Game News Jagged Alliance 3D NOT a remake

[Ausir]

Tags: Jagged Alliance 3D; MISTLand

Thanks to a guy called <b>Snap</b> from the <a target=_blank href=http://www.strategyfirst.com/forum/cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum;f=47>Strategy First forum</a>, who has a good knowledge of both Russian and English, it turned out that <b>Jagged Alliance 3D</b> is not a remake of Jagged Alliance 2: Unfinished Business at all. UB was mentioned only as a size scale - JA3D to JA3 will be like UB to JA2.
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Well, this definitely sounds better.
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Spotted at: <A HREF="http://www.strategyfirst.com/forum/cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=47;t=000049">Jagged Alliance 3 forum</A>

 

[Stark]

duh. Someone who knows Russian kindly go over and confirm once and for all?

are they so confident that JA3 will sell well that they immediately work on JA3D as sort of add on?

 

[Elwro]

I can try. Can you give me a link? I only found a Frenach subforum.

 

[Ausir]

JA3D will be developed before, not after JA3. It will work as more of a prequel than an addon.

 

[Anonymous]

Yay! *confetti and noisemakers*

 

[Stark]

I can try. Can you give me a link? I only found a Frenach subforum.

obtained from a previous news comment in this forum:

http://www.mistgames.ru/forum/?act=thread&bid=19&thr_id=2009&sort=1

I absolutely dunno if it's French or Russian though. hope I'm pointing to the correct place.

 

[Ausir]

It's Russian. French doesn't usually use cirillic.

 

[Stark]

JA3D will be developed before, not after JA3. It will work as more of a prequel than an addon.

still does not make sense. why simultaneously develop 2 similar games (as far as i gather) and publish them at roughly the same time? it's like competing with yourself.

 

[Ausir]

They're not developing them simultaneously. JA3D first, then JA3, based on the same engine.

 

[Elwro]

Fuck. That's a big portion of text. Which guy should we trust? It seems that this "napalm" guy says that JA 3D WILL be a remake of Unfinished Business and will be a prequel to JA 3.

But I take no responsibility for that because I now have no time to check the vocabulary.Maybe later...

BTW. Check the last comment. It's by Thrash. I remember someone like that here (or maybe it was Trash) who knew Russian.

 

[SilencerBY]

The first message from napalm was exactly as I said:
JA3D will be a 3D remake of UB, and a prequel for JA3. They will make and release JA3D, then JA3.

In the second message, he said that it was a mistake and he shouldn't use word 'remake'. And in fact, UB was mentioned only as a size scale - JA3D to JA3 would be like UB to JA2.

ps. Confirmed once and for all
pps. In case you have any doubts, Russian is my native language...
ppps. …while English is not as you might have noticed

 

[Ausir]

Your English is definitely better than that of the JA3 developers .

 

[Jebus]

Here's a link to the English MiST forums..

It won't do you much good, though, because there's nothing much happening there.

Anyway, if you want to have all the Jagged Alliance 3 news all listed out in a nice blog, go take a peek over at Jagged Alliance Galaxy...

 

[Ausir]

We alrady have all the JA3 & 3D news listed here:
http://www.rpgcodex.com/seriesdetails.php?id=15

 

[butsomuch]

http://www.gamefactoryinteractive.com/news.html

06.06.2004

Game Factory Interactive and its development studio MiST Land - South team up with Strategy First to continue the Jagged Alliance and Disciples series.

Game Factory Interactive and Strategy First are pleased to announce that they have entered into a contract that will see MiST Land South (Game Factory's development studio) develop the following titles on behalf of SFI: Jagged Alliance 2 in 3D, Disciples III and Jagged Alliance 3, all for the PC platform.

MiST Land South, located in Russia has already begun work on the projects, but no specific release dates have been set.

"MiST Land South have already proven themselves to us with COPS 2170: The Power of Law and ALFA: Antiterror, two of their titles that we will publish here in North America," says Don McFatridge, President and CEO of Strategy First Inc. "We are confident that together we will bring the Disciples and Jagged Alliance franchises to a whole new audience."

Strategy First will be the worldwide publisher of all three games, while Game Factory Interactive will publish them in Russia and Eastern European markets. "Together with Game Factory Interactive, we have already had good cooperation with Strategy First as they are bringing two of our titles to the North American market. We're happy to have an opportunity to work with these celebrated and successful franchises," says Vitaly Shukov, Head of MiST Land South. "We will work hand-in-hand with Strategy First to create high quality, modern, and fascinating games that keep the legendary soul and atmosphere of these popular franchises."

More information and details about these projects will be released in the coming weeks.

 

[Sol Invictus]

ANOTHER conflicting report. So which is it?

In any case, JA2 in 3D sounds very, very nice.

 

[voodoo1man]

Well, it's easy to see how everyone got confused. Hope everyone has Cyrillic fonts.

The following is all from the MiST Land's forums, where Napalm (the guy with Tinkles the cat as his avatar) is one of the developers on ML's Warfare.

"JA 3D ????? ???????????? ?????????? ???????? unfinished business, ????? ????, ??????????? ? ??? 3. ??? ???? ????? ??????????????? ???????????????. ?????????? ??????????? ??? ????? ??????? - ????????????...
??????? ??????? ????? ??????, ???????? ? ????????????? [sic] ?????????????, ?? ??? ??? ??? SFi ??????."

JA 3d will be an original, 3d remake of Unfinished Business, a try of the feather [the closes English analogue would be a "dip in the pond"], the pre-history for JA 3. These games will the developed sequentially. To start two such projects in parallel would be suicide. The role-playing system will be the old one, possibly with cosmetic modifications, but here it's up to SFi.

But later,

"JA 3d ?? ????? ?????? ???????? unfinished business. ????? ?????? ?????? ???? ??????????? ???. ? ?????? ?????? ???? ???? ??? ?? ??????? ????????. ??? ??? ??? 3? ????? ????????????? ? ??? 3 ??? ?? ??? unfinished business ? ???????????? ??? 2, ?? ???? ??? 3? ????? ??????. ??? ??? ??? ??????? ?????."

JA 3d will not be a DIRECT remake of Unfinished Business. The word "remake" was really used unnecessarily. In the given post I was talking about the scope of the projects. JA 3d will be to JA 3 what Unfinished Business was to the original JA 2, that is, JA 3d will be smaller. That is all that was meant.

Ok. Fuck this. Can you please enable Unicode in the boards?

 

[Jebus]

Ok. Fuck this. Can you please enable Unicode in the boards?

Why? This way it has a nice misterious feel to it...

 

[Spazmo]

I've got a better idea. Let's wait for the MiST guys to actually figure out what the fuck they're making with JA3D and let them take a little while in a quiet room with a pencil and a pad of paper so they can write it out clearly. Until then, don't bother with the JA team's latest endorsement for Hooked on Phonics.