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You do so by hiring mercs from the Association of International Mercenaries (A.I.M.) who battle it out over the 60 sectors on Metavira. But in video game land, the Richards refuse to take this lying down and call you in to fight back. In the real world, this is where the story would end. They're bamboozled by a former research assistant named Lucas Santino, who takes the island over for his own nefarious profit-making purposes and stocks it with soldiers. Yet kindly old Jack (who looks like the "Most Interesting Man in the World" from the Dos Equis commercials) and his leggy Latina daughter are robbed of their chance to save the planet. Nuclear tests conducted on the island in the 1950s have resulted in a mutant generation of Fallow trees producing sap that can cure all manner of diseases.

You take on the role of an unseen military advisor to scientist Jack Richards and his daughter, Brenda, on the tropical island of Metavira. What made the original Jagged Alliance so compelling back in the day is still present, however.

Loads of mercenary details give Jagged Alliance a serious role-playing-game feel. A few design tweaks and a revamped control system would have made this blast from the past a lot more enjoyable. Developer Cypron Studios has ported the PC original to the Nintendo handheld in its entirety with few-if any-changes, and sadly the game has not aged well. If you want to take a trip back in time to 1994, there are plenty of better options than playing Jagged Alliance for the Nintendo DS.