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| Mercenaries 2: World in Flames | 
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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $59.99
Buy New: $35.99
You Save: $24.00 (40%)
Buy New/Used from $28.49
Avg. Customer Rating:  (28 reviews)
Sales Rank: 862
Platform: Playstation 3
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 15728
Model: 15782781
UPC: 014633157284
EAN: 0014633157284
ASIN: B000QAVV6G
Release Date: August 31, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Profit from chaos in this explosive, open-world action game | | • | Take on only the assignments you want | | • | Jam-packed full of colorful characters and environments | | • | Jump in and out of the game at any time | | • | Play solo or in cooperative multiplayer mode |
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Product Description
Mercenaries 2 features the latest and most dangerous in civilian and military tech, everything from shiny new sports cars, to the future-tech satellite-guided bunker-busting mini-nuke. Tanks, APCs, boats, or luxury automobiles, you can have it delivered to you in real time. If you run out of cash you can always acquire the gear you need in the field. Build Your Own Private Military Company - Recruit other mercenaries to build out your arsenal and options until you have the ultimate array of options to play with Playable Water - Fly over it, swim through it, race across it in boats, water is an active part of the game Landing Zones - Go to one of your captured drop zones and instantly get transported to the next hot spot and right back into the action
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A Mercenary's Rule: Everyone Pays Mercenaries 2: World in Flames is an explosive open-world action game set in a massive, highly reactive, war-torn world. When a power-hungry tyrant messes with Venezuela's oil supply he sparks an invasion that turns the country into a war zone. But for you, international crisis is all upside: You are a mercenary, and you profit from chaos. You are not a soldier. You don't have to play by anyone's rules. You have your own code: you will fulfill the terms of the contract, no matter what. If you see it, you can buy it, steal it, or blow the living crap out of it. Play your own way, or play with the help of a friend in the new co-op multiplayer mode. And remember rule #1 for mercenaries: EVERYBODY PAYS. |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 23 more reviews...
 Brilliant November 17, 2008
Mercenaries 2 is one of those games that is simply there for the fun factor, it's not necessarily there for the storyline or depth. It is just there to give you a hell of a crazy and over the top game that you can just pick up and go nuts with. There's not much to say about it as, like I say it's not very deep in regards to a storyline. Your basic goal is to win the trust of factions and do jobs for them, blowing up buildings, collecting bounties etc. That's basically it and depending on who you are it depends on you carrying out the mission covertly or with all guns blazing.
The main gem of this game is the surprising look and detail of it as due to the size of the map and the destructability, the detail of it is excellent and the displaying of the tropical setting is truly jaw dropping. The vehicles are plenty and range from heavy set high artillery tanks to fast sport cars. Other vehicles such as army helicopters and a range of boats also allow the game to be more flexible and fun.
I must admit that I use the cheats whilst playing the game and just like going nuts and blowing everything up. One of the cooler weapons in the game is the introduction of the Nuclear Bunker Buster. That's right a Nuclear bomb at your disposal. It's not the type of Nuke you'd expect but it's still pretty awesome to target a building and watch the mushroom cloud expel from the grouns with flames afoot.
My review isn't very detailed, but there you go. If I had to tell you one thing that would make you buy this game it would be this. This game is just so much fun I'm not even kidding. Try blowing up an oil rig and then try to tell me that isn't the coolest thing you've done on a game.
Impressive game November 13, 2008
I just got my ps3 and with it I got Mercenaries 2. When I first started the game I was shocked with the difference in graphics compared to the ps2. This game is amazing it is way better than the 1st Mercenaries. It is so fun to blow up anything in sight and go anywhere you desire. I will admit it though this game does have glitches. Do not worry though this is all made up for when you destroy your first building and watch it crumble. Although this game is not perfect it is definitely a very fun and enjoyable game from start to finish.
2 is better than 1 November 4, 2008
best game ever one of my favorite games .the vehicles are awesome and how you hi-jack vehicles is funny especially a tank.to sum it all up its worth it.
 Excellent game if you can see past the flaws October 15, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The original Mercenaries was one of my favourite games to every release on the PS2. It took Grand Theft Auto to a more mature level, removing the smut and 'glory killing'. You were a tool of war. No longer was it acceptable to kill anyone and get a way with it. You had consequences. The second installment is no different.
I went from being very very excited for this game to release, to 'meh', this looks okay, back to very excited. Lets get the bad out of the way.
First, the graphics. While not amazing 'next-gen' quality, they still do shine in some areas. The world is enormous and the graphics are really what I would expect from such an open world game. Grand Theft Auto IV comes to mind and I would pit what this game has to offer against GTA any day. The textures are pretty low resolution and when you stare at them, they start to look pretty bad.
