Hope for long-lost Jagged Alliance DS?

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Hope for long-lost Jagged Alliance DS?

Posted Jul 21st 2008 9:30AM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Rumors

Way back in 2005, Strategy First announced a DS version of Jagged Alliance 2 Gold, which became increasingly vaporous as time passed. Gamefly now lists a Jagged Alliance game coming October 9, from publisher Empire Interactive. It may be a sign of renewed life for the Pocket PC Studios-developed port, or it could be the work of a new development team to whom the rights were granted after prolonged inactivity.

Jagged Alliance is a military strategy game series that originated on PC in 1994, involving player-controlled squads of mercenaries. Not only do the mercs have different skills, they interact differently with one another when teamed up. The player's actions lend a reputation that also affects the mercenaries' willingness to work.

[Update: Eric pointed out that Strategy First officially cancelled all their projects. Either Empire has picked up the pieces or this is an unrelated project.]

Tags: empire-interactive, jagged-alliance, srpg, strategy, strategy-first

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7-21-2008 @ 4:31PM

FV Colin said...

Strategy First and Empire Interactive are both owned by Silverstar Holdings. Same company.

7-24-2008 @ 3:00PM

Andrew D. said...

Oh, PLEASE let it be true!!!

This was one of my favorite games of all time. Such great memories playing this game.

I've had bad luck recently so it probably is a false alarm.

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