You see, after the opening of the game, you have to pay your staff, hire additional mercenaries to increase your numbers, and place mail-orders for 7.62mm ammo, kevlar vests, and hand grenades. There are small towns and a couple relatively large cities and, most importantly, there are mines that you can take over to fund your ongoing war effort. Each sector is a specific tactical map where combat can occur. You recruit a band of misfit, amateurish mercenaries, then begin waging a guerilla war across a huge map of the entire country. Jagged Alliance 2 puts you in charge of a mercenary company tasked with overthrowing a violent dictatorship in the fictional country of Arulco.
It’s not a perfect comparison, but it’s a bit like what you might get if XCOM were crossed with a Total War campaign. Rather, Jagged Alliance 2 was a game whose ambition lay in melding tactical combat with an unforgiving strategic layer context. Yet it’d be a mistake to think it was behind the times. It might be from 1999, when 3D graphics were transforming what video games looked like and how many of them felt to play, but JA2’s sprites, forced isometric perspective, and most of all its incredibly fussy and detailed RPG interface mark it as a game of very old-school sensibilities. Jagged Alliance 2 is recognizably a relative and peer of games like Fallout 2.
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