OT: Master of Magic 2 - now looking quite likely

[Pirateiam]

Take pity on my BELOVED Jagged Alliance series. First, Sirtech goes tits up, then the franchise is purchaced by infamous garbage-spewer Strategy First, who oh by the way just layed off everyone and fired the whole JA legacy team. Then they hand the whole kit and kaboodle over to an unknown russian developer, who don't seem to have anyone on staff who speaks english. Actually to call them unknown would be generous, as they are best-known for a horrible piece of trash cyberpunk game whose name escapes me. To make things worse? TWO DAYS after the 2-year development program is announced, they RELEASE SCREENSHOTS. Yes in two days, they managed to get a working alpha going and post screens on the webpage. Seems they are using the "engine" of another TBS to kick start their process. I've never heard of a TBS using an engine from an existing game before. This ought to be interesting.

That is very troubling news. I followed Sirtech's demise with sadness. I probably played JA2 more than any other game so far. I think I finished 4 times now from start to finish. Just the personalities of the Mercs were entertaining and what came out there mouths were hilarious and sick. To this day the funiest line in any game I played is when I the hot babe Merc was killed (her name escapes me) and one of the Phycho Mercs from AIM wanted put her on ice for later use!