Throwing gives you a better chance to hit lockpicking is an obvious plus, while electronics improves your chance to disarm electronic traps, remote detonators, and so forth. Skills, on the other hand, can have a huge impact. Personality doesn’t have a huge affect on gameplay – an arrogant personality could have negative effects with interacting with NPCs, but you can negate that by just having a dedicated face for your group of mercenaries. Three of the questions are just for shits and giggles, whereas the rest determine the underlying skills and personality of your character. Instead, you were the faceless connection to the Association of International Mercenaries, Incorporated, otherwise referred to as A.I.M.Īfter using the XEP624 activation code – it never changes – the game gives takes you through a series of 16 questions as part of a faux psych profile. The first Jagged Alliance didn’t give the player an avatar.

Principally, the Jagged Alliance series is a game about two layers: the tactical management of your mercenaries, juggling their strengths, weaknesses, loadouts, positioning and personalities and balancing resources, not only the finances required to hire mercenaries to begin with, but their ongoing upkeep, their strategic deployment between missions, training, and fending off attacks from the AI’s hired guns. Enrico Chivaldori hires the player to save Arulco from her tyranny, and thus the game begins.

In JA2, the fictional country of Arulco has been overthrown by the dictator Deidranna, who framed the previous monarch for the death of her father. The original game was developed by Montreal-based developed MadLab software, with Canadian compatriots Sir-Tech picking up the mantle for the sequel.

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