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Mercenaries 2: World in Flames (PS2) | 
| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: £29.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 741
Platform: Playstation2
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Playstation 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5030930059040
ASIN: B000RO0P9K
Release Date: September 5, 2008
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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
If there really isn't any such thing as bad publicity then Mercenaries 2 is already doing superbly. It certainly already has its fair share of infamy, after being denounced by the Venezuelan government as propaganda for the U.S. Army and even dragging Bono (who part owns developer Pandemic) into a row over its probity. Mind you North Korea weren't too keen about the first game either and that turned out all right. The reason poor Bono's name has been dragged into the dirt is that the game's plot revolves around a U.S. led invasion of Venezuela after a dictator takes control in a coup. It's pretty hard to get offended about a game as gleefully silly as this though as its interests are clearly not politics but simply blowing things up as creatively as possible. As before you're dropped into the war zone and free to ply your mercenary trade with whomever you want. However, this time you're in charge of your own PMC (Private Military Company) and get to set up your own base and recruit your own soldiers. Owning your own PMC gives you a lot more control over how exactly you play the game in what is essentially Grand Theft Auto in a warzone. Everything you see can be completely destroyed from innocuous shrubbery to be the biggest buildings. You can now swim as well and there's lot more vehicles and gadgets, from helicopters to grappling hooks. With an online co-op mode as well even Hugo Chavez couldn't fail to be entertained (maybe).
Harrison Dent
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 Close but no cigar November 13, 2008
After enjoying the original for an unhealthily long time, I couldn't wait to get my hands on this. Worryingly I am online after playing for only one evening, trying to find out if there's any way to pass one of the early missions (yes, Ewen's helicopter). The changes to the gameplay are a little alienating, but the real problem is the playability. Perhaps dumbing down the PS3 version of the game for the PS2 is the problem, but I struggle to believe some of the missions were even tested by the creators! Overall, I struggle to give this game a "fair" rating, but that may be due to disappointment after the "Grand Theft Auto Goes to War" brilliance of the original. Buy second-hand, enjoy, then swear at it, then pass it on. Mine'll be on ebay this weekend if I can't crack this ludicrously impossible mission tonight- and I played the original for over two years. Anyone who remembers the later "Medal of Honor" sequels will understand what I'm talking about...
 Beware... September 17, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was a huge fan of the original Mercenaries, and had big hopes for this sequel. When I heard it was coming out on PS2, I was delighted.
However, this is a big letdown. If anyone remembers the cheap and nasty ports of PC games onto consoles in the late 90s and early 2000s (Carmageddon, Doom, Quake and so on...) you'll remember 'the fog'. It's a horrible shortcut for when developers are having problems with draw distance - everything above close range disappears into a thick fog, meaning that enemies can be shooting at you, yet you can't see them. Vehicles and buildings will suddenly appear out of the middle distance, leaving you with next to no time to react. This is how the PS2 version feels. I can't comment on the PS3 or X360 versions, as I've not played them, but the PS2 version feels distinctly cheap.
Onto gameplay, and the AI is at times, awful. Enemies will stand by blindly while you shoot at them from full view ten metres away. The mindless destruction element is good fun, but quickly evaporates when you realise that most enemies couldn't hit a barn door with a sniper rifle from ten paces away. The missions switch between annoyingly simple and virtually impossible. You do several 'errand boy' missions, and then are given a lengthy mission that borders on the impossible, often due to the poor graphics/gameplay mechanics. The very best example of this is the early mission where you meet Ewan and fly the Helicopter back - it's just too difficult to pick out the enemies amongst the trees and fog and with the terribly slow aiming, and only about 5 missile hits to play with, simply too hard.
Despite all this, there are genuinely good moments to be had in this game, and the reworked method of hijacking of vehicles is a nice touch that makes things feel a lot more cinematic, but overall this game looks and feels like a cheap cash-in job rather than a game that was designed with the PS2 in mind.
At 25-30, this is too expensive. Wait for people to sell this on, and pick it up second hand for 15.
 Blow stuff up September 15, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is not a complicated game. It can be described in the 3 words that head this review. Yes, glitches and dodgy gameplay in places does spoil it a bit, but really, this is how any review can be broken down:
If you like blowing stuff up mindlessly, you will like this game and not mind the glitches.
If you like to think about games, and prefer tactics and puzzles to all-out action, you will not like this game and the glitches will really annoy you.
 everybody pays or suim like dat September 2, 2008
3 out of 13 found this review helpful
havent actually played the full game but just a demo.......man its SICK much better than the last one,bigger,harder and more xplosives and even better that they brought it out on PS2,cant wait to get this on friday.ha
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