Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zackney. Tonight, we welcome back, game designer Darius Kazami, of the Tiny Subversions blog. Darius, thanks for coming back one week later. Good to be back. We also welcome back to the show, our friend and GameSpy editor-in-chief, Dan Stapleton. Dan, welcome back. Thank you. Sorry, I almost called you Troy. Wow, that was not good. on, man. How long is it going to take?

I think I've... Dan, welcome back. Thank you, sorry, I almost called you Troy. Wow, that was not good.

Come on, man.

How long was it going to take?

I think I've only been on the show once when Troy was hosting, so you think I would get the hang of it.

Okay.

Thank you, Rob.

Last week, you heard us sing the praises of Jagged Alliance 2, and this week we're going to discuss its modern pseudo-remake,

Jagged Alliance Back in Action.

So, Dan, we'll start with you because you've just machined through this game,

and you recently posted your review to GameSpy.

Would it be fair to characterize your feelings as mixed?

Yeah, I mean, it's a game that I really wanted to like.

It is along the lines of games that I really enjoy.

I actually do have to confess that I haven't spent a whole lot of time with Jagged

Alliance 2, but I did listen to your show last week, so I feel like I know it.

I'm such a hardcore X-com guy like when Jagged Alliance 2 came out or like when I was told I should play it, I kind of missed it when I came out. But I was told I should play it. So I went back to try and play it and I kind of bounced off of it. It's like, oh, this is an excom. Why do I need this? I've got Xcom. It's better than Xcom.

Anyway.

So, and, you know, a lot of the stuff you guys were talking about last week sounded really great, and I wish they were in this game in Jagged Alliance back in action.

Because it's, you know, so it has the pause and go combat, which, you know, I have no problem

with in concept. I really like a lot of pause and go games. I like, like Freedom Force is

one of my, one of my all-time favorites. I love that. But I just don't think it works here at

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