Comments on: Games for 2008: Mercenaries 2: World In Flames

By: Quinnbeast

Quinnbeast — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:47:20 +0000

I’m really looking forward to the new Starfield: Battle Wars game.

By: Fumarole

Fumarole — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:38:40 +0000

Have you guys gotten around to playing this yet? I’m on the fence about buying it.

By: Lord Of The Rings: Conquest | Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Lord Of The Rings: Conquest | Rock, Paper, Shotgun — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:49:00 +0000

[...] details and screens after the jump. Pandemic, who are also hard at work on the excellent-looking Mercenaries 2, will be in charge of turning LOTR into a multiplayer battle game, and therefore face the eternal [...]

By: JakethePirate

JakethePirate — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:21:23 +0000

I’d just like to say those people are very ugly. Otherwise, asplosions are good I suppose.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:09:59 +0000

RPS: Turning incompetence into comedy since 1997.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:06:42 +0000

The Battlefield/front/zone ones added to the article, I feel. Well, only because you left them there all crossed out, but still, made it more entertaining.

Or maybe I’m just strange.

I wonder how many games there have been with a Battlexxxx title.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:04:26 +0000

No worries, man. Just there are errors and errrors, if you see what I mean.

By: Lacero

Lacero — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:46:17 +0000

KG: oops, sorry! I got carried away by the heady atmosphere of correction.

By: realmenhuntinpacks

realmenhuntinpacks — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:33:52 +0000

i enjoyed the first one, but it had this weird lonely feel to it. Seemed a bit empty. Atmospheric issues.

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:24:47 +0000

There really wasn’t a whole lot of plot in Mercenaries, no. I felt this was more than made up for by the gameplay, but you may feel differently.

By: Mouj

Mouj — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:00:11 +0000

Battlezone was sure something fun; indeed a little special and not that easy to pick up, but i was loving it’s immersive ambiance and gameplay..

By: Man Raised By Puffins

Man Raised By Puffins — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:32:05 +0000

I kind of put myself off Mercenaries by watching the early WIP, which had awful pop-up and some twitchy scenery destruction. It’s also not helped by there not apearing to be much in the way of narrative; just having ’splodes isn’t really enough for me in these large sand-box games. Crackdown just about got away with it by allowing you to scale the heights, but it was always let down by the plot being tissue-thin to non-existent and missions being simply “go here, kill this guy”.

Hopefully there’s a demo I can have a crack at to see if I’m not writing it off too much, but I have a feeling my sandbox needs will be amply catered for by GTA4.

Note to developers; Think up more game names. I’m useless.

To be fair I had to wiki Pandemic (who will now forever remind of ‘The Wire’ each time I hear their name) to find the name, I know the game but I just drew a complete blank as to what it was called.