Jagged Alliance 2: Unfinished Business

aka: JA2:UB, Jagged Alliance 2.5: Unfinished Business
Moby ID: 3177
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Arulco calls again upon the player's help to rid of a new threat. This time, the threat comes from Arulco's former mining corporation: Ricci Mining and Exploration. After losing control over the mines during the civil war (Jagged Alliance 2), they now want those mines back. Ricci Mining and Exploration have established a missile base in the neighboring country of Tracona and threaten to attack Arulco with missiles unless their demands are met , and hey already blew up the Tixa prison as a warning. At Enrico's request, the player is to travel to the area suspected to contain the missile base, this time near the border of Tracona. The mission: locate the missile base and destroy it.

Jagged Alliance 2: Unfinished Business is the first standalone expansion for Jagged Alliance 2, from which it can import characters. Among the new content are the new storyline, different AI, new character development options, new characters, new weapons and new tactical features like display of sight range and cover opportunities. The game also comes with a campaign editor. The map is much smaller, containing about 20 accessible sectors, considerable part of which are underground.

Appropriate to the mission, the militia training feature does not exist in this game. In this, Unfinished Business is more similar to the original Jagged Alliance than to its sequel.

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  • JA 2.5: Цена свободы - Russian spelling
  • 铁血联盟2:未完的使命 - Simplified Chinese spelling

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Average score: 73% (based on 29 ratings)

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Average score: 3.6 out of 5 (based on 28 ratings with 7 reviews)

The title should be Jagged Alliance 2: Unfinished Period.

The Good
Hey, it's Jagged Alliance. What's there not to like? Most of the great gameplay found in Jagged Alliance 2 is still intact, in addition to more 'easy' or user-friendly character creation for those who did not import their star character from the previous JA 2.

The Bad
This is hardly a game, honestly. Compared to JA2, this is game is only 5 minutes (dramatizing). I mean this is a VERY SHORT GAME if you (somehow) didn't understand my previous sentence. The map is small(er) me thinks compared to JA2, plus the fact that they erased the 'train militia' option, this game became VERY easy to play. Basically, this game became JA 1: Unfinished Business. The one major difference between JA 1 and JA 2 was the militia option, making it more than a micro mercenary war game. The presence of the train militia made it a more macro strategy game.

The Bottom Line
It's playable. Just don't expect too much, in comparison to JA 2. Good thing it's a stand-alone game, Heroes of Might and Magic made better sequals than this. Doh.

Windows · by Indra was here (20756) · 2004

Animations, voice work and gameplay are great!

The Good
This game is more challenging than its' predecessors, and it eliminates the tedium of worrying about income. You just begin getting down to business!

The Bad
Graphics were not quite state of the art when released, but it's not distractingly bad, either.

The Bottom Line
This is not truly a sequel nor an expansion. It is a stand-alone game that engages you in turn-based tactical combat with squads of mercenaries. Included in this game are indicators of your soldiers' line ot sight and weapons range, which allows a little more intelligent planning. You will need it. There are no substantial opportunities to upgrade anything in about the first half of the game, and you will be challenged from start to finish.

Windows · by Dan Spencer (6) · 2003

Short and sweet

The Good
Well, every good thing I said about JA2 goes for this game, plus the fact that it doesn't require the original JA2 to function. The isometric graphics, the digitized sound effects and silly voice acting, and the variety of available equipment and tactics all put together make this one of the best squad-level combat games available. It's also a whole lot easier to play than JA2 because you tend to have more money and better weapons all through the game, and because you can now easily see where to have your mercs hide in combat.

The Bad
It's short. Damn short.

The Bottom Line
If you can get it for 30 FIM (or whatever) like I did, have a go, especially if you're a Jagged Alliance fan. I wouldn't buy it at full price, however, as it's really just a couple dozen (or less - I didn't count) new sectors with some nice new weapons and very little NPC interaction or plot. It kinda seems Sir-Tech are hoping people will be too excited about the editor to think about how little they're getting for their money.

Windows · by Late (77) · 2001

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Game added by Kasey Chang.

Macintosh added by Cavalary.

Additional contributors: Unicorn Lynx, Indra was here, JRK, Stratege, Plok.

Game added January 31, 2001. Last modified March 19, 2024.