Jagged Alliance is back - With a new take on turn-based tactics, adventure elements and the well-known quirky mercenaries!
Use tactical brilliance and guerilla tactics to destroy their structures and strengthen the island's population to take back what is rightfully theirs.
Jagged Alliance: Rage! is a small-budget project, which clearly lacks unique features, polishing, depth and good plot. The gameplay is too monotonous and needs elements from the first games of the series. Hopefully, THQ Nordic will allocate more funds and find professional developers for a full-fledged Jagged Alliance continuation in the future.
I'm really struggling to find anything good to say about Jagged Alliance: Rage, other than that its name is appropriate. I suppose the stealth mechanic sort of works, although even there occasionally your sneaky work can be ruined by a patrolling soldier somehow glitching and eternally clambering on and off a rock instead of completing his route. Each...
Everything went wrong with Jagged Alliance: Rage!
The developers of Jagged Alliance: Rage! likely hoped it would rejuvenate the franchise and it might. It's a competent turn-based tactical shooter but suffers from repetitive missions and sluggish controls. Unless you're a huge fan of the genre you're unlikely to find the gameplay rewarding.
There are few positive aspects one can take from Jagged Alliance: Rage and the few that the game offers are obliterated by its critical performance issues, making it a game most players should avoid.
