Hella fun. Spend 10min with the game and try to disagree
Finally. This game delivers on all the promises any star wars, gta, or even stealth titles ever enticed us with. Mercenaries is an engrossing world at war that you don't play so much as experience. If you can see it, the odds are you can get there. The struggle is epic, and you really get a sense of being either all alone against the world or at times, part of a great faction.
Mercenaries controls much like i/o's freedom fighters but better. The graphics are adequate, but the real genius is in how much can be going on at once. It's absolutely disorienting, but so cool!
The worldmap is beyond expansive, eclipsed only by the magnanimous beauty that is gta: san andreas. you can drive anything you come across. you can fly six different types of choppers, 8 kinds of tanks and anything ever foreseen on four wheels. you can swim anywhere (((but only if you turn on the invicibility cheat))) otherwise water apparently kills you.
it's also of particular note that pandemic built the engine very similar to the uber popular battlefront engine from star wars. if you're familar with that combat you'll love it here. the a.i. could use use a remedial course at the community college, but enmasse is a very dangerous threat to behold.
as a bounty hunter you have to collect all the cards in the deck of 52. sound familar? yeah, thanx g.w. yutz. the strategy is open ended in that if you take prisoners alive you get dbl the money than if you bring in a corpse. and with the cost of some of the more spectacular air strikes bringing them in alive becomes a priority fast.
You should be able to find this used around 25$, go and grab it before it dissappears like so many other underappreciated masterpieces.
