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26.4.2005

Mercenaries lets the player roam around in two diferent maps in the Korean Peninsula, pitting several factions (South and North Korea, China, Russian Mafia and Allied Nations (read, the US)), each with its own agenda, while the player is out there making money, collecting souvenirs, and generaly creating exploding chaos.It gets repetitive after a while, and the whole plot is linear, both are true, but the freedom of movement granted to the player allows numerous ways in which to carry out the missions, or drive around the countryside, shooting at everything that moves, using the Russian Mafia as your friendly neighbourhood service provider of mayhem in the form of artillery and aerial bombardments.One can spend hours driving, flying, or just walking around, wrecking and killing troops (though civilians killed come out of your account as collateral damage!).One gets all sorts of nice particle effects, along with shadows and fog. Throughout the map the lighting conditions change from a bright sunny day, to rain and thunder, or even discoloured settings, reflecting on the more dangerous parts of the map.The weapons at our disposal are pretty bog-standard, M-16, Ak47, RPG, Dragunov, sub-machineguns, and grenades are used throughout the whole game, with the ability to pickup ammo or the weapons from the downed friendlies and enemies. These weapons are complemented by the weapons carried on the various vehicles the player can use, machinegun, cannon, artillery shell in some places, and missiles.Aside the missions from the various factions (needed in order to get all the cards, that is, all the enemy leaders), the player can also collect several treasuries that are spread through the countryside, destroy hard-to-see listening posts, and demolish monuments. Each of these actions brings a bonus for each faction and help to break the linearity of the game.As the player advances in the missions, the maps evolve, reflecting the changing situation in the whole peninsula, factions which controlled some areas at the beginning may controle new ones at the end, buildings get demolished through combat actions won't get rebuilt, this all gives a sense that we are just a small part in the chain of events.In conclusion, Mercenaries is a true little gem from a not so well-known developer that has always brought forth solid games (I still remember when Battlezone II came out for the PC). The maps are vast, and there's enough going on to make you come back over and over, just to try it in another way.
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23.7.2004

This has the potential to be one of the best games ever.Game DescriptionBrave gamers aim to eliminate a maniacal dictator, for the good of humanity as well as significant monetary compensation from the highest bidder. As its title suggests, Mercenaries puts players in the roles of soldiers for hire, who find ample opportunities for employment as an unexpected menace leads the nations of the world to the brink of disaster. In a quick and bloody coup, the Prime Minister of North Korea has been displaced by a powerhungry general called Sung, who now threatens the world with nuclear attack. In the role of an American, British, or Swedish soldier of fortune, players choose their patron and price,and then go to work at eliminating the 52 most wanted perpetrators of the new North Korean regime. Each target is assigned a different playing card, for easy reference.Naturally, the threat of nuclear attack draws considerable international interest, and players may choose employment by such diverse entities as the United Nations, the U.S. Coalition, China, or the Russian Mafia, as they work to collect the 52 bounties which will complete the deck. While the employer may set the basic mission objectives, mercenaries decide for themselves how to get the job done once they're on location. The game features over 30 weapons and more than 20 different vehicles, including cars and trucks, planes, helicopters, and tanks, allowing players to reach their goals through the tactics and equipment of their choosing. Mercenaries' story line features multiple possible endings, and the game's conclusion will depend on moral decisions made by the player's character throughout the various missions.With the phenomenal success of Rockstar's 128bit generation Grand Theft Auto games, the notion of "emergent gameplay" created a buzz among some game developers and journalists. The general idea is to present an openended world that reacts naturally and appropriately, no matter what players try to do or when they try to do it. The gameplay "emerges" from the game world itself. This style is prominent in contemporary games such as Jak II and Beyond Good Evil, and according to the publisher, it's fundamental in the design of Mercenaries as well. Player characters are set loose in large "sandbox" levels, where they must choose how they'll accomplish goals in terms of the game world's overall dynamic, instead of by following a scripted series of events.
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23.12.2006

I got this game for my birthday after begging and begging my parents for it. I started off playing it years ago on a demo game controlling a swedish guy with a weird hair style and i thought"wow!". It was brilliant! And when I unwrapped it on my birthday i pegged it downstairs and shoved it in the drive!It starts off with you choosing a character out of a lady or two men, and then you start the game. Your in an aeroplane and you have to pick up your grenades, PDA and your gun(Carbine) and then you get in a jeep and fall out of the plane. You have to drive to the allied HQ and sign a contract to get a mission. You have to capture a guy and then blow up these artillery strikes with some bombs you get given.And then you get to go get contracts from other countries, like the russian maffia, china and south korea. When you do the right amount of contracts for a country, you have to try and get the king, queen or jack of the rank your on. When you get all three, you go on a really special mission to get the ace of your rank. There are four ranks in the game, clubs, diamonds hearts and spades, you progress to the next rank once you have caught the ace of your current rank. The main bad guy of the game is General Song, and he is the ace of spades. You get to go on a mission to catch him at the end of the game.Also, the reason i wanted the game, is because there are a sea of weapons, grenades and air strikes, which once you have unlocked you can buy any of the ones of that are available. Or if you see a gun on the floor you can pick it up and drop your old weapon, you can carry two guns at a time.But my favorite is the vehicles. Mainly, if you can see it, you can drive it, or fly it unless its a plane. You've got vehicles like jeeps, tanks,hellicopters, even civillian volvo's! You can buy these when you unlock them, or if you see one you can get in and go! Although most hellicopters you see are in the air you can get them if they are low. All you need is a sniper, just shoot the pilot and the thing will come spiralling down to earth, but try not to let it land in water cos then if your dumb enough and you want it bad, you'll jump in the water and die fast. They don't have unlimited life so it will probably blow up any way.Overall a brilliant game, the only way i could improve it was by giving it multiplayer, then it could just about reach the rank of the halo series.
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26.2.2005

Games like this are called sandbox games. It means that the game gives you a sense of freedom and a non-linear path to complete the game. Fantastic. There need to be more games like this one. Mercenaries is very reminiscent of GTA, but with the control style of halo, including the ability to 'hijack' vehicles. The best thing is, like halo 2, you can hijack moving vehicles even helicopters and it is incredibly entertaining watching a soldier having his head cracked off the controls in the cockpit then falling to his death from a great height. what makes this game so enjoyable is the fact that just about anything can be destroyed. you can literally reduce entire towns to rubble. which is great.like GTA, if you dont fancy doing a mission then you can do a one man assault on military bases and cities. you can even fly about in helicopters picking up civilian cars with a giant magnet and smashing them off buildings or dropping them from a great height onto people below. my point is that there is much that can be done in this game whether you are trying to complete it mission by mission or just dip-in and have a laugh. this game is definatly a pick-up-and-play-game and for that reason anyone can enjoy it. theres a good 20+ hours of gameplay so even the biggest nurd will have somthing to sink his teeth into. i cant recommend this game enough but if there is one fault that really stands-out its that daft soundtrack. its like theyre having a laugh. it sounds like theres a choir randomly singing nearby and it sounds totally ridiculous having holy singing going on when your shooting up a military base with a submachine gun and rocket launcher. nevermind. still a class game.
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2.3.2005

Mercenaries is different to most other war games in that environments are 'fully' destructible. All vehicles are ripe for hijacking and there are a large list of weapons on offer. At least that was what I was led to believe..Though it is claimed to be a free-roaming game, much of the land is laid out in such a way that higher areas are unreachable by foot, motor vehicle or anything that isn't helicopter-like in appearance (and even then I imagine you'd just slide to the road). Another problem - if an environment is fully destructible then shouldn't a rocket blast make some form of mark on the Earth's surface, or is that asking too much? And as for a large array of weapons.. no such luck.There are only a handful of weapons and a lot of them just feel too similar to care about which you useHowever, this game does have a variety of good points. As a game, it is unique in it's genre. It makes a refreshing change to be able to play a 'war' game and not have to follow a linear path, like you would in Medal Of Honour. Despite obvious flaws in the destructibility of much of the environment, the sheer scale of freelance demolition work you can carry out is immense and hugely entertaining. The fact that the game is set slightly in the future with real life factions makes this game seem slightly more entertaining at first (at least that is if you are not of Korean descent).Despite having many flaws, this game is just too much old-fashioned fun to ignore. Story-wise its fairly poor, and the gameplay is pretty repetitive throughout the game if you take it seriously, but if you play it in short bursts and just go into it having fun then it's a joy to behold
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8.4.2005

I've only played this for a short while but I'm really enjoying it so far: I've already captured my first "card" with a set of really exciting set pieces showing my character handcuffing the bad guy, throwing out a smoke grenade and piling him into a helicopter.The great thing about these scenes is that they are using the in-game graphics engine, creating a cinematic experience but completely seamless with the game play!There are faults with this game, but the free roaming and sheer joy of ordering in an air strike makes up for it.The one thing that no-one has mentioned either here or on the many forums/reviews I have seen elsewhere is that the default control scheme cannot be changed AT ALL.Nope not even a choice of 2 or 3 other schemes.This is something really important to a left-hander like me. I've been having to re-think my muscle movements while playing (the auto-aim helps a bit too) but i have to say that despite this I'm enjoying it so much I WANT to learn to be a "righty"!You might argue that different games allow different flexibility with controllers... but come on guys this is Pandemic right? -You know, the guys who did SW:Battlefront? You know, the one where you could define every single button press on the game pad?So if you're a lefty you might want to think twice before you pick this one up. Pandemic: think about it more carefully next time.Okay, 'nuff said. Despite this I still say buy this game: it's just fun, fun, fun!
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5.3.2005

Mercenaries is like a military based GTA with high intensity shoot, drivin, flying and not forgetting the explosions. The game is based in the DMZ (area between south and north korea)1 of the most dangerous places on the face of the planet(a perfect setting). There are 2 free-roaming maps which you treat how you like, Almost anything you can see you can blow up except trees. You chose which factions will be your allies and which you will just be your target practise there are four factions russians, south koreas, allies and the chinese and also the north koreans who are always hostile towards you. The main aim of the game is to eliminate (or subdue, which ever floats your boat)the ace of spades (General Song). To get to him you must get intel from the other 51 cards each one varies in difficulty. All in all the game is not complete without a good few explosion, you would be suprised how much damage one explosion can do. There is a wide range of weapons machine guns, sniper rifles, missile launchers, etc, and vehicles such as choppers, APC's and of course our loyal friend the tank. At the start you get to choose your character, the American, the swede or the Brit each are very similar with only minor differences.This is a definate buy and have fun blowing stuff up
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14.7.2006

MERCENARIESThis game is one of the best I've ever played.Choose from one of 4 characters, and earn money by accepting missions from different factions (ie: locate and destroy the missile launchers), and along the way look out for enemy agents to dispose of, (don't kill the locals!) earning extra cash to buy more weapons and help.Not only are the graphics stunning, the detail extraordinary, the gameplay exciting, but you are not limited to what you can do or where you can go (Ie: i had to destroy a mobile radar jammer but had run out of bombs, so i hijacked it and drove it at speed into the river); blow up anything you want up, control any vehicle you come across (helicopters, tanks, missile launchers,even airport trucks), massive variations of weaponary including satellite controlled bombing, stealth, cluster bombs and so much more.This game is immense and WELL worth the money. I'd have willingly paid full price for this and had value for money. It has a huge landscape filled with detail - get bored, then go exploring (grab a helicopter)!. At later stages you are dropped off (by copter) to other unexplored areas - the game keeps going and going. LONGEVITIY - 5 / PLAYABILITY - 5 / FUN - 5 / GRAPHICS - 5
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23.3.2005

Excellent, from they way you can travel all over the map, shooting, blowing up, causing general chaos to whatever and whoever you should choose was the GTA breakthrough. Being able to do all that in a war zone where the vehicles you can steal can blow up buildings, drive over cars in tanks and get paid for doing it makes this the new kid on the block with a bigger gun.I'm new to the XBox/game station arena and i've not stopped playing this game since i bought it with my new box. The game play is good that missions are short or as long as you wish, allowing you to play for 30mins to keep your need for destruction filled or play for a couple of hours exploring the landscape (i.e.when your girlfriend goes out shopping!!). Most fun thus far has been calling in Stealth airstrikes on enemy faction missile bases. What fun.
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22.2.2005

If you like Grand theft auto, Desert storm and red faction GET THIS!In this game you have freedom of choice, its not linear at all so its up to you how to get the job done. when your out of guns or need a ride call a shop who will give you a choice on what to have, there are also air strikes which are really handy.its like gta because any thing which can move you can drive or fly and gain respect from diffrent military factions like S. korea, the u.n, china and russia.so my little tiny bit of advice BUY IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ONE PROBLEM NO TWO PLAYER!

27.2.2005

The aim of this game is to make money and buy equipment. To do this, you have to kill or capture your enemies represented by 52 playing cards. You can choose the United Nations, the U.S. Coalition, China, or the Russian Mafia, as you employers, but players decide how to carry out the missions. With more than 30 weapons and 20 vehicles (cars and trucks, planes, helicopters, and tanks) you have to choose carefully which equipment best suits the mission and tactics you refer to use. Mercenaries features multiple endings. The conclusion depends on decisions made by you during the missions.Well worth the money. Buy it.

3.9.2011

OMG this game is so much fun. Yes I could pour out a long list of annoyances but why would I want to? This game is just so much fun. I'm currently playing through for the third time in a row!Yes it's repetitive, yes the AI skip around like they have ants in their pants, yes you can't skip the FMV, yes you have to wait for the team to show you a choice of weaponary etc at the start of each mission each time you play it, yes those helicopters are annoying but who cares its just great.Nuff said.

21.2.2005

this game is massive i have been playin all weekend and cant stop,the graphics are great and the amount of weapons/vehicles are huge.this game is totally addictive,based very loosely on gta as u can go anywhere u want, take any mission u want.i highly reconmend this game .

10.4.2014

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18.5.2005

i have played the demo of this game and it i really good there is so much stuff to do like fly choppers and drive tanks, jeeps everything! The best is to call in the big bombs to blow lodes of stuff up.

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