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GTA and Ghost Recon had a baby!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 19 / 20
Date: January 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

First off let me say that my review is based on the single player campaign only. I know it kinda sucks without multiplayer and the Xbox live people will bitch but single player games have been coming up way short lately selling the game on the live or multiplayer when these things should be added benefit!
Ok, so the game has all the concepts of GTA3: Map system is identical, one massive area (about the size of at least 2 or maybe all 3 GTA3 islands put together), and contracts can be taken from different groups for cash and new merchandise in your online black market store. The game play is like a combo of Ghost Recon 2 and GTA3. The graphics are exceptional and the music was surprisingly good too. Every structure, vehicle, prop, and aircraft is destructible! The more creative you are the more fun you can make the game... have a large group of enemies near by? Air Strike and blow em to bits! Road Block? Put a pack of C4 on the hood of your vehicle, drive towards and jump out then trigger the C4... Road block cleared! There is so much more you can do and so much I have yet to discover but this game defiantly came under the radar and is shaping up to be a very nice surprise.
My only negative is that it did seem to have about a 2 hour learning curve to get comfortable with the controls and general functions of the game.
In short this is a great game for a solo experience, huge replay value and from what I can tell the length is very refreshing.

Impressive. Most impressive. Rockstar has taught you well.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 14
Date: January 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is excellent!

I wish that this had been an Xbox exclusive, because then all my friends with a PS2 and the Grand Theft Auto series would be feeling left out for once!

This game rivals the GTA concept but surpasses and delivers where GTA fails. Don't get me wrong, GTA is a great game, but the series seems to have grown stagnate - Mercenaries does something new but very familiar, making it a great game that is easy to pick up and play. The military story is fresh and seemingly ripped from the headlines. The game is very enjoyable and not overly simplistic, but not frustratingly difficult.

Plus you can blow stuff up! And then blow it up again! And then blow the crap out of it some more! Totally awesome greatness!

This is definitely not a game you rent, this is one to be purchased and put on display in your finest game display case!

AWESOME GAME!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 12
Date: March 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is a very fun game. It is like a combo of a strategy war game and a Grand Theft Auto game.

Basically, the plot is to catch (dead or alive) the deck of 52 and complete missions for The Allies (The AN, like the UN in real life), South Korea, The Russian Mafia (has their own website to order supplies so they're good to work for), and China. You can switch who you want to work with time to time but make sure to not become enemies with other countries.

A really fun part of this game is you get paid for completing objectives like stealing a North Korean missile truck, blowing up North Korean tanks, eliminate the Russian Mafia captains, blowing up pretty much anything (except civilians or AN troops), and more.

While not on a mission, you can do side missions to earn extra cash and drive around to find a person from the deck of 52. You can kill a member of the deck of 52 but you only get half the cash so bringing them alive is a lot better.

Every car is "steal-able" and certain cars give you a certain disguise like a civilian, a North Korean, and as any of the other countries.

You choose from three characters to play as through the whole game. One has more armor, one is more stealthier, and one a the fastest. This game is a lot of fun.

It's just like Grand Theft Auto but with an international plot. I give this game five out of five stars without a doubt.

big hit

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 13
Date: February 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I'm a busy father: small infant daughter, full time tech job, loving wife, etc. When I finally find time to sit down with the xbox, the last thing I want to do is get involved in a year-long role-playing game, online clans, or anything like that. My xbox time is spent on one thing only: blowing stuff up. Mercenaries is perfect for this. I can drive and blow stuff up, fly and blow stuff up, or run and blow stuff up. The game is deep enough to keep my interest over time and visually interesting enough to make me want to play. There's nothing like peeking over a ridge and letting an RPG fly into a DPRK tank. Bring 'em on.

