Light levels, range, skill, position, stance, cover, and weapon type and degradation all have an effect on where a bullet will end up, along with a dose of the random number generator, but it all feels natural. There’s number-crunching happening and lots of it, but it’s rarely obvious to the player. None of this happens with a sliding friendship scale and the exchange of gifts, it happens through conversation and voiced complaints. Clashes are frequent and can result in snide dialogue, a refusal to cooperate or, at extremes, abandonment and murder. Teams of mercs don’t just require specialists, who can either be hired or developed RPG-style, they also need to get along with one another. But before we get to all that devilry, a little about why Jagged Alliance 2 is one of the greatest games I’ve ever had the pleasure to play.Ĭomplexity is a big part of it, with an incredibly detailed tactical combat system backed up by an overarching strategic game that covers hiring, training, deployment, purchasing, equipping and managing of personalities. They are often variants and different models of very similar kill-sticks, yes, but the massive variety adds a great deal to the game in terms of detail and it’s those details that I’ve come to adore. What's more, once I’ve spent some time writing about it, it’s inevitable that I’ll spend at least seventeen hours playing it and I still won’t have seen every gun in the game, or beaten it on ‘insane’ difficulty.Īmong the many brilliant things that 1.13 adds to the game, there are hundreds of new weapons. No fear though - even if I had tickets to go and see A Very Enjoyable Thing, I wouldn’t pass up the chance to talk Jagged Alliance instead. Imagine I just said ‘no’, dropped in a purchase link and buggered off for the weekend. But does such a bountiful game require any additions? Can it be made even greater? Jagged Alliance 2 should need no introduction, nor should its most infamous and essential mod, known simply as 1.13, being in the form of a super patch of sorts. It’s self-indulgence time in Modland this week as I use my hastily rigged together platform, which runs on the Soapbox Derby engine, to direct you all to spend your weekends playing one of the greatest games ever made.

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