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Hint: read reviews and discussions about the game you want to buy before you buy it. It can help to make wright decision.
- Jagged Alliance 2 - Wildfire (is both versions, HD + classic).
- Jagged Alliance 2 Gold: Unfinished Business (is a DLC. not working Steam on w10)
And what is this?
- Jagged Alliance 2: Gold Pack
This game "store page" links to the same page as Unfinished Business: "Jagged Alliance 2 Gold" (which has another different name).
Ok, don't quote me on all the info here, but here is what I think i know (I also have all 3):
- JA2 Gold: I don't know what the Gold does (maybe newer patch/update) but this is basicaly the base JA2 game, it opens in 800/600 resolution on steam, playable but very streched out, it's the base experience. Sometimes tends to softlock when enemy/you interrupts the other side, that's why I never recommend ironman mode.
- JA2 Gold Unfinished business: (Again, no idea about the gold, maybe newer/patched version) That is basically a small independant side story (look at it like a dlc/expansion) that plays after the main story and, it it crashes. No, really, I had unfinished business on CD back in 2006 in Windows XP, you open the in game laptop and game crashes, so I could always only do 1 sector, so just skip it
- JA2 Wildfire: As far as I know, JA2 was very popular and fans made some mods/patches for it, the new devs/publishers really liked them and thus made wildfire, which is basically a slightly re-told story of JA2 with slightly different mechanics/weapons/QoL improveemnts/cities and zones are also a bit changed -> more rooms to climb, enemy also on roofs, bigger squads, more enemies and so on. Also, WAAAAAYYYYYY harder than JA2, you can try to use a high accuracy merk with a sniper and still miss, where the enemy can shoot a regular handgun from 10 miles away and headshot you... Basically the version I LOVE and recommend, the window scale is better (I think 1600x900 or something, so way more playable), most miliary bases have mines, mines everywhere, they go crazy on the mines!!! and many doors are boobietrapped with explosives/electric traps (well, more realistic i guess). Only issue i found with wildfire is entering a new zone, the tactical screen is just black (people also wrote on steam about it) but how you can "fix" it is, just play with manual saves, save before moving, pick a random arrival point since you see nothing, arrive at the new sector and see how the map layout looks, then reload and then plan where you want to arrive.
Thanks!
Yup, pretty much, I would still recommend directly playing Ja2wf (maybe on Novice difficulty, as it will be frustrating on higher, if you never played JA1) for the best experience, since JA2 is just buggy, JA2ub will crash and not work.
P.S. I heared there is the "v1.13" mod for the JA2, which is an engine modification and people concider it the best and definite version, but it is way too complicated for me to understand how to use it, so I never dabbled into it.
Have fun playing!
I also deleted ddraw.dll and RunGame.bat, made a copy of JA2.EXE and renamed it to RunGame.bat. This made the game running perfectly fine for me, otherwise the game could only launch every other time.
I couldn't play Wildfire because the text is very tiny in the game. I guess it's due to the different resolution comparing to the Classic version.
Cannot say anything about Gold version as I don't have it here on Steam. Though I'm sure it is possible to make it work and not crash after some tinkering.