FUN, MORE FUN, PLUS EVEN MORE FUN!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 12
Date: January 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

there hasn't been a game this fun for quite some time. the last time i had this much fun playing was when conflict desert storm came out. i love the free roaming this game offers. it's so refreshing compared to the so many linear games out now. you can go just about anywhere. (beware of restricted zones) you can fly, drive, shoot, & blow up any vehicle in the game. the graphics are great. the graphics are a lot like Full Spectrum Warrior. you can choose one of three characters, each with their own strengths & weaknesses. the maps are insanely large. even using a vehicle, it will take a good 5 minutes to get across the map. the primary objectives are capturing a "deck of 52" military & civilian people under General Songs leadership. there are also lots of secondary objectives & tasks to up your bank account. because with the money, you can buy vehicles, supplies, airstrikes, etc. without writing a novel here, i highly recommend this game. i assure you, it will keep you busy for hours & hours.

GTA times 10!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: January 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

There is finally a game that takes the GTA concept and makes it 10x better. Think GTA in vietnam or Iraq. i LOVE this game! Where in the GTA games I quickly got bored after completing half of the missions, in Mercenaries, i've beat the game once and am starting it all over again with another charecter! The maps are huge. You run through the different terrains in one of dozens of different military vehicles hunting down the 52 cards represented by 52 members of the hostile North Korean regeme.

You also can do side missions for diffent factions like the Russians, the Chinese, the South Koreans or the Allied Forces to earn money to buy equipment and armory. You can even buy air support to help you complete a mission! ( imagine calling an air strike on an enemy base and leveling the whole place with a carpet bomb as you run for your life to escape the hail storm!)

Graphics and sound are amazing. They make this game a whole lot more enjoyable. Overall, this game beats GTA hands down in fun factor. Replay value is unbeatable. One game that's actually worth the $50.00 I paid for it. Get it and see what I mean.

Awesome, everything it promises.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: January 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I admit, I've gotten frustrated with this game a few times, but only because I got too excited and ran right into the middle of a field of North Koreans without realizing there were tanks all around.

But that's it.. that's where the bad ends, and the good takes the rest. I'm on the second map so far, which comes after you've beaten the Clubs and the Diamonds (you get a deck of 52 cards, a la the Iraqi playing cards, with the bosses aka top ranking NK officials on them). And let me tell you.. these maps are gigantic. Think Grand Theft Auto 3, all islands combined, and then some. Maybe not quite San Andreas size.. but I've only played that once.

The graphics are awesome. The buildings collapsing after an air strike hits, or after you blow up C4 next to one, or hit one with an RPG or any of the other many explosives you get, is awesome. The tanks exploding, throwing their contents (aka soldiers) 20 feet in the air is awesome. The animation as you smack one of the bosses in the noggin, grab their hand, throw them to the ground, put your knee smack-dab in the middle of their spine and latch the cuffs on them is awesome. The helicopter coming to... well you get the picture. All this, and sooooo much more.

If you own an Xbox, you must own this game.

Just as good, if not better than Halo, and GTA.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: January 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

You are a mercenarie of course, so you basicly kill or capture people, steal vehicles, and blow stuff up for money. You start out being dropped in a wastland with 5 armys that are in there ether to gain control of as much land as possible, defend there land, or in there to stop the fighting. These five armys are, North Korea, South Korea, China, The Rusian Mafia, and the Allies aka, the USA.

This is problebly one of the 3 best games I'v played. the top 3 are, Halo 2, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and Mercinaries: Playground of destruction. If you see the vehicle, you can drive it. But for some odd reason, no boats, or planes, hmm. yet still a wide line of All kinds of transportation to choose from. Jeeps; Troop Trucks; Tanks; APC's, Hummers; Technicals (pick-up trucks with a machine gun in back.); Helicopers from small attack, to full fledged assalt choppers, to cargo/transport choppers. Civlian vehicles, such as buses, cargo trucks, cars, flat bed trucks, but no 18-wheelers. (Come on, this is in Asia, what do you expect.)

There are plenty of wepons to chose from. From an AK-47, to a Rocket Launcher, with lots of other wepons in between. You can also man statinary guns like a gun on a vehicle, a tripod stand, and a few types of stationary feild howitzers, and cannons.

