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Added by Ryan on Oct. 31, 2008 79 comments
As if today wasn't already scary enough, EA has revealed that there's an update in the works for Mercenaries 2: World in Flames that will feature Governor Sarah Palin and Senator Barack Obama as playable characters. Here's a trailer showing the two candidates in action, courtesy of G4.

  


I'm all for a little political fun-poking, but my concerns about this are two-fold. For one, we've got less than a week before the polls close, so Pandemic doesn't have much time before this whole fleeting undertaking becomes completely irrelevant. Secondly, Mercenaries 2 gets away with a pretty unflattering take on modern Venezuela by not taking itself too seriously, but there's something a little unnerving about watching these potential leaders of the free world blowing up oil rigs in a country with whom the US has got some pretty tenuous relations.
80 Comments

Thordain is online
on Oct. 31, 2008
Thats gonna be crazy

TooWalrus
on Oct. 31, 2008
And they said Merc's 2 was a bad game.

Alphazero
on Oct. 31, 2008
That's no game, man. That's real archival footage.

Fr0Br0
on Oct. 31, 2008
How the hell did Pandemic even get Obama and Palin to agree to let themselves appear in a game that promotes violence?

DarkPants
on Oct. 31, 2008
holy shit that's awesome

dQuarters
on Oct. 31, 2008
Ah, you zany Americans. At least you got a healthy sense of humour about how ridiculous you can be.
Good on ya!

BawaTheGamer
on Oct. 31, 2008
thats weird

floodiastus
on Oct. 31, 2008
So is McCain to old to be in the game?

MagicKiwi
on Oct. 31, 2008
Obama is a terrorist! I KNEW IT!

zoozilla
on Oct. 31, 2008
I think I saw a terrorist fist bump.

natural_deadhead is online
on Oct. 31, 2008
Super Obama

Endogene
on Oct. 31, 2008
Enven though this is pretty neat i can see this going very very sour with the media.

HatKing
on Oct. 31, 2008
Something so very disturbing about this...I think I would get a kick out of watching McCain kill people with his bare hands but these two choices don't seem right.  Ugh...I hate it...keep my video games and my politics seperate.  It is like sex and food...I like them both but they never EVER should meet.

Woodtsunami
on Oct. 31, 2008
Yay and remember to vote Obama! (Because as this game proves he does have militiary experience!) :)

No really people just vote for Obama ok?

TooWalrus
on Oct. 31, 2008
McCain did enough killing in Nam. Give the hockey mom a chance.

Brontes_Muse
on Oct. 31, 2008
I think it looks fun

LordAndrew
on Oct. 31, 2008
Does McCain make an appearance as a prisoner of war?

English
on Oct. 31, 2008
Oh god that is absolutely hilarious. Watching palin take out a helicopter pilot is pure gold.

Neurogamer
on Oct. 31, 2008
LOL! Is this even legal?!?

Afroman269
on Oct. 31, 2008
Lol McCain was denied because no one wants to play as a senior citizen like terrorist.



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