Completed Jagged Alliance Deadly Games.
I shouldn’t have bothered.
After the hell of Mission 22, the next one puts you against… 4 enemies. That’s all, that’s the mission. Most of them are still pretty difficult, and the money is tight. The problem is also you can’t predict which missions allow or don’t allow you to sell stuff to get some more money.
One interesting piece of story is that Gus was working for Santino, the villain of Jagged Alliance, but bailed early, never to encounter the protagonist.
I’m not sure what the developers broke, but the further I progress, the less this game makes sense. Jagged Alliance could be annoying, but mostly fair. Here, you have enemies hitting you with pistols from across the map, your best mercs missing 3 shots in a row from two tiles, and getting hit for 40HP while having 60% armor, which should be technically impossible.
For the last two missions, I stopped saving the grenades, and it was just a grenade-fest. Also, I finally managed to hire Mike by selling all my stuff that I accumulated throughout playthrough. Speaking of which, I never had enough scopes or spectra shields for my team.
Final mission is actually on the easier side, simply because enemies don’t come at you all at once, but instead tend to camp, so you can clean the houses methodically. Also helps that I embraced grenades, no point of saving them, and even managed to use “mortar” (it’s more of a propelled grenades really) once.
There isn’t much of an epilogue, except merc congratulating you. I’m calling low budget cash grab.
