The weekend. ‘Skins v Eagles. Washington are up 10-3, and in the final seconds of the game, Eagles receiver Reggie Brown takes what should be the game-winning catch…but is stuffed at the 1.
Poor Mercenaries 2. All those explosions, all those moustaches, and nobody cared! Well, maybe you’ll care now, with the release of the game’s first major downloadable content.
And if John Riccitiello has say in the matter Mercenaries 10 will be coming to the next-next-next gen platform of your choosing. Responding on today’s earnings conference call to a question if some EA’s recent releases would be “sequelable,” Riccitiello unsurprisingly said “Yes.” Mercenaries 2: World in Flames has sold 1.9 million copies for the company, making the third entry — and probably even the tenth — a bottom line no-brainer. At least EA’s mercs have job security…
Yes, yes I know – the game is already out, but that doesn’t mean we can’t sit back, relax, and enjoy all of the adrenaline packed mayhem this video provides. You want gravity defying vehicles with tons of explosions? you got it! I haven’t gotten a chance to pick up the game myself, but there’s something tearing deep in my soul demanding that I give it a try. How’s everyone enjoying Mercenaries 2 so far?
Sure, Mercenaries 2 is already out, but you might be the hesitant type. Not the type to trust reviews written by others, more the type to trust impressions of your own. If that’s you, and you’ve got an Xbox 360, get downloading, because a Mercenaries 2 demo should be up on Xbox Live as you read this. If you’re a PS3 owner, you’re stuck with the console’s weekly cycles, and have to wait for next Thursday’s bulk update.
I haven’t received a copy of Mercenaries 2 yet on any platform, so I can’t really comment, but reader Desi is less than pleased with his purchase for the PC version. He makes it sound like an abortion on DVD (urgh): I cannot help but be wroth beyond measure. The PC version is a port of the PS2 version (couldn’t even give us 360-level graphics) so it has awful graphics; you can’t turn autoaim off, so you can never hit moving enemies; and there’s a catastrophic bug that makes the game freeze when it tries to play a movie — which is literally within the first second of starting up, when it tries to play the EA logo movie.
The only way to get it to play is to rename the movies folder, so that you play with no cutscenes and therefore zero exposition.
IGN didn’t think it was too bad, but I’m reluctant to use a single review as a yardstick. Maybe Desi’s PC just doesn’t like him, or the frustration’s making his eyes bleed. Regardless, let us know if you’re having similar issues.
The video gaming content of this clip gives me an excuse to throw this up. It’s an EA game, it’s a current game, it’s a reasonably high-profile game. But really, I’m just enjoying the fact it gives me a chance to post a clip of Peter Stormare busting out a rousing rendition of “Oh No You Didn’t”.
While EA’s free-gas publicity stunt to promote Mercenaries 2: World in Flames may have gone off with relatively few hitches when it hit Los Angeles last week, the company wasn’t so lucky when they took the show to London. Introducing the LA promotion to the folks across the pond also had the side effect of introducing LA traffic, causing gridlock conditions during morning rush hour. The giveaway started around 6:30 AM with £20,000 worth of petrol to be had, with authorities shutting them down around 11:00, with £9,000 still on tap. Liberal Democrat MP for Hornsey and Wood Green Lynne Featherstone scolded EA appropriately. “Whilst a lucky few might have got some free petrol, hundreds of local residents have faced misery on their daily journeys this morning…They deserve an apology for being the victims of such an ill-thought out media stunt”.
Oh come on Featherstone, it’s not like they strapped cash to babies and set them loose in a busy intersection.
Free petrol stunt causes chaos [Telegraph via Game Politics]
We have been posting quite a few videos on Mercenaries 2, but this one is without a doubt my favourite. Can anyone say airstrikes? Well, this video has tons of em’ and the best part is the song they blow up to! Tchaikovsky’s 1812 overture! The game comes out next week.
It’s not like Mercenaries 2 wasn’t looking good enough on its own. But hey, co-op never hurts, it only helps, especially when it’s instituted in the way Pandemic have it running for Mercenaries 2. After you start, there’s no game-interrupting menu screens, no lobbies, nothing. It’s drop-in, drop-out combat, and while the guest’s progress through the campaign won’t be saved when they quit, they will get to keep any cash and weapons they pick up. As for the host, there’s no adjustments made to the game when playing co-op, which means no extra enemies. So if you’re stuck on a spot, no problems, just get a friend playing and you can hide your singleplayer shame amidst the high-fives and hollering.
