Jagged Alliance 2 has SPM!

[Harry Renquist]

No I'm actually talking about JA2 Back in Action. After this they promise to work on JA3.

Alot of people never gave the UFO series a chance. I still think its underrated. The only problem with UFO Aftershock was the limited number of random encounters. Someone recently modded it and added the missing random encounters that were supposed to be included in the game. Its still a good game.
Alot, alot better than other games like UFO:AI and UFO: Extraterrestrials.

UFO:Extraterrertrials was so bad...well it was unbelieveably incomplete. I can't believe I paid $50. for shareware.

[IceShade]

UFO: After-x were a great bunch of games, although the first two both suffered from "egh, I'm so bored. 20 more countries to capture, here we go."

And Afterlight was just garbage, imo. They all lacked polish, but thats to be expected with obscure games.

But at least I had fun. It had disposable mercs, wide range of weapons, research and technology (kinda like CGL, I guess), and a sort of dynamic world.

Not the best SPM engine, but SPM nonetheless, and thus better than pure turn based.

[Inverted]

I can understand the people who whine about the turn-based system, especially as the game is called JA2, and supposed to be some kind of remake.
Turn-based and SPM are very different, and while I like both I can see why many people dislikes one of them, and with that name on their game they are now asking for the hate of TB-lovers.

What I really cannot understand is why the devs made the decision to make it SPM only, which will result in some bad reviews for sure, even if the game will be great.
With a working SPM system it doesn't take much effort to create a turn-based mode, and all the die-hard fans would be overjoyed. It was already done in X-COM Apocalypse, actually.