Unfinished Business is, in fact, the perfect subtitle for this game, because only the most dedicated fans of the original are likely to make their way to the bitter end. Whereas the earlier game was a complex combination of resource management and tactical combat, this time it's all about the combat. You have no economy to manage, you don't have to train your mercs, and you don't recruit militia or defend the sectors you've captured. Also gone is JA2's open-ended, freeform structure, in which every gamer would approach the capturing and managing of sectors in a different fashion. The combat is essentially the same as in JA2, requiring careful, meticulous planning and movement.
Every victory feels like a major accomplishment, which is a good thing.
But the downside this time is that it' s simply exhausting, and with nothing else to this game but the combat, Unfinished Business is just too prohibitively difficult to recommend to anyone but the already converted. 810, the high-tech dream machine. 810, the high-tech dream machine. ZDNet and ZDNet logo are registered trademarks of ZD Inc. Content originally published in Ziff Davis Media publications is the copyrighted property of Ziff Davis Media. Ziff Davis Media.