the left before I could even move my 2nd team from the below square (same distance, no obstacles); - I didn't have bugs but it didn't feel balanced to me. I think over half of my playtime is reloading, because one of my mercs was getting killed while I was missing shots in a row with >70% chance; made worse because stealth is almost non-existant, you can't really do anything with the environement and positioning is kinda weird; - When setting certain actions on the world map, the time would start running automatically and this cost me many, many reloads as well, to make sure I stopped it fast so I could plan the next action as well; - Sadly, no character banter, which was my bigges expectation coming from JA2; Still, somewhat decent if you want something turn-based. Not sure if I should recommend it for nostalgia or not. It worked for me, but others might be put off having known how much better other titles i…