madcat75

I loved Ports of Call both the original and XXL versions, so I went into this game hoping for more of the same but even though I played for many hours I found the game lacking in a few areas. The world map really needs a zoom function as sometimes it can be hard to see the different ports, having to unlock ports is also frustrating especially the smaller ports when it is hard to find any contracts going there, a list so you are able to see the condition of your ships at a glance, a lit of ports and what they supply so I don't have to click on each one looking for a particular cargo, The missions your Investor gives you in career are stupid, they give you way too much to do in a short space of time, most times when you don't have the ship or equipment required, also the company contracts are never worth it as you will spend most of the money on fuel sending an empty ship back to the first port as there is never anything going there. Graphic wise the game looks very good but as I said there is just not enough there to help you, a lot of info you need is missing, plus it is annoying to save up for a new ship, be near your goal and then have your investor take away most of your cash sometimes driving you deep in debt. TL:DR, an ok game needs some more work to make it a good game.

As much as I love the first two Jagged Alliance games there is no way that a game this bad can be compared to them, the AI is stupid, the pathfinding awful and the graphics are not much better than JA2, I played this in the end using a trainer I gave my mercs 100 in everything and the best weapons and armour and even then 6 of my mercs were taken out by 1 enemy because I didnt tell them to attack him, even on guard they will only guard in the direction you tel them too. The lack of a way to change formation, the so called tutorial that teaches you next to nothing ( shows you othing about things to do with the main ma, doesnt tell you how to give militia weapons etc) and the so called 'stealth' aspect is a joke no matter what you do you can crawl and sneak your way to the enemy but there are times you tell your men to shoot someone ad they run towards him and hug him, also it doesnt help that the enemy sometimes have xray vision and supre accuracy, the delay between giving an firing order and them shooting is laughable, told them to fire once and took them 20 seconds to shoot and by that time the enemy had wiped out 5 of my squad. I am in agreement with the rest of the reviews here that this should have either been released at a different name or in coming patches be fixed so that you can actually play the game without screaming at your monitor at how stupid your mercs are.