Released: 2005
Difficulty: Hard
Time Spent: 20 to 40 Hours
Headline: You'll Damn Love This!!!
North Korea's greatest army leader is already on his way towards taking down countries with a hell-of-a lot of nukes. You select one of three mercenaries: a sly British-Chinese female, a strong African-American male, or a fast, Macho driven Swedish fellow. You are dropped into the heart of North Korea with already settled armies; Chinese, South Korean, Russian, or American. All of you are out to stop the North Korean army; but in order to get there, you have to gather Intel so that you can go on the big takedown missions where especially important enemies are active.
Introduction Mission to Mercenaries
You can order air strikes and deliveries to get what you need to get the done job done. It may be blowing up every building in a designated area, aiding in a firefight, eliminating important people, retrieving something valuable, or perhaps something personal. Mercenaries has a lot of weapons and much more to use it on, 50 + vehicles, and many buildings, enemies, and landmarks. There is a great amount of choice to accompany the journey. It really has the freedom to carve your own path of a game to achieve the same ultimate goal (even going against factions). It is also quite easy to navigate with the exception of somewhat slippery vehicle control.
The game is filled with appropriate scenery and the frame rate always manages to keep up with the action even when it’s raining all sorts of bombs (which there are many unique kinds and they are great). The texture work is also solid; I just wish that the colour pallet wasn't as grayish. The vocals are definitely strong as everyone speaks their native accent and language though, the dialogue’s audio can sometimes completely miss it cue. The music drives home on a good set of Asian instruments but the weapons could give a bit more strength as they just feel standard.
Hey I’m not the target!
Mercenaries is a good 20 hour game that you could spend an extra 20 hours with all the additional challenges and exploration of the well captured world. The window is also open for replay as the missions could go a very different direction with another character. It all comes together so well that it seems like the whole 2 maps are big huge set pieces, ready to go to. This game always managed to find a special place in my heart because out there, it’s always wartime!
9.0/ 10 SUPERB (PS2)
+Freedom to conquer your way
+Lots of ways to ‘erase’ most anything
+Large amounts of content
+Looks like North Korea and fine acting
-Vehicle control is limited to being wild
TWiSTEDmerc
Difficulty: Hard
Time Spent: 20 to 40 Hours
Headline: You'll Damn Love This!!!
North Korea's greatest army leader is already on his way towards taking down countries with a hell-of-a lot of nukes. You select one of three mercenaries: a sly British-Chinese female, a strong African-American male, or a fast, Macho driven Swedish fellow. You are dropped into the heart of North Korea with already settled armies; Chinese, South Korean, Russian, or American. All of you are out to stop the North Korean army; but in order to get there, you have to gather Intel so that you can go on the big takedown missions where especially important enemies are active.
Introduction Mission to Mercenaries
You can order air strikes and deliveries to get what you need to get the done job done. It may be blowing up every building in a designated area, aiding in a firefight, eliminating important people, retrieving something valuable, or perhaps something personal. Mercenaries has a lot of weapons and much more to use it on, 50 + vehicles, and many buildings, enemies, and landmarks. There is a great amount of choice to accompany the journey. It really has the freedom to carve your own path of a game to achieve the same ultimate goal (even going against factions). It is also quite easy to navigate with the exception of somewhat slippery vehicle control.
The game is filled with appropriate scenery and the frame rate always manages to keep up with the action even when it’s raining all sorts of bombs (which there are many unique kinds and they are great). The texture work is also solid; I just wish that the colour pallet wasn't as grayish. The vocals are definitely strong as everyone speaks their native accent and language though, the dialogue’s audio can sometimes completely miss it cue. The music drives home on a good set of Asian instruments but the weapons could give a bit more strength as they just feel standard.
Hey I’m not the target!
Mercenaries is a good 20 hour game that you could spend an extra 20 hours with all the additional challenges and exploration of the well captured world. The window is also open for replay as the missions could go a very different direction with another character. It all comes together so well that it seems like the whole 2 maps are big huge set pieces, ready to go to. This game always managed to find a special place in my heart because out there, it’s always wartime!
9.0/ 10 SUPERB (PS2)
+Freedom to conquer your way
+Lots of ways to ‘erase’ most anything
+Large amounts of content
+Looks like North Korea and fine acting
-Vehicle control is limited to being wild
TWiSTEDmerc
