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JAGGED ALLIANCE

As a PC gamer, you understand why the question “how many games are in the Jagged Alliance series” doesn’t have a simple answer. IPs flip back and forth between publishers all the time, because PC gaming is an industry that’s 1% megahit, 99% living on the razor’s edge of insolvency. Any franchise that looks like it has even the tiniest bit of legacy with gamers gets bought up and flogged, even if the actual game has nothing to do with the original. See also: Prey.

Jagged Alliance though is something unique. While it wasn’t the only turn-based tactical squad game of the mid-to-late 1990s, it had a free-flowing strategic layer unlike anything else, and incredible depth.

By the time the original developers were ready to let their

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