The game sucks hardcore in singleplayer but it is one of the most fun, and stable, multiplayer experiences I have ever played.

blindside:

i don't doubt that the missions and gameplay gradually get better and better..i'm just worried that once i've done all the contracts and collected most of what's out there, i'm left with a large, barely populated map of dumb npc's...just like the first one.

in the first mercs, when it was all said and done, i'd just jump around looking for those spawn points where tiny skirmishes would break out, so i'd have some shit to blow up..it got old real fast.



tazar:

i was playing it single player last night and this morning and i find it to be just as enjoyable as the first mercs..though with a buddy, it really is 2x the fun. smooth as a baby's ass too, i'll agree.

i really wish the AI was better for the guys you can roll with. like, when you honk the horn and dudes pile in to your jeep or whatever..it's just lame. if only it could be more like "freedom fighters" or something. they're so fucking dumb that within a minute into getting out of the vehicle, they die.

I found the game opened up some in the second half.

I've beat the main story once. I loved the game. Sure its a bit repetitive, but most sand box games are. Did you play crackdown? that game had one mission type.

As you get farther in the game more and stronger enemies appear and you get access to better weapons and bombs.

I reviewed it and gave it an 8/10. Its mindless, but a ton a fun.

Yeah, the gane can be fun but I can't say its $64.38 worth of fun.

I think the original handeled contracts better with the deck of 52. Each of the 52 had a little blurb about them and you had to actually explore Korea to discover their locations. Mercs 2 not so much. Each HVT is interchangable with the next, their locations are plotted out on the map and even the HVT encounters are interchangable since they are all set up exactly the same.

I don't understand some of that changes to the mercs formula. Like why can't I move while having an airstrike beacon equiped like I could in the original? It baffles me. The AI they didn't even bother with. However, the AI has been "upgraded" to see through wall and other objects so stealth isn't an option. And why the hell does eveyone in Velenzuela speak English? In Mercs 1 Koreans spoke Korean - Russians spoke Russian or at least something that sounded close enough to fool me. The dialog in Mercs 1 could have been gibberish but it wasn't in English so it didn't get as annoying hearing the same lines over, and over, an over, and over.

I think Pandemic is talented dev but you wouldn't know it from this game. It seems like they dialed this one in. Mercs was on of my top 5 games last gen. It was a great game that deserved a better sequel.

Despite that I think the game will sell well and Pandemic/EA will use the argument that it sold a million copies so obviously most folks didn't find issue with it or some other half-baked argument like that.

Oh well..you fooled me once Pandemic.

The game is really fun, but not very good. And that's ok, I'm enjoying it.

I traded mine for Soul Calibur IV after a week, yea the map gets bigger but there's not much there other than HVT's and buildings, hell if you did just the story missions, you could finish the game in like 5 hours, the repetitive phrases everyone spews doesn't help either and I haven't even gotten into the numerous bugs and glitches this game has.

Very dissapointed.

I fought an entire group of enemies that where all floating in mid-air, I couldn't even get the money and bombs they had since they where on some invisible platform.

See also: broken physics, glitches, shitty graphics and carbon-copy character plots.

Fuck this game.

Fuck it.