Jagged Alliance 2 Wildfire

by Strategy First

Product Features

• Strategy game involving a ruthless drug cartel
• Stop the drug cartel and mafia from bringing drugs into North America
• Improved maps and military facilities
• More weapons
• For 1 player

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0000ZUGYA
• Item Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: March 8, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #33,359 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Don't expect to be greeted as a liberator...Product InformationJagged Alliance 2: Wildfire brings you back to Arulco.  Although what you find there is no way pleasing!  The population is being terrorized by a reckless army; in the meantime the main export goods are drugs.  Subversion and fraudulence have infiltrated all levels of the local government and the ever-present Mafia has its fingers in many pies.  You are working undercover on behalf of the U.S. government and your goal is to destroy the mighty drug cartel.You will need a skilled hand to put together the right team of mercenaries and the negotiating power of a diplomat to get the skeptical population on your side.  Move importantly you must have the strategic genius of a general and the fighting tactics of a guerrilla.Product FeaturesReal WorldBetter overview and more details through 1024 resolution.230 new and revised sectors with realistic sector design.Interaction with more than 170 charactersReal WeaponsMore than 20 new weaponsAuthentic characteristics and realistic sound effectsReal EnemiesThere are more opponents that behave more intelligently.Different enemy behavior in different situations requires varied tactics and non-linear thinking.Real Trouble!12 new mercenaries with individual personal recordsUp to 10 mercenaries on a teamCreate your own custom mercenaryThree degrees of difficulty Windows RequirementsWindows 2000 XPPentium II 233 MHz or faster processor64 MB of RAM900 MB free Hard Disk spaceDirectX 9.0c compatible 8 MB Video CardDirectX 9.0c compatible Sound Card4X CD-ROM driveWindows compatible mouseWindows compatible keyboard

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars That Other Guy Was Nuts, April 25, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Jagged Alliance 2 Wildfire (CD-ROM)

The reviewer of this game who suggested that Jagged Alliance 2 is a "poor man's Fallout" is completely and utterly wrong. Jagged Alliance 2 is a strategy game with some roleplaying elements, not a roleplaying game with guns. While I'm a big fan of Fallout, this comparison is so ludicrous I have to laugh - buying any Jagged Alliance game with the expectation of getting an experience like Fallout is as silly as buying a ticket to Boise and expecting to visit the beach.

I can't speak as to the quality of the Wildfire expansion, but the original game (which you get in the box anyway) is one of the all-time great strategy games. It's not a poor man's Fallout - if anything, it's a worthy competitor to X-COM and Civilization.

Let's put it this way - of all the games released before the turn of the century, how many are still on sale in their original form? I can think of two - Half-Life, and Jagged Alliance 2. That should say something.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Can't top the original JA2, but certainly gives a try, January 13, 2005

By 

James Kunz (Ann Arbor, MI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jagged Alliance 2 Wildfire (CD-ROM)

In the land of strategy games in 1998, overpopulated with the same tired retreads of aliens fighting humans, came Jagged Alliance 2. Although not equipped with skirmish options or multiplayer play, the game was brilliant for its real-world locale, wonderful characters, vastly original gameplay and great story. Today we are inunduated with yet more cliched strategy games, and it is certainly good to see a newer form of Jagged Alliance 2.

All the weapons from the original have been revamped with more accurate statistics and sounds (which are wonderful to hear), as well as a great number of new guns to replace some of the unentertaining old ones. Every sector has been redesigned, and the level of difficulty is significantly amped up from the original JA2 (which was quite difficult in and of itself). During one successful battle I took my soldiers and swam over half the map just to avoid being pinned down by snipers.

On the other hand, the storyline from the original has been downplayed, and although there is supposed to be a new angle to the story in which drug cartels play a large role, this is poorly (if at all) developed. Moreover, there are no new mercenaries, NPC's or enemies. The plot which was so integral to the original JA2's beauty has been stripped.

Nonetheless, this game is unbeleivably fun, and one of the best playing time/dollar ratios of any game out there; due to its huge size and non-linear gameplay, this game can entertain for weeks and weeks.

Fun: 8/10 Overall: 7/10

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars JA2 again, but a little bit different, January 18, 2005

By 

Mibes (Boulder, CO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jagged Alliance 2 Wildfire (CD-ROM)

Well well well... It's been coming up to six years since the original Jagged Alliance 2 was released. In 2004 Strategy First (now a dead company from what I've heard), got a fan of the game to produce a modified version of the original.

Unfortunately in pretty much every way it's identical, same map, same characters, same quests. To be fair, the latest version of the code has been used which had improvements to the AI (as seen in the last UB mod from Sirtech). Plus, the author has made a few modifcations to the graphic elements used in the Island world of JA2. Probably the most sought after aspect of this modded version is the updated weapon/ballistic stats, to hopefully reproduce the real-world weapons more accurately. The guy has done a good job in this respect, and also managed to maintain a good gameplay curve.