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German publisher bitComposer games has acquired the license from Strategy First, and hopes to release a new game sometime next year.

"Although Jagged Alliance 2 was published over ten years ago now, the game still represents a milestone in the genre and boasts a huge following of loyal fans," said bitComposer Games CEO Wolfgang Duhr.

"We are delighted to acquire this classic game for bitComposer, and want to continue the success of the previous titles in the series, while giving the new version a contemporary look, bearing in mind the strong features of its predecessors."

This is actually the third time that Jagged Alliance 3 has been announced. After picking up the license from original developer Sir-Tech Software, Strategy First announced Jagged Alliance 3D and Jagged Alliance in 2004. After development conflicts resulted in their cancellation, Strategy First partnered with Russian Studios Akella and F3games, which likewise didn’t work out.

Nevertheless, the series continues to a devoted fanbase. We’ll see whether bitComposer succeeds where Strategy First failed when it launches next year.

Hope the sequel lives up to its expectations.

I took my time to make a mini review of this wonderful Indie game, made by TaleWorlds. This “team” is composed of just 2 developers (!). And they managed to make one of the most addicting game that I’ve played in a long time, which is an enormous feat.

So let’s go straight to the good points.

The Good

I think that, without a doubt, the best part of the game are the battles. You manage a mounted commander that can shout orders to his soldiers, and fight in the battle yourself. The combat system is excellent. I’m an archer with some ability in polearms, but my strong point, is, as said, shooting enemies from distance. You have to be extremely precise to shoot an arrow and hit it, that’s an amazing feature. And when there are 20 vikings coming at you with swords and shields, can be quite a feat to score a headshot in that situation.

What’s more, your character levels up, can buy new weapons and armor, horses, more soldiers (that also level up with you!) and lots of more stuff.

The Bad

Well, the game is really fun, but there are some drawbacks. Some of the quests that you have to do to gain XP points and reputation, are really boring or worthless.

The graphics could also be a lot better (this can be changed with mods).

Overall

Regardless of its (few) drawbacks, it’s an amazing game, that will keep you hooked for hours. Its modding community is surprising, too. And expect some multiplayer skirmishes soon (Warband expansion).

So go play it now!

Yes, in a move to promote the upcoming Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight that it’s due next month, EA released both of these games as freeware!

So as I did before, here are the links of the games:

Command & Conquer: Red Alert

• Download (Allied Disc)
• Download (Soviet Disc)

Command & Conquer 2: Tiberian Sun

• Download

In my opinion, both sagas died with the 3D format, but Red Alert is still a personal favorite. EA killed them…

So, I’ve moved hosts. Now I’m on a paid shared server, so things will be better for you (better uptime) and me (I pay and I’m not troubled by the fact that the host will die any minute). So… That’s it. Sorry for the lack of news, too much life issues right now. But also, too much gaming :)

Any comments? Anything you want reviewed? Any content that you’d like to see on the site? Suggestions are welcome, now… First time in the history of the site. No, I won’t change the design. I love this theme.

Just some small comments about this game. It’s another Diablo clone, but with a twist. Has a futuristic setting, and some non-typical classes. The graphics are very nice, so as the interface of the game. Props to ClockStone Software for this game.

Here’s a link to Worthplaying that features a small review and the link for downloading the demo. Go play this game!

PD: It has zombies too!

As bizarre as this fix is (and let’s not talk about why is this game in my blog)…

Preconditions

• Use Windows 7.
• Use a custom patch like Lumbe’s.
• Start a Master League, and play a match – the game will CTD when loading the players/formation

Fix

As simple as enabling Compatibility Mode for Windows XP SP3.

It seems that there is some really strange quirks with the unnamed_11.bin file in the dt04.img folder. Why? I don’t know. But enabling CM seems to do the job. I also did read that this fix does not work in Windows Vista. But who the hell uses Windows Vista, anyways.

Enjoy this great game and awesome patch!

You know, I spent hours playing Diablo II in my “childhood”. Finding those rare items, going through the tombs, killing Diablo, and such. I finished it, with the Lord of Destruction expansion, a couple years ago. And from time to time, it’s always fun to play with friends for a while

So now we’re up with Torchlight, a very nice Diablo-like game from Runic Games, that takes all that Diablo II was, and adds some little twists here and there. And a pet, that will make your life very simple.

The Good

For the good, we have the aesthetics, the pet, and the gameplay itself. I found myself playing in the 3rd level of a dungeon in half an hour, and that was very cool. That means that the game is extremely easy play, and get used to.

The game feature three base characters (Destroyer, Alchemist and Vanquisher) which can be heavily altered with Skills. For example, I played as an Vanquisher (it’s Amazon+Assassin), and I wanted her speciality to be ranged weapons, so I increased her skill with that, and didn’t touched the close combat ones.

The Bad

Well, it’s a Diablo clone. You can tweak it as hard as you can, but there will only be Diablo and Diablo at the end. Did I say Diablo enough times?

Overall

Play it. You will like it, it would have been very nice if the Runic Games team could have added a Multiplayer feature (Co-op or something like that), but the game is still pretty good to play, will keep you hooked for quite a while.