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Jagged Alliance 2 is a role-playing and strategic computer game developed by Sirtech Canada and published by Titan Computer, released in 2000 for Windows and Linux. It is a single-player game.

It is a complex turn-based strategy game based on the original Jagged Alliance game. It also had three expansion packs.

It was praised by critics and considered as an excellent game for its pretty and well-detailed graphics and environments, but it also offers some new interesting elements concerning the battle mode for example.

The principle of Jagged Alliance 2 is the same than in the first game but with a different plot and storyline.

You have to start the game with a little of money to build your team of mercenaries. You have to achieve an important mission as well as several minor ones.
For people who already play to Jagged Alliance you will be pleased to notice that most of the original mercenaries are back in this sequel.

Each mercenary has his own and significant strengths and weaknesses. When they are particularly strong and when they have numerous abilities they cost a lot money so be careful and keep an eye on your funds.

You will also enjoy the dialogues and jokes using by the mercenaries within the game if you listen carefully you will hear some very fun and interesting sentences.
But be careful when you are using your team to attack, their morale can go down when the members of team are killed.

Jagged Alliance 2 takes place in the nation of Arulco that was until recently ruled by a unique democratic monarchy, headed by the King Andreas Chivaldori, but every ten years elections are held to assert the king s legitimacy.

The king s son Enrico Chilvadori decides to boos t his popularity by marrying with Deidranna Reitman of Romania and was consequently victorious and becomes king. But his father is assassinated and his wife, craving for power, charges him for the murder.

Enrico is obliged to run away and his wife takes the power and quickly established a totalitarian state.

At the beginning of the game you are hired by Chilvadori to remove Deidranna by whatever means necessary. He helps to take contact with a rebel movement in the northern city of Omerta, led by Miguel Cordona and a handful of his trusted advisors. Miguel will guide you to the city of Drassen.

You will have then to guide your mercenaries to recapture the islands of Arulco through a militia town management.

You will also have to explore hundreds of areas and you will dispose of a wide range of weapons and vehicles (even helicopters and so on).

You will also have to manage your team and provide supplies and equipment to it. This is necessary to achieve your mission.

Jagged Alliance 2 reviews