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Pure fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: August 31, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Its really hard to describe how good this game is so ill keep this short. There are over 170 vehicles to drive, you can create your own military company and employ mercenaries (you cant create any, its already pre-determined). The graphics are phenominal, it reminds me of Just Cause another great game. Its pretty long, and interesting. The new weapons are awsome, and there are many minor improvements from the last game, the last game had kinda depressing environments, these are gorgeous and bright and vivid, buy this and dont 2nd guess or look back. You wont be dissapointed

Nice

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: September 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The game is pretty good you can blow up anything the oil rigs are the best easy achievements i got 320 gp in 3 hours and the co-op online is beyond fun the only thing that i was disappointed with was no split screen cause i was looking forward to playing with my brother

You Are Kidding right !!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 16
Date: September 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

i will probably get this for 1 of my associates ,But the first game Mercs 1 made with Lucas Arts ,is 100 times better ,EA gets their hands on this crap over the past few months .and try to be stupid ,taking things out,like they have done the last 5 years with both football titles ,THIS CRAP is horrific ,glitches , bugs ,etc.. and you so called Fan Boys ,(don't like that word ) need to get over yourselves it's fun though,yeah right, Graphics look 16 bit Capiche!!! terrible excuse for a game ,again by EA who screws up whatever they touch ,hope they don't take the M rated fun of Mass Effect 2 ,and make it a teen rated game like this ,liberals have ruined the country and what we are allowed to play and watch ... stunned and how this company keeps ruining games ,and idiots still stand by them, nuff said......

"All I need is one good nuke..."

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: September 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Mattias Nilsson is back-- and Venezula is going to pay the price!

The original "Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction" was a real surprise for me. I had initially passed on the game but a friend recommended it so highly that I found myself picking it up about a year after release. The "open nature" of the world and the variability of how to accomplish each mission hooked me almost immediately and I found myself playing the game time and time again.

The point is that if you are a game player that loves an "open sandbox" world with all of the room for creativity and inspiration that entails, you're going to love Mercenaries 2: World in Flames.

I'll admit-- it's not a perfect port of the original concept. The "Deck of 52" is gone-- in favor of a more non-linear "high value target" set-up. There are still four factions-- and making their acquaintance isn't as easy as it was in the last game. However, the free-roaming nature and the ability to call down air strikes, supply and vehicle drops, and evacs when needed is part of what made the the first game so much fun. I've logged about 20 or so hours on Mercs 2 thus far and I'm still enjoying myself-- sometimes just driving around the virtual Venezula exploring the environement rather than simply rushing from job to job.

Graphically, it's a step up from the original but hardly something that I'd refer to as "next gen". Still, the graphics are sharp, the music is fun, and the voice casting is pretty spot-on. (The banter of the NPC's sometimes gets a bit repetitive but I find myself just tuning them out more and more.) The number of usuable vehicles is dramatically increased in this game-- including the addition of various watercraft including a few that were far larger than I would have thought for player-piloted craft. Also, boarding vehicles has now been "enhanced" by small mini-games rather than the direct approach but I have to yet to find this too much of a nuisance.

My only real complaint with the interface comes in the somewhat clunky nature of how queued support items are called up. Literally a player must stop, call the queue, and then choose the item rather than queuing it up and then using it when needed. This has caused problems a few times when a pesky bunker needed tending to. However, aside from this I find that I'm enjoying Mercs 2 far more than I have any other game purchase in recent memory!

