Overview
Hired Guns: The Jagged Edge is a turn-based strategy that puts you command of a squad of specialists for hire in the genre’s biggest game-world yet: the African country Diamond Coast. Diamond Coast is a playground for the cruel and corrupt, each with their own agenda. Choose your friends wisely and buy an army of ruthless mercenaries to unleash mayhem on your foes. Choose “jobs” from different factions and complete them for cash to upgrade your weapons and hire more elite soldiers of fortune.
Features
- 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.
Product Data
- Complexity: Medium
- Field of Play: Tactical (Turn-Based) and Strategic (Pausable Real-Time)
- Historical Period: Modern
- Theater: Fictional African Country (Diamond Coast)
- Unit Scale: Individual soldiers, squads
- Turn Play: IGOUGO
- Players: 1
- AI: Yes
- TCP/IP: No
- PBEM: No
- Game Editor: Script files editable in Excel
- Display Resolution: Standard (800x600 – 1280x1024)
System Requirements
- Minimal configuration:
- OS: Windows XP SP2 / Vista
- Processor: Intel Pentium IV 1800 MHz or similar
- RAM: 512 Ìb
- DVD-ROM Drive
- HD Space: 3500 Ìb free
- Sound: DirectX Compatible
- Video: 128 Ìb 3D, NVidia GeForce 5600 / ATi Radeon 9600Pro or higher
- DirectX 9.0c
- Keyboard, mouse
- Recommended configuration:
- OS: Windows XP SP2 / Vista
- Processor: Intel Pentium IV 3000 MHz or similar
- RAM: 1024 Ìb
- DVD-ROM
- HD Space: 3500 Ìb free
- Sound: DirectX Compatible
- Video: 256 Ìb 3D, NVidia GeForce 6600GT / ATi Radeon X1600Pro or higher
- DirectX 9.0c
- Keyboard, mouse