The game had the working title of Mercenaries 3: No Limits and was still in the early stages of development when Pandemic was closed up. That explains why things look a little rough; it was a showreel displaying the game’s new concepts, not a shiny trailer designed for public consumption.
Nevertheless, with the one-year anniversary of Pandemic’s demise upon us, now is as good a time as ever for us to see could have been, had the game not been binned along with the studio that created it.
Super Hugger
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 at 11:10 AMKotaku should start a series called, “What Could Have Been?”
There’s heaps of resources here in Australia.
masha
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 at 1:22 PMI think this is a great idea. Mark please implement this and maybe include developer quotes, vidoes and concept art if possible.
AdamD
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 at 4:20 PMThis is a great place to seen cancelled or even pre release versions of games:
http://www.unseen64.net/
DannyC
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 at 12:56 PMMercenaries was one of my most favorite games on the PS2, i must have played it 3 times to the finish with all the characters
When Mercenaries 2 came out on the PS3 i was saddened by how rubbish it was. One part i remember being annoyed at was trying to shoot down a helicopter with a stinger missile and having it destroy the tower i was standing on and crumbling to my death >:(
Luckily Just Cause 2 came out and was exactly what i was looking for out of that genre.
Kinda glad that a third game was not released.
Jon Polti
Thursday, November 18, 2010 at 12:19 PMI dug the Mercs 1 game, but as Danny said, the sequel was a bit rubbish. I really, really wanna see more from Mattias Nilsson, one of my fav game characters ever!
Sad that there will be no more of this once great franchise.