Jagged Alliance DS

Apparently, without my knowledge, Strategy First had released a remake of the first Jagged Alliance for the Nintendo DS this Summer... I guess my NDS will soon get used again...

I wonder how sad it will make saibot if I tell him I have no clue what Jagged Alliance even is.

Not at all because I did not expect anything else.

In short: You are a guy tasked with liberating/killing/whatever a nation/person/whatever (depends on the game).

To do so you will hire a squad of mercenaries, lead them through turn-based tactical combat, plan how to approach the campaign, try to make money and so on.

The funniest part is that every merc has an actual personality and so some might refuse to work with certain other mercs, work especially well with others again or attack even if you did not order them to (like some rather mentally unhinged characters).

The campaign also often has some roleplaying elements between the battles, which mix it up nicely.

Also great is the ridiclious stuff you can pull, like going to a flower ordering website through your in-game laptop and send the Evil Queen you are meant to take out in JA2 a bouquet of flowers and a nice card reading: "Hope you die and rot in Hell".
The ensuing cutscene after this is hilarious.