The physics. Oh...my...gosh...The very first mission I played was one where you were asked to take a load of guns in the back of a truck to a destination. Apparently these guns were made of a very light-weight rubber as they constantly bounced their way out of the vehicle. I was literally about to put it up on Amazon and sell it. But I gave it another try...and another......and I finally got it. There are quite a few of these types of mission in the game that will really have you frustrated. Another reason the physics are so bad is that you can move almost anything by yourself. I'm talking big storage crates that ships carry. Just give it a kick and it moves! Whoops! Accidentally land your boat on the sand? Just kick it back into the water!
The AI. Terrible. There can be some missions where it gets hard (Capturing bounties that are surrounded by 4 AA Guns, 6 tanks, 4 recoil-less rifles, and about 50 guys can be tough) But for the most part, the AI is just plain dumb. You can get about 2 feet away from them before they might start shooting at you. And when they do, just give them a quick flick of your forearm and they drop!
And last, the stockpile system. While it offers loads of air strikes, helicopters, and supply dumps, it is a very frustrating system. In order to get ANYTHING that you own, you have to set it to one of your three 'equip' slots, select it from you menu, then throw a smoke grenade to have your helicopter pilot deliver. Why is this bad? If you're in the middle of an intense mission and you decide you want, nay, NEED a tank, you have to wait for your delivery man to bring it to you! Also, when you die and you're not in a mission, the med-vac takes you back to base and you start over with nothing equipped! You have to redeploy all of your equipment to get ready to go again. Why can't your base have a stockpile of weapons to just choose from?
Now for the good!
YOU CAN DESTROY ANYTHING!!! Literally! There is an enormous oil tanker in a lake that you can blow up. Any building you see is free game. Trees catch on fire. I have not seen anything that I cannot destroy! The ways you can destroy stuff are endless as well. Plant C4 on the building and blow it up. Plant C4 on a truck and drive it into the building and bail out and blow it up! Call in a laser guided bomb. This was the highlight of the first game and it hasn't changed with the second.
The sound is great. The game makes very good use of surround sound and bass. Although, my standard pistol does pack more of a 'sound punch' than my rifle, but at least it sounds cool. All the explosions and gun effects are very nicely done.
The missions. There are not a whole lot of story missions, but the side quests will keep you busy enough. There are 'High Value Targets' to capture and collect bounty on. There are 'Targets' to destroy for each faction. Then there are 3 part missions that progressively get harder, but the reward is greater. You can repeat those as many times as you want. There are also training exercises that you get with your personal faction, the PMC. You Headquarters lady has you sniping, using mounted weapons, etc., all for a wager that you can decide. Once you recruit your Mechanic, Helicopter Pilot, and Airstrike Pilot, they have training missions for you as well; a great way to make money.
The bottom line is, if you were a fan of the first Mercenaries, buy this game! The fun to be had blowing stuff up and wreaking havoc far outweighs an glitches that might be present in the game. And who knows, they may release a patch some day to fix all that.
Very fun shoot em up! October 15, 2008
Mercenaries 2 is one of the funnest games I've played in quite awhile when it comes to mindless action. The explosions and vehicles in this game rival any so far. The missions are all pretty fun and vary between a variety of different activities for a variety of different factions. The weapons are all fun to shoot and the vehicles are all fun to drive. Luckily, all the things I just mentioned are done in such an awesome manner that it is fairly easy to ignore the bad points in this game.
Bad Points: The ending is crap. You would think there would be something a little more thought out after the Americans and Chinese fight for oil in Venezuela. I won't tell you the ending that I saw, but I'll tell you this. It lasts all of less than half a minute and is a non-event. Another bad point is the voice acting which is just EXTREMELY annoying. It makes you want to kill all of the NPCs. On an island that headquarters the Jamaican faction all of the npc's say "hey mon" as you pass by. Sometimes they add a couple of words like "mercenary" before the phrase, but come on. What a cliche. The Australian girl at PMC headquarters has a very annoying voice also. It's like an Aussie Fran Dreshcer (not sure about spelling) that nags you whenever you mess up a mission.
Anyhow, for all my complaints (and I do have a few more) this game is A LOT of fun. Just wait until you get into a Hind gunship and start blasting a village with rockets and throwing troops thirty feet in the air with the nose cannon. Imagine GTA4, but you can blow EVERYTHING up. (including skyscrapers) It's so much fun destroying the gas tanks and vehicles while hovering around dodging AA guns and surface to air missles. I'm not sure yet about replay value as I normally never play a single player game after I beat it. (Unless for nostalgia sake) There is just too many good games out there anymore. Give this a try.
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