what do you do with problems? you blow it up!
Mercenaries experience portraits the same situations and problems that other games face when coming out with a squeal to the original series of the game. With its inspired to cause destruction to anything in the world and the high selection of the weapons this game brings alot of hype to its name. But with all the destruction and weapons enough to carry this game to the best hit side lines or will it face what other original series squeal games did in past history. The answer is simple it can but theres only so much limits that it can reach before crashing and burning with the last squeal games in the past.
mercenaries takes the same formula from the original game to its squeal with a much interesting story, basically you have three mercenaries that you as the player can choose one each of them have their own abilies which may help during a gun fight. There's the sweden name Mattias Nilson that can heal faster rate, christopher jacobs can carried extra ammo for weapons, and theirs the girl jennifer mui she just can run faster. The story begins in venezuela where your character the mercenaries is hired by salano to rescuse general carmona which is being held by the venexuela army. soon after that mission thats where the chaos begins, after rescueing his friend from being held salano trys to be cheap and attempt to kill your character but fails. The mercenarie mind is set on revanges after being betraded by the person that hired him, now he travels around many area of Venezuela working with many fractions in the game china,AN, rebels, pirates and the Venezuela army doing number of task which usually involved blowing up buildings,getting a target, and taking another outpost from another fraction that already have it. Of course working with one of the fractions will be your friendly down with the another one which is not different from other games that try to bring this feature to it. But after you do all these task you get large number of weapons and air support that should help you among the way for your main mission. Unlike the first Mercenaries game you doesn't work alone this time you have friends that would help you along doing these task, either by traveling to another area or air bombing a certain part of the map !
Mercenaires interesting storyline and extension to travel anywhere in the map would attract anyone to this game and enjoy the mass destruction set by the player, but it would also bring its unattractive side along with it. Mercenaries seem like a unfinished game that's full with glitches and AI problems which can be frustrated with the player that is trying to complete a mission or get an achievement for a certain fraction. The glitches is everywhere! when you travel around you get a spare part even when your not close to any of them leavening you with a large amount of number then it suppose to be, another fine example the enemies would not fire at you they would let you run up to them and hit them with your gun or shoot them which is not even challenging at all when they just sit or stand there. The AI i only found some problems with them like there were times when the helicopter lands on a tree or a car, or when the a person on the street would run away towards the direction where your drive and hit them losing money.
Mercenaries gameplay can easily be master by anyone when playing this game for the first time, but there are times when the game play can be irresponsibly and can be frustrated for a player at times. Usually when i find the gameplay to be kind of unresponsible at time is during a hijack of car like helicopters and tanks. which would lead to a mini game that has a certain botton to press at the right time but sometimes when you press the right button it doesn't work and leads to your death of other enemies gun fire from all around. Don't get me wrong i like the idea of hijacking anything but there are time when you need to when escaping from someone or a from certain death. The graphic is ok but not next gen protenal, some textures problems issues, the frame rate surprisingly holds well under the horrible condition. The voice acting is pretty well done no problem there but the lines repeat over and over again which can be annoying and distracted when doing something in the game.
Mercenaries fell short from my expectation from what iv seen so far, it seems that it gotten itself into the same kind of trap that other original series has fallen into. With its glitches graphics and sometimes questionable game play control response it almost makes it unplayable. It had the potential to be a good solid game with its ideals and presention of the story to keep me interested but that wasn't enough to keep myself from playing such a broken game. Hopefully a a patch will be made to make this reasonable to play.
