Hired Guns: The Jagged Edge - Tactical Strategy Game for PC | Military Simulation & Team Management | Perfect for War Strategy Enthusiasts and Tactical RPG Fans

Well yes and no.Silent Storm was supposed to be the spiritual successor to Jagged Alliance and Hired Guns was supposed to the the ACTUAL successor to Jagged Alliance. When Strategy First changed direction the game that GFI were working on was no longer an officially licensed Jagged Alliance game.Whether or not there could be a Jagged Alliance game without the original crew is a question best left to the Internet.So leaving hereditary aside, is it any good?Again, yes and no.Hired Guns was originally released about two years ago but is only just getting a retail release in the UK now. It's not as if great strides have been made in turn based tactical games in that time so that shouldn't really matter from a gameplay point of view.In most respect this game stands up as a modern Jagged Alliance clone, but doesn't really shine while doing it. If you're a hardened JA player you will SNEER at some of the interface and gameplay options. If you've never heard of JA but enjoyed yourself with Silent Storm and the various UFO:A games then you're going to feel a lot more comfortable.A bit like the first UFO:A game you'll be frustrated by a lack of feedback and meatiness to targeting and firing. Enemies have apparently been beefed up to make up for their fairly poor AI. That feels like cheating to me.Buy it, install it, get some mods that fix up the gameplay. There's still an active community fixing the mistakes that were made at release. Once you've fixed it it's a good game and there just aren't too many decent games like this being released.It's just a little sad that this isn't getting a proper budget release to reflect what is a relatively old game.