

But since GFI had no rights on the IP anymore, the game was renamed.Īnd how does it play? – The very first impression is “JA2 with a new graphic engine”. This game was originally developed to be Jagged Alliance 3D. What we got in the end was Jazz: Hired Guns, later renamed to Hired Guns: The Jagged Edge. In the end, no official sequel or remake were developed by GFI and Strategy First withdrew the rights on the Jagged Alliance franchise from GFI. To cut a long and strange story short: Things went horribly wrong. These two games were supposed to be Jagged Alliance 3, a sequel to JA2, and Jagged Alliance 3D, a remake of JA2, just with better graphics. In the mid-2000s, Russian developer GFI was commissioned to develop two Jagged Alliance games by the IP holder of the Jagged Alliance franchise, Strategy First. While the engine was modified to support higher resolutions, it was nevertheless absolutely outdated when WF came out. It’s main issues are the somewhat unbalanced gameplay, the rather large number of bugs and the fact that it runs on the JA2 engine.

Let’s find out by taking a look at all the official and unofficial Jagged Alliance games and some of the major mods in chronological order.

Considering that JA2 is now almost 20 years old, makes you wonder… “Why didn’t they make another sequel?” - “What happened to the franchise?” To this day, JA2 is still regarded as the king of turn-based strategy. It got lots of attention and was rewarded with countless “game of the year” awards. Back in 1999, Jagged Alliance 2, the sequel to Jagged Alliance, was released.
