Jagged Alliance cuts into the DS next year

by Eric Caoili { Aug 26th 2008 at 5:00PM }

Rumored M.I.A. since former publisher Strategy First canceled all of its DS titles, the Jagged Alliance port for the DS has returned with a release scheduled for 2009! Have a look at the game's soldiers of fortune in the gallery below!

Strategy First is still helping Cypron Studios (Command and Destroy) handle development for the project while Empire Interactive, as GameFly predicted, is taking over publishing duties. So long as this eventually ships, that's fine with us!

For those of you who were to busy playing console releases to mess with PC titles in the mid-to-late 90s, the Jagged Alliance series comprises of tactical RPGs featuring player-controlled squads of mercenaries, each unit possessing different skills and personalities. Think of it as X-COM, but with more character and less aliens.

On a negative note, as excited as we are to see this PC classic finally coming to the DS, the port's graphics, though more detailed, somehow manage to look less appealing than the graphics from the original Jagged Alliance for DOS, which was released in 1994!

Gallery: Jagged Alliance

[Via press release]

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Tags: cypron-studios, empire-interactive, jagged-alliance, port, strategy, strategy-first

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Quistnix @ Aug 26th 2008 6:13PM

Oh man, how just one news item can turn my bad day into a happy day..

Nhex @ Aug 26th 2008 6:50PM

I loved Jagged Alliance 2. Even with the technical limitations of the DS, I was hoping the game would be more in that game's style. Still, I'm looking forward to this one.

Andrew D. @ Aug 26th 2008 11:18PM

OhBoyOhBoyOhBoy!!!

I am SOOOO pumped about this I think I may have just soiled my jockeys... yup... still in a good mood though!

Ting Lee @ Aug 26th 2008 11:25PM

I hope they expand on the list of mercenaries. I particularly like the non-english speakers and the fake accents.

aber @ Aug 27th 2008 1:39AM

Wow..Jagged Alliance? brings me back to the days of Civ II, Master of Orion, Master of Magic and X-Com. Jagged Alliance was a sleeper even back then, so to see is ported now, 14 years later is quite a (pleasant) suprise. Seriously good tactical strategy with personality coming our way. gotta love the DS.

debaser @ Aug 27th 2008 12:00AM

Anyone who played the originals back in the day knows this should be THE most hyped game on the DS right now.

Toxic @ Aug 27th 2008 3:55AM

It's a great game!

Ditikos @ Aug 28th 2008 4:52AM

Well why don't they make a cleaner (japanese artsy) version of XCom? I am still playing that game (thank you dos box) and I would really really like to see it on my trustworthy DS. How come they have FFTA2 and not an XCOM game??!!?!? Those alien brains need to get shot before making us all zombies!