Awhile ago I was lamenting what appears to be an attempt to make a quick buck off of the Jagged Alliance franchise. Anyway, what I didn’t realize at the time is that Jagged Alliance 2 is still available courtesy of Good Old Games. For $9.99, you can get a copy of the old school turn-based tactical strategy game completely DRM free.
Additionally, there is a user-created 1.13 patch to Jagged Alliance 2 that makes a number of excellent changes, including increasing the resolution of the game to 1024×768. Make no mistake, JA2’s graphics have 20th century written all over them, but the patch helps.
Finally, it looks like turn-based strategy isn’t quite dead yet. Double Bear Productions is in active development of Dead State — a turn-based strategy/RPG in which you try to keep survivors alive after a zombie apocalypse. This one’s looking good, though obviously these games live and die by gameplay.
