Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, a podcast about strategy games. I am

Len. I am your host for this week. And I am joined by freelance writer and RPS columnist Sin Vega.

Welcome back to the show.

Hi there.

And I believe your first time on this show, we also have a freelance writer, Dominic

Tereson.

Hey, hey, hey.

And we are gathered here to talk about one of the great long-distance sequels, I guess, in the world of tactics games,

Jagged Alliance 3. When did the, when did J.A.2 come out? Was that

1999? 1999, yeah. I cannot remember when the first one came out,

but everyone talks about two anyway, because it's just better in pretty much every way.

Yeah, it looks like, they did some, like, little, like, spin-off stuff in the meantime.

There was, like, a DS game.

Oh, I didn't know about that.

Yeah.

There was some...

I remember with the originals, there was a kind of fallout, fallout tactic situation where they were kind of expansion packed slash spin-off things that weren't very well received because they were like a portion of the game rather than the whole thing again.

But, you know, I wasn't really did this one.

All of the standalone expansions were by different studios as well, I believe.

Okay, gotcha. Yeah.

So I, once again, revealing that I'm like the baby of 3M.A.

I didn't actually play Jacket Alliance, too.

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