Jagged Alliance: Rage!

Jagged Alliance: Rage! delivers a fairly middling strategy experience where many of its better ideas and gameplay mechanics are hampered by poor AI and numerous design decisions that bring the game’s pace to a crawl.

This isn’t the first time we’ve seen a developer try to recapture the magic of Jagged Alliance and I hope it’s not the last, but I found Rage pretty hard work to enjoy. Much like the mercs themselves, for every positive trait it may offer, there tends to be some frustrating problem to deal with too. The combat is rarely all that enjoyable and a game that requires so much inventory management should do so much more to make that process appeal to the player. It’s hard to recommend Rage over something like Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden this month, even if you’re desperate to see this series make...

You can have fun with Jagged Alliance: Rage!, but just don’t expect it to last that long unless the experience really clicks with you. It almost feels as though it was made for the mobile market in a way, with its small but plentiful maps and cut down features. Perhaps enjoyed like a mobile game – played little but often – you’ll get more out of it. If you’re looking for your next meaty turn-based strategy to sink your teeth into, though, this isn’t it.

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Remember back in my Travis Strikes Again review, when I said that I really dislike when developers come up with smaller-scale spin offs in order to simultaneously calculate fan interest and raise funds for a proper sequel to a long-forgotten franchise? Well, here we are again with yet another example, this time around with Jagged Alliance: Rage!; a low-effort spin off to the classic turn-based strategy series Jagged Alliance, once known as the Rolling Stones to XCOM‘s Beatles back in the ...