Jagged Alliance - Back in Action
A contemporary remake of the much-loved series of turn-based mercenary-themed strategy games.
Jagged Alliance - Back in Action is a strategy, rpg and tactical game
developed by Coreplay GmbH and Bigmoon Studios
and published by THQ Nordic.
Released on February 08th 2012 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux
in 8 languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Polish and Czech.
It has received 1,689 reviews of which 1,223 were positive and 466 were negative resulting in a rating of 7 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam and has a 75% discount.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows XP (SP2), Vista or Windows 7
- Processor: Core 2 Duo Processor (1,8 GHz or better) or similar AMD
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Hard Disk Space: 3GB HDD Space
- Video Card: Shader 3.0 compatible graphics card (Ati 2600, Geforce 8800 or similar) with 512 MB RAM
- Sound: DirectX Compatible Sound Card
MacOS
- OS: MAC OSX Lion or above
- Processor: Core 2 Duo Processor (1,8 GHz or better)
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Hard Disk Space: 13 GB HDD Space
- Video Card: Shader 3.0 compatible graphics card (Ati 2600, Geforce 8800 or similar) with 512 MB RAM
- Sound: DirectX Compatible Sound Card
Linux
- OS:
Ubuntu
- Processor: Core 2 Duo Processor (1,8 GHz or better)
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Hard Disk Space: 13 GB HDD Space
- Video Card: Shader 3.0 compatible graphics card with 512 MB RAM (ATI Radeon/NVIDIA GEForce 4)
Known issues: Visual artifacts could be displayed when using the following visual cards: AMD Radeon HD 6000 or GeForce 8800 GT.
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distinctive gameplay, despite some bugs and design problems; enemy balancing & AI is quite a problem, you can't really make any tactics whenever a bunch of armored AI try to push you
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The Jagged Alliance franchise is a very satisfying alternative when you've gotten your fill of tactical turn-based combat in games where you have to fight monsters and aliens.
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Have you visited the Bear's Pit? Have you downloaded the mod tools on that site for this game and ripped the in-game files to find the stats for the in-game weapons and ammo? I have. After many, many hours put into this game, I can conclusively say that there is only one way to play this game. Doing anything else is nothing but an exercise in frustration. I exclusively play this game on hard mode with fog of war on and once you realize that this game isn't that hard you will agree with me that this is the only way to play. Mind you in all my hours I have yet to dive into modding so I can't say anything on that front. Day 1 -Get to Cambria, buy the Vintorez for your mercs. It doesn't matter what merc you equip it on, just make sure you buy it from the only vendor on the map. At this point, you should have plenty of money to buy it and you can find the 12x scope north of the jailhouse and on the side closest to the edge of the map near the pile of junk on the other side of the cinderblock wall. This combination of Vintorez + burst fire (two round burst) + 12x scope + keeping your merc in crouch mode will allow you to kill any enemy on the map easily that is LVL 3 and lower, or at least stun lock them to the point where they can't shoot at your mercs. The 9mm sucks for armor penetration though so you'll definitely need an upgrade once you run into tougher enemies. Day 7 -By now you should've already secured the Balime slums as this location on the map contains the only vendor in the game to sell the best weapon in the game, the mighty G11. While in real life this weapon's ammunition is ballistically identical to 5.56 (which the weapon designers at HK intended the caseless ammo to compete with and eventually replace in service with), the 4.7 ammo this gun fires in-game is devastating to armor (has almost as much armor penetration as .50 BMG) and its extremely fast fire rate and extremely good accuracy makes it the best weapon in-game by FAR and nothing ever comes close. It does not matter what merc you give this gun too, as long as they have ammo for it they WILL DEMOLISH EVERYTHING THEY COME ACROSS. Make sure you have you merc crouched as that is the most accurate way to fire this gun although it does do pretty well at close range in hip fire mode as long as your merc has at least somewhat decent accuracy and dexterity and has the 12x scope on the gun. A full squad of (6) mercs with the G11 + 12x scope + crouched is a sight to behold. And couple that with burst fire in CQC combat this thing is ridiculous. There is no point using any other gun in game and you might as well just sell whatever trash you picked up along the way. The vendor at Balime Slums has his inventory refresh everyday (although only one G11 is offered everyday, up to a maximum of two) and as long as visit him every two days you will pick