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- Platform: Windows Vista / XP
- PEGI Rating: Ages 16 and Over
- Media: DVD-ROM
- Item Quantity: 1
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- Real time and round-based strategy (round-based in fight applications)
- More than 30 striking mercenaries with specific strengths and individual characters
- Complex role play system
- 23 different scenes in front of detailed formed background
- High level-interactivity by destroyable buildings and objects
- 5 main parties: UN troops, rebels, soldiers loyal to government, the Butsi tribe and the mysterious client
- More than 150 weapons and other equipment objects
- Rousing campaigns with the most different mission sighting
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Welcome to Africa – the continent of fear and power
You are at the diamond coast, a region, submerged in chaos and wars, governed by an unprincipled dictator and it is your task to stop him. In order to achieve this goal, you command an elite unit of 30 well-trained mercenaries and have access to over 150 different weapons. To dispossess the dictator is a tactical challenge: Five hostile fractions are raging in the African country, so you have to interact carefully between the warring parties.
Product Description
You are at the diamond coast, a region, submerged in chaos and wars, governed by an unprincipled dictator and it is your task to stop him. In order to achieve this goal, you command an elite unit of 30 well-trained mercenaries and have access to over 150 different weapons. To dispossess the dictator is a tactical challenge: Five hostile fractions are raging in the African country, so you have to interact carefully between the warring parties.
- Real time and round-based strategy (round-based in fight applications)
- More than 30 striking mercenaries with specific strengths and individual characters
- Complex role play system
- 23 different scenes in front of detailed formed background
- High level-interactivity by destroyable buildings and objects
- 5 main parties: UN troops, rebels, soldiers loyal to government, the Butsi tribe and the mysterious client
- More than 150 weapons and other equipment objects
- Rousing campaigns with the most different mission sighting
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Fun:
Well yes and no.
Silent Storm was supposed to be the spiritual successor to Jagged Alliance and Hired Guns was supposed to the the ACTUAL successor to Jagged Alliance. When Strategy First changed direction the game that GFI were working on was no longer an officially licensed Jagged Alliance game.
Whether or not there could be a Jagged Alliance game without the original crew is a question best left to the Internet.
So leaving hereditary aside, is it any good?
Again, yes and no.
Hired Guns was originally released about two years ago but is only just getting a retail release in the UK now. It's not as if great strides have been made in turn based tactical games in that time so that shouldn't really matter from a gameplay point of view.
In most respect this game stands up as a modern Jagged Alliance clone, but doesn't really shine while doing it. If you're a hardened JA player you will SNEER at some of the interface and gameplay options. If you've never heard of JA but enjoyed yourself with Silent Storm and the various UFO:A games then you're going to feel a lot more comfortable.
A bit like the first UFO:A game you'll be frustrated by a lack of feedback and meatiness to targeting and firing. Enemies have apparently been beefed up to make up for their fairly poor AI. That feels like cheating to me.
Buy it, install it, get some mods that fix up the gameplay. There's still an active community fixing the mistakes that were made at release. Once you've fixed it it's a good game and there just aren't too many decent games like this being released.
It's just a little sad that this isn't getting a proper budget release to reflect what is a relatively old game.
Silent Storm was supposed to be the spiritual successor to Jagged Alliance and Hired Guns was supposed to the the ACTUAL successor to Jagged Alliance. When Strategy First changed direction the game that GFI were working on was no longer an officially licensed Jagged Alliance game.
Whether or not there could be a Jagged Alliance game without the original crew is a question best left to the Internet.
So leaving hereditary aside, is it any good?
Again, yes and no.
Hired Guns was originally released about two years ago but is only just getting a retail release in the UK now. It's not as if great strides have been made in turn based tactical games in that time so that shouldn't really matter from a gameplay point of view.
In most respect this game stands up as a modern Jagged Alliance clone, but doesn't really shine while doing it. If you're a hardened JA player you will SNEER at some of the interface and gameplay options. If you've never heard of JA but enjoyed yourself with Silent Storm and the various UFO:A games then you're going to feel a lot more comfortable.
A bit like the first UFO:A game you'll be frustrated by a lack of feedback and meatiness to targeting and firing. Enemies have apparently been beefed up to make up for their fairly poor AI. That feels like cheating to me.
Buy it, install it, get some mods that fix up the gameplay. There's still an active community fixing the mistakes that were made at release. Once you've fixed it it's a good game and there just aren't too many decent games like this being released.
It's just a little sad that this isn't getting a proper budget release to reflect what is a relatively old game.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
I've given up in frustration on this one.
I love these type of games, where you can really get involved in it, and was/am a big fan of Jagged Alliance. This offering has, as you'd expect, better graphics and, to my mind, a better interface. The pidgin English used for the in-game help and the character dialogue, comical at times, can be a little off-putting, but this can be ignored or put up with.
However, all your plans and preparations will eventually come to nought. All due to a glaring howler, which is impossible to ignore and which will likely have you heading for the uninstall button, as I have. For the simple fact is that even on the easiest setting, your enemies, however unskilled and untrained they may be, only very, very rarely miss their targets. Your team will simply be butchered within a short space of time. First aid kits are not available for purchase when you first start a new game as the store won't supply them, and any merc who has any as a part of their inventory won't be interested in working for you.
Therefore, in combat, upon meeting an enemy, who can always move much, much futher than your men will ever do, you will be shot to a point where your men cannot fire or even move to defend themselves. The possibility of medical attention being nil, they will simply lie prone while the enemy surround and kill your team one at a time.
You have absolutely no chance. Consequently, sadly, this game is a waste of your time and money. One star for the presentation and concept, another for graphics and what might have been. Otherwise, avoid.
I love these type of games, where you can really get involved in it, and was/am a big fan of Jagged Alliance. This offering has, as you'd expect, better graphics and, to my mind, a better interface. The pidgin English used for the in-game help and the character dialogue, comical at times, can be a little off-putting, but this can be ignored or put up with.
However, all your plans and preparations will eventually come to nought. All due to a glaring howler, which is impossible to ignore and which will likely have you heading for the uninstall button, as I have. For the simple fact is that even on the easiest setting, your enemies, however unskilled and untrained they may be, only very, very rarely miss their targets. Your team will simply be butchered within a short space of time. First aid kits are not available for purchase when you first start a new game as the store won't supply them, and any merc who has any as a part of their inventory won't be interested in working for you.
Therefore, in combat, upon meeting an enemy, who can always move much, much futher than your men will ever do, you will be shot to a point where your men cannot fire or even move to defend themselves. The possibility of medical attention being nil, they will simply lie prone while the enemy surround and kill your team one at a time.
You have absolutely no chance. Consequently, sadly, this game is a waste of your time and money. One star for the presentation and concept, another for graphics and what might have been. Otherwise, avoid.
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