If you are running low on health or ammo, you can call for a medivac (you get taken out of there to the nearest MASH), or a wide range of suppy boxes to chose from. If you need some transeportation, you can Hi-Jack a vehicle, or call in for one. You have a wide variety or vehicles to call in too. If you want to blow up a strong structurs, or cause chaos in a small area, you can call in an air strike, with plenty types to choose from too. NOTE: if you call for a medivac, supplys, transportation, or an air strike it costs money and you start out with nothing to calll in, but that changes ALOT as you go on in the game.

So all in a nut shell, if you like GTA, Halo, and miitary games, this one is just about the best you can get, But There IS NO MULTI-PLAYER, but the campaign is so good, that doesnt matter.

Best X-Box Game Ever!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: January 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

For me, the best way to gauge how good a video game might be is how hard it is for me to put it down to go do other things. As it stands with Mercenaries, I had a lot of trouble putting the controller down. This game is simply pure addiction!

Too often, the video game industry expects us to shell out $50 for a weak or average game that you get bored with in a couple of days. Not so here. If you love blowing things up into billions of pieces and you like non linear game play (ie: Vice City) then you must own this game. The controls are easy to get used to and the first few objectives are fairly simple enough, so that you aren't getting killed over and over again. You get air strikes, C4, RPGs, machine guns and lots more. Best of all, you do it all for the old greenback.

All of this combined makes for a great gaming experience. Three cheers for Lucas Arts! You redeemed yourself after the boring KOTOR!

The Most Fun You'll Have With C4!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: July 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game has got to be the greatest game I have ever played for several reasons that I will get to in a moment. I think that it is important to back up my claim with some experience. So for that reason, I think that it is important to point out that I have been a gamer all my life and have owned the following games systems: Sega Master System, Sega Genesis, Nintendo 64, Sega Saturn, Playstation, Sega Dreamcast, Playstation 2, and XBOX. I have played many great titles for each of those systems and have experienced a lot of fun in the process.

Now that I have established that I have extensive video game experience to make the previous claim I will go into detail on why this game is the best I have ever played. The best way to describe this game is that it is a cross between Grand Theft Auto and Star Wars Battlefront (only you don't die as easy as in that game). You are a MERCENARY, and you work for a company called ExOps that accepts contracts from countries and private interests. You play on a map that pits you and four other factions against the North Korean army. The four other factions (South Korea, Allied Forces (UN), China, and the Russian Mafia) contract you to do jobs for them that are most times targeted at the North Korean army, but are sometimes targeted at one another. The more you do for a faction the more you are liked by that faction, and the more you do against a certain faction the more you are hated by that faction. As you complete missions for these factions you are on the hunt for the deck of 52, which are 52 of the most powerful North Korean individuals that have ties to the North Korean army. Each have bounties and you can collect more or less based on whether the contract is detained dead or alive. Cool, huh?

This game is a complete and udder thrill to play because you can either complete missions, collect bounties or just drive around blow stuff up. I love the game play, because it is pretty straight forward and easy to use (especially if you have played GTA). There are lots and lots of weapons to use in the game and it is realistic (like Halo) in that you can only carry two weapons with you at a time in addition to your two grenade types and of course the C4!

Are you running low on life? Call in a helicopter to drop off some medical supplies. Want to do a mission in a tank instead of the civilian POS you just stole? Call in a helicopter to drop you off a fully equiped tank. Want to get somewhere fast? Order a helicopter with a full crew to be dropped off. Can't blow something up on your own? Call in a laser guided air strike. This game has something new for you each and every time you play it.

Things that I really like about the game...I like the fact that your character will make remarks throughout the game. When a blow a lot of stuff up at once he'll say something like "cool!" When I'm out of ammo and a tank is barreling down on me he'll say something like "you want me to throw my shoe at him?" It's just so much fun!!! I enjoy getting paid money each and every time I blow a North Korean jeep to pieces. I enjoy the creativity that you can use with all your weapons, like the C4. You can strap some C4 to the hood or your car, drive it into an enemy base, bail out and detonate. You can plant some C4 in the middle of the road and wait in the bushes while a North Korean jeep drives over it and then detonate.

BUY THIS GAME! You will enjoy it and think that it is the best game that you have ever played too.

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