Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames is a video game that consists of 10 releases
Reviewed on Sept. 5, 2008
The awesome destructive potential of Mercs 2 is hamstrung by a litany of technical shortcomings and clunky design.
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The follow-up to LucasArts' Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction, takes these guns-for-hire to Venezuela. This sequel introduces drop-in, drop-out online co-op with the availability to play through the entire single player campaign with a friend. Complete with trophy support.
Overview
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames is the sequel to 2005's Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction, and is being developed by Pandemic Studios and published by Electronic Arts. The game was released in North America on August 31, 2008 on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC and PS2. Featuring the first game's propensity for explosions with a design mantra proclaiming that "If an object can't be destroyed in the game world, it doesn't go in the game", Mercs 2 had players once again take control of three gun happy, RPG toting Mercs as they lay waste across a fictional Venezuela. The game was released to mixed critical reception, mostly due to some prominent bugs, odd control choices, shallow design,including the fact that these bugs were still present, even after the fact that the game was delayed numerous times, plus the final product was extremely similar to the previous game.Story
This game takes place in Venezuela where the player, one of three Mercenaries available at the start of the game, is hired for by the local drug lord Ramon Solano to free a captive VZ general. After Solano's coup puts him in control of Venezuela and its oil supply, he betrays the mercenaries; refusing to pay the bill for the job, Solano shoots the player in the rear( which the game will gleefully point out throughout the rest of the game) . Now that Solano is in control of vast oil reserves, the Allied Nations, China's PLA, the Rastafarian Pirates, the VZ Rebels and the Universal Petroleum Corporation's private army have entrenched themselves in Venezuela in a bid to wrestle control its oil. Now the mercenaries must decide who to ally themselves with and where to tip the balance of power. Players will be able to take missions from the five different organizations as they recover funds and information necessary to take Solano down. You use a nuclear-bunker buster at the end of the game to break into Solano's bunker where you pursue him through a hangar until he jumps into a helicopter, you jump in with him and fight with him through a quicktime event while the helicopter stumbles around the inside of the bunker due to the pilots loss of control. You defeat Solano, return to the Merc HQ, and watch a cutscene involving all the mercs and your field advisor Fiona. She suggest Africa as a new place for the Mercs to pursue jobs,and the game ends on this cliffhanger, suggesting a sequel even though no such thing has been announced formally yet.Gameplay
Things go BOOM!
You also recruit your own PMC company, similar to the other factions in the game, to take care of things such as airstrikes, and dropping of weapon caches since the merchant of menace is not available because the Russian-Mafia faction is not present in this game. You can hire a helicopter pilot, and a jet pilot. These Mercs give the player unique abilities such as the ability to call in air strikes,which is a hallmark of the Mercenaries franchise. Vehicle repair, or medical helicopter evacutaion, are other abilities that can be made available in addition to calling in airstrikes. Destruction is no longer a singular activity. Mercs 2 will feature online co-op action, any person on your friends list (with the game, naturally) will be able to join in on the chaos with a click of a button.
Controversy
Bono, Help Venezuela!
In 2009, the Hugo Chavez -led Nationa Assembly officially banned the sale of "violent" video games, with up to a five year prison sentence for selling these games. Many people see this move as a response to this game. Chavez also banned toy guns as well. Chaves said that video games promote "egotism, individualism and violence", and as a result must be banned.
System Requirements
Minimum System Requirements (Windows Vista)
Processor: Pentium 4 with Hyperthreading/AMD Athlon 64 X2
Memory: 2 GB
Hard Drive: 10 GB Free
Video Memory: 256 MB with Shader Model 3.0 (nVidia GeForce 6800 GT/ATI Radeon X1600)
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c Compatible
DirectX: 10
Keyboard & Mouse
DVD Rom Drive (8X)
Internet Connection
Minimum System Requirements (Windows XP)
Processor: Pentium 4 with Hyperthreading/AMD Athlon 64 X2
Memory: 1 GB
Hard Drive: 10 GB Free
Video Memory: 256 MB with Shader Model 3.0 (nVidia GeForce 6800 GT/ATI Radeon X1600)
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c Compatible
DirectX: 9.0c
Keyboard & Mouse
DVD Rom Drive (8X)
Internet Connection
Recommended System Requirements
OS: Windows XP/Vista
Processor: Intel Core 2 DUO @ 2.66 GHz/AMD X2 4600 2.4 GHz
Memory: 2 GB
Hard Drive: 10 GB Free
Video Memory: 512 MB with Shader Model 3.0 (nVidia GeForce 6800/ATI Radeon HD 2600)
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c Compatible
DirectX: 9.0c
Keyboard & Mouse
DVD Rom Drive (8X)
Internet Connection
Xbox 360 Game Installation
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames requires 6.7GB of space to install on an Xbox 360 HDD.
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PEGI: 16+
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