up the maximum number of G11s you can buy. Seriously, you know a weapon is good when you give it to a militia (whom are ordinarily useless) and they end up shredding everything coming their way in burst fire mode. They do tend to get overwhelmed once you start seeing LVL 4/5 attack squads, but I've set up many a scenario inside Cambria where I give one of the prisoner militia (whom, fun fact, start out as LVL 2 militia making him way better than the generic 4 militia [3 men, one 1 woman] you get everywhere else) a G11, have them crouched behind the dumpsters outside the bar in Cambria (the location where all the enemy attack squads are scripted to attack first) and the guy with the G11 alone shreds everything that turns that corner and heads up the road to the bar. As long as give that militia member a helmet and medical attention after getting shot, he's basically invincible. This is until you start seeing the LVL 4/5 attack squads that show up later in the game. Regardless, what I'm trying to say is, the only way to play this game is to go after the G11 as quickly as possible and give all your mercs that gun + the 12x scope and the rest of the game becomes a total snooze fest as your mercs (regardless of stats) just destroy everything on the map. I don't know why the devs made the G11 a godly weapon, but you might as well exploit that fact. Until then the best two weapons in the game are the Vintorez + crouched merc OR M14 EBR + proned merc. Both ought to be used in (two round only) burst mode and have the 12x scope on the gun. Not a big fan of the M14 since there's only one location you can get it on the map, and only a few vendors sell it, but it still does pretty well against both armored and unarmored enemies. In Jagged Alliance: Crossfire, the M14 EBR is the best weapon in the game, but that's only because there's no G11 in that game. Anyway, the rest of the guns in the game are piss poor and not worth using unless you haven't secured Cambria yet or have a lot of mercs and you're desperate to give them at least a have decent weapon. Outside of those three (I like to call them Tier 1 guns), the only other weapons that are somewhat half decent is the FN FAL, TAR-21, and PSG-1 (weapons that I like to call Tier 2 guns). The PSG-1, surprisingly, is most accurate while aiming standing and the FAL and TAR-21 prone. All three should be equipped with the 12x scope. These three I do like to keep around for militia as sometimes militia in numbers can be pretty good, but usually I just end up giving militia the Vintorez or M14 since I no longer have any use for them after I give all my mercs the G11. All the machineguns in the game are garbage and the handguns too. The .357 magnum handguns have surprisingly very good penetration (way more than their real life counterparts which compare similarly to 9mm in terms of ballistics) and giving the Desert Eagle to a grenadier merc with high accuracy + high dexterity + hip fire can work, but I'd much rather still give him the G11. Grenadier mercs (any merc with high explosive stats, explosive skill above 90) should really just be tossing nades (as when they have high stats their grenades explode the moment they land, plus their nades just do more raw damage) or lobbing them with the M79 so whatever gun you give them is often of secondary importance, but why not just give them the best weapon in the game? There is no reason to use trash, even if it does end up being more economical, this game's RNG mechanics can be brutally unfair if you aren't using a decent tier 1 or 2 weapon. Anyway, in short, your first objective in game is to get to Cambria and secure it by day 1 and get the Vintorez, and then from their work your way down to the Balime Slums and equip all your mercs with the G11. Doing anything else is a waste of time, money, resources, and creates more heartache than it should.
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This game is really good, I prefer it to Jagged Alliance 3 mainly because of how much you micromanage each mercenary's kit and skills but also how the scope of the entire campaign feels like an actual military challenge. All this game would need to be perfect would be an option to have turned based combat but the pausable RTS mechanics are somewhat similar to Fallout Tactics and not without benefits. You can still micromanage the actions of each mercenary like a turned based tactical game and you can have a lot of mercenaries on the field... I had 4 squads at once in some operations it was awesome. There are many parts of the game that feel incomplete however and modding support would have been great.
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I love this game even if it's not perfect. The combat system is great, even if it could have been improved. The JA universe is well respected, and the game has tons of assets.
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37
Developer
Coreplay GmbH,
Bigmoon Studios
Publisher
THQ Nordic
Release
08 Feb 2012
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