Fired this up again to scratch an itch. Was expecting it to have aged badly, but provided you can deal with micromanagement and time units it's still best in class.
As far as I'm aware, they really don't make them like this any more. Modern XCOM set the bar for a sort of streamlined complexity, and I don't think JA2 would go down well now, but for me there's something really satisfying about its attention to detail that nothing else can quite match.
This run, one of my mercs threw a strop because she didn't want to work with another guy who was a goofy slob, so I had to fire him to keep her on. I know it's more common these days, but it still seems incredible to me that they squeezed in voice lines for every merc's opinion of every other merc in the game, of which there's like 30-odd? It just adds to the feeling of it being a live, whole, perfectly formed little world.
Update: managed to get the 1.13 mod working on Mac and it's a whole new world of complexity, gonna take me forever to play and I'm okay with that.
As far as I'm aware, they really don't make them like this any more. Modern XCOM set the bar for a sort of streamlined complexity, and I don't think JA2 would go down well now, but for me there's something really satisfying about its attention to detail that nothing else can quite match.
This run, one of my mercs threw a strop because she didn't want to work with another guy who was a goofy slob, so I had to fire him to keep her on. I know it's more common these days, but it still seems incredible to me that they squeezed in voice lines for every merc's opinion of every other merc in the game, of which there's like 30-odd? It just adds to the feeling of it being a live, whole, perfectly formed little world.
Update: managed to get the 1.13 mod working on Mac and it's a whole new world of complexity, gonna take me forever to play and I'm okay with that.