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[TheChosen]

This is a nice game, but its really sloooooow. I only got to day 2 until i got mad.

[jareth_chong]

I have just started playing Jagged Alliance. I had missed out the Jagged Alliance series because of X-COM, a game I truly despise. Some ten years ago, when people and reviews described Jagged Alliance as a "game that is like X-COM", I immediately decided that I was not going to try Jagged Alliance.

I bought X-COM when it first came to the US because of all the rave reviews and praises. I played it, and I really really hated it. Its gameplay involved too much number crunching, and its unintuitive interface was overcrowded with too many buttons. I played it for a couple days and gave up on it.

A few years later, after I had upgraded my computer, I tried playing X-COM again. There was still too much micromanagement of statistics and numbers. The X-COM soldiers lacked any sort of personality or individuality--they are just vanilla plain. In fact, the whole game just does not have any unique "personality" or "flavor". X-COM was really just a "spreadsheet" gameplay. I still did not like the game at all.

Then, a few more years later again, at the turn of the millenium, I bought another new computer and gave X-COM the third and one last chance. I ended up hating it even more because its graphics and sound was already badly outdated by then, plus I had never liked its gameplay in the first place.

I had known Jagged Alliance, like X-COM, also had fund management, map overviews, personnel management, and many seemingly similar elements. I had always imagined the two games offered very much the same sort of gameplay. So I had never bothered giving Jagged Alliance a try.

A couple weeks ago, I was looking online for the old classic Ultima (VI-VII) and Quest for Glory series to download when I came across Jagged Alliance and Deadly Games. The games were free, so I decided to give them a try. Wow! Jagged Alliance is so not like X-COM at all. I really enjoy Jagged Alliance although it is over ten years old.

Unfortunately, the free "abandonware" versions of Jagged Alliance and Deadly Games do not have speech. So I ended up buying used copies of Jagged Alliance and Deadly Games because I wanted to play the games with full sound and voiceovers. I am going to start playing Jagged Alliance 2 after I am done with the first two games.

Now that I know X-COM had made me missed out Jagged Alliance for ten years, I hated X-COM even more. X-COM was truly a burden for Jagged Alliance. I have read that many X-COM fans have never tried Jagged Alliance because the two games came out at around the same time, and Jagged Alliance was generally regarded as a X-COM "clone". X-COM had overshadowed Jagged Alliance. On the other hand, people who hated X-COM (like myself) would have never tried Jagged Alliance because, well, if we already hated X-COM, why would we even bother with some game that was "just like X-COM"?

Anyway, that is just what I have to say on this matter.

If you like this game, please visist my forum so we can form a community for both the first Jagged Alliance and Deadly Games

http://qcumber86.proboards36.com/index.cgi

i bought deadly games off ebay about two years ago, i wasnt so impressed. i threw it away. i feel horribly guilty about htat at least once a month, because i am probably the biggest JA2UB junkie in the world... the urban chaos mod is amazing. (but thats for the original jagged alliance 2) if you guys like this game then i really reccomend jagged alliance 2 and jagged alliance unifinished business. maybe someday, those will even be abandonia games! i dont know if talonsoft is around... but i think sir-tech still is (wizardry). but after reading the user comments regarding this game, i was impressed. it sounds more detailed than those newer games even, with keys being in coat racks and such.... i look forward to playing this classic.

-J

oh and to merge items in UB, its easy. you just put item 1 in hand, grab other item, rightclick on item 1 while having item 2 in hand, and put it in that little box.

i'm sure you googled that by now though.... :eeeeeh:

I've played both the X-COM series and the Jagged Alliance games and I loved each and everyone of them.

No use comparing when they are as different as apples/oranges. LOL Game reviewers in the 90s = low-paid crap journalists.

[Hkizzle]

Just started playing this game a few days ago.

I've captured Brenda's lab, and now the virus has hit. I've got the flower but it asks me to find her diary. But I've search every notch in sector 28, in the building, on the mainland and on the little island and no luck.

I've even searched the trees on the island and used a metal detector!

I assume Brenda's lab is sector 28, and I am meant to find her diary on the island in sector 28.

Someone please help, this is dead frustrating :ranting:

Originally posted by Gork@Feb 12 2005, 02:49 PM
Hello!

I have Problems Merging Items in JA2 Unfinished Business.

I cant merge them, could anyone please do a step by step help for me?
(maybe you got a pic?)

Thanks!

I just download JA for a week and now I am really amazed.

One funny thing. At day 3 level EASY I go to sector 39, killed some red shirts, and get cash of $22222!!! Wow! Trusting IVAN, I let him keep it. When I started the new day, the cash just disappear. IVAN is still fight, but he keeps his mouth shut . I personally think he's cheating me and gave all the money for Jack, or worse, Brenda .

By the way, how could I get the next ver of JA, Unfinised Business?

Thank you all,

[Rogue]

Perhaps from the store?

It is newer game, even if abandoned, still probably way to big for this site.

Originally posted by Anubis@Apr 20 2005, 01:42 PM
Perhaps from the store?

It is newer game, even if abandoned, still probably way to big for this site.

Oh, thank you.

I now learned that you could not trust Ivan or Vinny to take the cash. Especially Vinny who will take the cash and fly for a vacation and come back a few days later :angry: . Beware who is also a criminal before joining AIM. $ 22K is really big money

I got hints that if no one you could trust then you could leave it on the field until you hire the trusted one. Wow! So the only one I could trusted is guards ! Very clever game!

Game on,

Originally posted by Qcumberino@Feb 23 2005, 03:22 PM
If you like this game, please visist my forum so we can form a community for both the first Jagged Alliance and Deadly Games

http://qcumber86.proboards36.com/index.cgi

I just visit your forum. It is blank
You may want to copy all review of JA and some faqs to your forum. Then ppl come to read or download it, then they got a chance to debate.

Like this abandonia forum. Great one. k: