Mercenaries

[seinfeldrules]

This game looks kickass

http://xbox.gamespy.com/xbox/mercenaries/578386p1.html

*five out of five stars*

The real strength of the game, however, lies in the sheer amount of carnage and destruction you can cause. Just about anything in the game can be shot, blown up, or knocked down employing a wide range of methods. For instance, if you want to knock down a building, you can plant C4 around the base, blast it down with a tank or, most satisfying of all, call in one of the game's awesome airstrikes, which can be ordered from the Russian mafia's website, The Merchant of Menace. Once you call one in, paint your target using either a laser sight, satellite view, or a colored smoke grenade, then run for cover. The artillery will rain down from the sky, destroying anything in its path. While the early strikes are certainly cool, the later ones (such as the uber-powerful Carpet Bomb) are simply awesome.

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Graphically, Mercenaries is one of the best games to hit the Xbox in recent memory. Although most of the country is drab and gray, everything looks nice thanks to some impressive (yet not overwhelming) bloom effects. Everything runs at a smooth 60 frames per second, so there's no slowdown, even during the most frenetic firefights. All of the character models look and move like their real-life counterparts, too, particularly the main characters. Most impressive, however, is the particle effects. I've never seen smoke or dust that behaves so realistically, and your jaw will drop the first time a building crumbles around you, enveloping you in a cloud of dust and debris.

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Basically, if you're a fan of destroying everything you see, Mercenaries is the game for you. However, it offers much more than that. Playing the factions against each other requires a bit of strategy, as does completing the missions. I can't remember the last time I played a game in which I wondered whether something could be done, and nine times out of ten it actually could be, whether it's calling in an airstrike on a lone soldier or jacking a helicopter from the sky. Blowing stuff up has never been this fun, or this satisfying.

 

[bliink]

Pity its on.. Xbox

maybe it will come to pc...

 

[Neutrino]

Pity its on.. Xbox

maybe it will come to pc...

My sentiments exactly.

 

[seinfeldrules]

Ah, but also on PS2.

 

[bliink]

Ah, but also on PS2.

I know.. but I hate my ps2 now, its all... yucky graphics wise, it's aged alot, doesnt look as good as xbox, and xbox looks junk compared to a PC...

why do the gods of games smite me so?!! :rolling:

 

[qckbeam]

I was sort of turned off to this game by the really, really, really cheesy television ad's for it. Maybe it's worth a second look.

 

[bigpapa400lb]

I've played the demo 20 times and it never gets boring

 

[destrukt]

Can you really destroy virtually anything or is it limited like in evey other game where you can destroy virtually everything ? except for red faction of course.

 

[Kid A]

I was sort of turned off to this game by the really, really, really cheesy television ad's for it. Maybe it's worth a second look.

That's what I thought. They even made my father laugh.

 

[Gargantou]

The game whopps ass, don't mind the commercial, I've played the demo and I'll be recieving my import of the US PS2 version asap, the dev team of Mercenaries is amazing also, I got, through a single email, a large convo with the games director, Cameron Brown, and the team were nice enough to send me a copy of the US demo back in Dec(Before the EU one) from the US totally free(No, no postal charges, no anything), the only that's a turn off for me is the Swede, he looks so stupid, not at all like I'd imagine a military Swede
I know why they put in a Swede tho, the coding team is partly composed of Swedes heh.
Anyway, for me, this is a total MUST BUY.

How can you not like a game where you can destroy almost "everything" with HAVOK PHYSICS?!:O

 

[Axyon]

38 days until it's released in the UK. I believe I'll pick it up.

 

[Asknoone]

I am definatley getting it, looks ace

 

[DarkStar]

This one looks interesting. Sorta came out of nowhere for me, didn't know much about it until like two weeks ago.

 

[^Ben]

If it comes out for PC, this is a must have for me.

 

[<RJMC>]

since a short time I was a bit interesed but from what I see looks like worth it

 

[Raziaar]

I only saw this advertised on TV recently. Are there any official plans for it to come out on PC?

 

[TwwIX]

This is basically what the "Soldner" game should've been.
Straaaange..."Soldner" is the german word for Mercenary and these games are practically identical.Makes you think eh?
Well, there is one exception.Soldner sucks and this doesn't.
It's a shame that it's only out on consoles though.

 

[Raziaar]

From watching the videos, i'm kind of dissapointed in how the buildings collapse. Smaller buildings like that wouldn't cave in straight down on themselves like a skyscraper would, not necesarrily anyways. It'd be neat if they took the time to split them up into numerous breakable sections so they could topple in different ways depending on what stress fractures were hit and how hard.