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HotFezz8

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mercenaries playground of destruction, one of my favorite games, but hte problem is i have two copies (for the xbox) and neither work for long on my 360, is it a problem with my console? (i.e. do i need a upgrade of some kind?) or is it a problem with the games?
 

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They don't work for long? So the game starts up but then it crashes? If you needed a game update it wouldn't play the game at all, it sounds like the discs are scratched.
 

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I've rented a few old copies of Mercenaries, since it was one of my favorite original Xbox games, and all of them had problems with freezing at unusually terrible moments. So I guess they just don't work well after a while.
 

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Geekosaurus said:
They don't work for long? So the game starts up but then it crashes? If you needed a game update it wouldn't play the game at all, it sounds like the discs are scratched.
no, disk is fine... :-(
 

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I don't have a 360 but I know from friends that the 360 has problems playing several Xbox games that are "supported."

Yes, Mercenaries is a great game. IMO, it's the best sandbox game ever. Mercenaries evolved the sandbox genre when it was getting stale, and no sandbox game has matched it yet. Rockstar keeps churning out stale sandbox games.
 

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Phoenixmgs said:
I don't have a 360 but I know from friends that the 360 has problems playing several Xbox games that are "supported."

Yes, Mercenaries is a great game. IMO, it's the best sandbox game ever. Mercenaries evolved the sandbox genre when it was getting stale, and no sandbox game has matched it yet. Rockstar keeps churning out stale sandbox games.
a)dammit. and when the hell will conflict desert storm 2 and vietnam be "supported"??

b) yeah mercenaries was a great sandbox, but i think its the vehicle combat wher it shines, and still, to a extent, does. mercenaries 2 wasn't as good becuase the graphics became too comicy...
 

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HotFezz8 said:
b) yeah mercenaries was a great sandbox, but i think its the vehicle combat wher it shines, and still, to a extent, does. mercenaries 2 wasn't as good becuase the graphics became too comicy...
I bought Mercenaries 2 and hated it. I loved in the first game you can buy anything from the store anytime anywhere. If I wanted something one faction had, I had to go there to buy it. On the whole, I just think the mission quality in Mercenaries 2 was a lot worse. In the first game, each mission seemed like a small section of a linear game where enemy placement is taken into consideration. And, in the first game, there were so many ways to do each mission; I loved finding ways to do each mission without pissing off the faction. Mercenaries seemed like it was composed of pieces from a linear game put on a big map whereas most sandbox games (like GTA) create the map/sandbox first then start making the missions, and mission quality takes a huge hit.