Santa Claus hasn`t forgot the Codex: Hired Guns

[SimpleComplexity]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uAcHpMgM8UU

Features include:

• Ally with up to four different factions for unique bonuses
• Crush your enemies with over 150 upgradeable weapons
• Hire over 30 mercenaries with various specialties and skills
• Destroy everything in your path with a fully interactive world and realistic physics
• Gain territory with brains, brawn or cold hard cash
• Determine your own fate with multiple storylines and endings
• Train your mercenaries to becomes experts at their craft or create all-around soldiers effective at every facet of combat.
• Attach special equipment to weapons like laser sights, scopes, grenade launches, and more to maximize their lethality.
• Smooth talk your enemies into working for you with the right combination of intimidation, wisdom, and money.
• Survey terrain and buildings in a fully 3D tactical mode. Zoom up close and personal to your mercenaries or back from the action to get a larger picture of the battle.
• Complete side missions to gain extra cash or loyalty.
• Upgrade captured territories with extra defense or squeeze more cash from them with new facilities and upgrades.

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Edit: Turns out the game was already released on other parts of the world. Anyone played it?

 

[Andyman Messiah]

Well, this looks kind of awesome.

 

[Shannow]

Saw it in the store. Looked it up on amazon and reviews were really bad. Didn't play it myself though.

 

[MetalCraze]

A game made by GFI. What other evidence of its shittiness do you need?

 

[Andyman Messiah]

A chance to play it?

 

[bozia2012]

Our biggest mag, CD-Action, said it's a must have for starved JA fans, but the combat is ridiculous because it's TB. Somehow today even "soviet" gaming mags think that TB games were developed only because of technological limitations and now it's totally passe.

I didn't get the memo.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Meanwhile, the biggest Finnish mag Pelit says it's kinda like Silent Storm with Jagged Alliance style and features... Which is a good thing. Got great points too.

Actually, this is their first review in a few years I read.

 

[JoKa]

i played the demo a year ago...i wasn't too impressed, but well, beggars can't be choosers. give it a try for yourself here.

 

[Jaesun]

hmmm I would fucking love a new game like this. I'll wait to see if it is shit.... or not.

 

[Vault Dweller]

That looked pretty fucking awesome. What's GFI famous for in Russia?

 

[Hümmelgümpf]

What's GFI famous for in Russia?

For releasing games buggier than Daggerfall and using customers as beta testers.

 

[Imbecile]

Aww. I thought it was a sequel to Amiga classic, Hired guns

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO6bVHBdiFw

 

[MetalCraze]

A shitty Alpha Antiterror (failed b-class tb tactics)
A recent shitty Warfare (failed b-class tb tactics)
some more shitty arcades

Basically a generic b-class games developer.

 

[Jason]

That looked pretty fucking awesome. What's GFI famous for in Russia?

Remember all the Jagged Alliance 3D drama? This is that very same game, but with the JA IP elements removed.

 

[Vault Dweller]

That sucks. I thought the name was familiar. *interest drops.

 

[denizsi]

It looks (not just graphically) better than what JA3 was shaping up to be the last time I checked it. Maybe GFI hit the right spot this time? We need someone to self-sacrifice for the greater good of the Mother Codex!

Saw it in the store. Looked it up on amazon and reviews were really bad. Didn't play it myself though.

Reviews on Amazon are usually terrible.

edit:

Remember all the Jagged Alliance 3D drama? This is that very same game, but with the JA IP elements removed.

Feature list sounds better than what JA3D would be when the drama took place. So maybe they improved from there on?

For instance, JA3D was first announced to be mission-based, but the feature list suggests otherwise, with territories, side missions and even training. That last one; devs of JA3D has also said that they would take out "boring" features of previous games, like training, or managing territories. Seems like a change of heart.

 

[Hümmelgümpf]

Reviews on Amazon are usually terrible.

So is this game.

 

[denizsi]

Any of you has heard Total Influence? Also looks interesting.

So is this game.

Will you please tell me that afterlife also exists, so that I can sleep more peacefully at nights?

 

[Spectacle]

What's GFI famous for in Russia?

For releasing games buggier than Daggerfall and using Russian customers as beta testers.

Fixed. Free beta testing before releasing a game worldwide sounds like a good business plan to me. :D

 

[Texas Red]

What's GFI famous for in Russia?

For releasing games buggier than Daggerfall and using Russian customers as beta testers.

Fixed. Free beta testing before releasing a game worldwide sounds like a good business plan to me. :D

Except Russia is their biggest market

 

[MetalCraze]

What's GFI famous for in Russia?

For releasing games buggier than Daggerfall and using Russian customers as beta testers.

Fixed. Free beta testing before releasing a game worldwide sounds like a good business plan to me. :D

Who said it's free? Those beta-testers actually pay GFI to try to find the game in the bugs.

 

[The Ticktockman]

Free from GFI's point of view.

 

[inwoker]

Lestat what the fuck your new nickname means?

 

[thesheeep]

You don't know?
Hahaha.

 

[Jora]

Finnish gaming magazine Pelit gave it a favorable review. According to the review the game has a good engine and gets the basics right. However, the game lacks the details and personality of JA2 and needs some polishing. Rough translation of the closing comments:

"Because of negative comments on JA forums I was positively impressed. Hired Guns has nothing to be ashamed of, it is the best of its kind since Silent Storm - a good tactical strategy game that only lacks the NPCs with personality and love for details that the Jagged Alliance series has.

If Hired Guns was released as Jagged Alliance 3D, with real Jagged mercs, it would not have been a sacriledge at least in my book. A bird in the hand is worth two on the publishing list."