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The game's deep tactical combat is well-made and fun.

The game has a roster of dozens of pre-made mercenaries to choose from, and players can also generate a custom mercenary based on their answers to a personality quiz.

The game's throwback humor sometimes clashes with its gritty and grounded conflict setting, which creates a tonal whiplash.

The reviewer missed out on the 1999 Jagged Alliance 2 but still found the gameplay of the third installment rewarding and engaging.

Jagged Alliance is a little more suited to customized mercenaries with special abilities and outfits or whatever because it's more personality driven but that sort of gameplay is still a hard pass for me. Enemies sprint past you and shoot you in the back in the span of a turn, characters jump over buildings and back down again with a single move, that kind of thing. I feel like if you could playback the turns in real time you would see what a circus it is. The way they move and position themselves is clumsy that way.

I'm not sure how to explain this exactly but in XCOM its like the units are fighting with extremely long spears instead of shooting at eachother.

The guns don't behave like guns, cover doesn't behave like cover, smoke doesn't behave like smoke it's all just so heavily abstracted and streamlined to the point where it plays more like a minis wargame than a turn-based tactics games. There's really nothing gritty or grounded about it. I don't have a problem with 'skills' per se its more that new XCOM is a bizarre and farcical reskin of Dungeons & Dragons in terms of its gameplay.

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