![]() ![]() Omerta suffered a massive raid shortly before the events of the game, leaving the town damaged and nearly deserted. He puts the player and his team of mercenaries in contact with a rebel movement in the northern town of Omerta. When the game begins, Chivaldori has hired the player to remove Deidranna by whatever means necessary. Removing all other obstacles from her way, she soon consolidated her power and converted Arulco into an authoritarian state. Enrico managed to escape, faking his own death. However, Deidranna proved to be far more than a simple pawn showing an unquenchable thirst for power, she soon framed Chivaldori for the murder of his father. In 1988, election candidate Enrico Chivaldori took a wife, Deidranna Reitman of Romania, in order to boost his popularity and consequently was victorious. Jagged Alliance 2 takes place in the fictional nation of Arulco, ruled until the late 1980s by a unique democratic monarchy – a monarch led the nation, but elections were held every ten years to assert their legitimacy. In July 2006, the Jagged Alliance 2 Gold Pack was released on Steam. Jagged Alliance 2 and the Unfinished Business expansion were combined in the Jagged Alliance 2 Gold Pack, released on August 6, 2002. It is the third game in the Jagged Alliance series, and was followed by two expansions: Unfinished Business in 2000 and Wildfire in 2004. NOTE: Jagged Alliance 2 is now available via GameTap.Jagged Alliance 2 is a tactical role-playing game for PC, released in 1999 for Windows, and later ported to Linux by Tribsoft. These add life to the game and some extra game time as well. JA2: Gold also includes the expansion campaign (a shorter, more direct, less involved game) and a campaign editor. It's definitely worth a try for any strategy-game fan. This game is great, tactically, and has held up pretty well technically. Sound is decent, with a wide variety of voices for the characters and some all-right background music. The graphics have held up pretty well, and despite some details that are lacking (for one thing, there's only one model for male and female mercenaries, with color being the only difference, and only occasionally at that) they still do the job. There are numerous quips made by each character for a variety of situations, and all the mercenaries are fairly well fleshed-out. Another pair is made up of old friends, and they have complementary skills. For example, two mercenaries were once married and then divorced, and as such they don't work well together. Characters interact with each other depending on who they are with, and may perform better or worse when grouped with certain partners. The mercenaries' personalities is one of the best parts of this game. But once you get going, it's easy to find out what to do. There is a bit of a learning curve as well that may stymie those unfamiliar with the genre. The gameplay is fun once you understand it, and though there is a built-in tutorial some of the commands aren't quite as simple to pull off. Enemies will take advantage of this by taking up proper defensive stances when engaged, though they can be outmaneuvered. Tactical things like range, stance (crouching, standing, or prone), number of bullets, and which way the enemy is facing all come into play, especially on harder difficulties. When combat occurs, the game switches to a turn-based mode, and all actions cost "action points" - everything from moving to shooting to reloading to changing stance or direction. The player can only see what his mercenaries see, essentially making a "fog of war" even though the entire area - save for the insides of buildings - is visible. When not in combat, characters move in real time. This is the battlefield, which is actually the entire island (separated, grid-like, into different zones). Most of the game occurs on the tactical map. You must go to the island and help the local resistance overthrow the queen, a plot with many stages you must build up money to support them by capturing and using the local mines, you must train and equip a militia from the local citizens, and finally you must engage in actual combat with the Queen's soldiers. You, the player, are hired by the former king and husband to the queen, who married him and then executed a coup to get his power. More than just a tactics game, JA2 requires you to be a manager of finances, a leader of soldiers, and a beacon of hope to the downtrodden. A turn-based strategy game similar to X-Com or other games of that sort, "Jagged Alliance 2 Gold" (re-released 2004) puts the player in control of a band of mercenaries to liberate an island nation from its oppressive queen. ![]()
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