I'd give it a solid 4 out of 5!

best game ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: September 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

this is the best game ever, you can do what ever you want to do, it is like gta and call of duty put in one game, this is a must game

Very worth the money

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: September 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is like Grand Theft Auto on Steroids. Merc's 2 is by far one of the best games I have ever played. There is so much to do and the graphics are awesome. This game is well worth a 10 out of 10.

loads of fun but it needs more polish

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: September 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

from the lush forests and jungles to the huge lakes and mountains, this game is huge. 99% of the world around you can be destroyed. you can level an entire city in a matter of minutes. as open world sandbox games continue to become more distinct we are seeing stronger subgenres within this type of game. while gta 4 offers a more detailed and intricate city with realistic gameplay, and Saints Row 2 will offer a more over the top approach to the urban open world, we see Mercenaries, the most underrated sandbox franchise combining those elements with a strong military/war backdrop to unleash the untimate weapon of mass destruction.

controls are very similar to the original, aiming and driving feel almost identical. the physics engine does a fine job with all the flying bodies and rubble, which brings me to my next point, some objects in the remaining debris dont react the way they should (example- i kicked around a massive chunk of an oil tank, which was taller than my character) the game has a relatively large amound of bugs (i expected a lot more polish after a 6 month delay)

the good thing is, the minorly annoying bugs are really the only real deterrant to the fun. although some missions are truly punishing. the co op has been a life saver on more than one occasion. one of the coolest additions to Mercs 2, drop in/out 2 player co op. and it works perfectly.

theres actually a story this time around. basically one of your employers who also happens to be a hopefuly president of VZ refuses to pay you and attempts to have you killed. now you're low on resourses and behind enemy lines in an unfamiliar country. time to build an empire great enough to take down the new Venezuelan president. time for revenge.

Sound/graphics are great considering the size and destructibility of the world. the textures/lighting effects arent Gow2 calibur and dont even begin to expect them to be. when a game consists of levels with load times in between and very little environmental interaction, it can produce those graphics. at the sacrifice of all sense of open ended gameplay.

vehicles range from civilian cars/trucks/motorcycles to military jeeps/tanks, plenty of watercraft from jet skis to massive ocean liners, and close to 20 different helicopters to top it all off. you can carry assault rifles, shot guns, grenade launchers, RPGs and lots more. theres tons of different airstrikes for any situation as well. mmm.. nukes..

essentially what it all winds down to is how much you like to blow things up. its time to get paid.

If you liked the first one, you'll like this one

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: September 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I rented this over the weekend from a place that accidentally put it on the shelf before the release date, so I've been playing it for a couple days and thought I could give you guys a quick run-down on what to expect

First, the game is 95% the same as the first Mercenaries. You still run around trying to gain favor with various factions, calling in airstrikes and vehicle drops, hijacking tanks and all that good stuff. If you played the first one you can pick this one up and just start playing it; the button layout is almost exactly the same too

Ok, so to the differences. You have a pair of binoculars now, that you can use to identify the factions of distant vehicles, among other things. The deck of cards idea for major and minor enemies is gone, or at least hasn't appeared in the part of the game I've completed. You can swim through water now, not that it really mattered that you couldn't before. You have the option of recruiting your own pilots and mechanics and personnel like that, to get certain benefits that came from the factions in the first game

And finally, the game appears a good bit more difficult than the first one. Or maybe to be more clear, it requires a little more of a thinking approach. I died more on the first couple of missions this time around than I did on the last couple the first time around. You can't just run straight at a tank and hijack it anymore; you'll get killed. You can't just run into an enemy compound and fight it out with 50 bad guys anymore; you'll get killed

You have to stand off and use your airstrikes on important targets, use your supply drops, use your RPGs and sniper rifles, all of that stuff, if you want to get even the simple missions done. So that's a plus in my book, it might not be in yours

So far I like this one pretty good. I would have enjoyed it more if there were more changes, or if you could actually do something with water besides swim in it (no firing from water that I can tell, no sabotaging bridges or whatever), but I guess they took the view of "if its not broke, don't fix it", which I can certainly understand

I'll update this review if I discover anything new worth talking about. Hope it helps you make a decision on whether or not to purchase Mercenaries 2

KaBAM, you blow stuff up and up and up

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: September 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I get game early this weekend and I play all night and day. I learn to shoot, blow things up, kill guys, get weapons. It very neat. I got to point where i blow up all city and i win. I don't know why. I like. You will like. Get. I asia.

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