Rumored M.I.A. since former publisher Strategy First canceled all of its DS titles, the Jagged Alliance port for the DS has returned with a release scheduled for 2009! Have a look at the game's soldiers of fortune in the gallery below!Strategy First is still helping Cypron Studios (Command and Destroy) handle development for the project while Empire Interactive, as GameFly predicted, is taking over publishing duties. So long as this eventually ships, that's fine with us!
For those of you who were to busy playing console releases to mess with PC titles in the mid-to-late 90s, the Jagged Alliance series comprises of tactical RPGs featuring player-controlled squads of mercenaries, each unit possessing different skills and personalities. Think of it as X-COM, but with more character and less aliens.
On a negative note, as excited as we are to see this PC classic finally coming to the DS, the port's graphics, though more detailed, somehow manage to look less appealing than the graphics from the original Jagged Alliance for DOS, which was released in 1994!
[Via press release]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
8-26-2008 @ 6:13PM
Quistnix said...
Oh man, how just one news item can turn my bad day into a happy day..
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8-26-2008 @ 6:50PM
Nhex said...
I loved Jagged Alliance 2. Even with the technical limitations of the DS, I was hoping the game would be more in that game's style. Still, I'm looking forward to this one.
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8-26-2008 @ 11:18PM
Andrew D. said...
OhBoyOhBoyOhBoy!!!
I am SOOOO pumped about this I think I may have just soiled my jockeys... yup... still in a good mood though!
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8-26-2008 @ 11:25PM
Ting Lee said...
I hope they expand on the list of mercenaries. I particularly like the non-english speakers and the fake accents.
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8-27-2008 @ 12:00AM
debaser said...
Anyone who played the originals back in the day knows this should be THE most hyped game on the DS right now.
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8-27-2008 @ 1:39AM
aber said...
Wow..Jagged Alliance? brings me back to the days of Civ II, Master of Orion, Master of Magic and X-Com. Jagged Alliance was a sleeper even back then, so to see is ported now, 14 years later is quite a (pleasant) suprise. Seriously good tactical strategy with personality coming our way. gotta love the DS.
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8-27-2008 @ 3:55AM
Toxic said...
It's a great game!
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8-28-2008 @ 4:52AM
Ditikos said...
Well why don't they make a cleaner (japanese artsy) version of XCom? I am still playing that game (thank you dos box) and I would really really like to see it on my trustworthy DS. How come they have FFTA2 and not an XCOM game??!!?!? Those alien brains need to get shot before making us all zombies!
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8-28-2008 @ 6:54PM
debaser said...
Eww Japanese artsy version of Xcom? Keep your crappy anime away from my favourite games, thankyou very much.