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Blown Away!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Warning: this game is not for kids!

Mercenaries for the Xbox is a third-person action shooter. You can pick one of three mercenaries as your character. The north korean dictator killed his father and took over the country's nuclear weapons. The allied nations and three other factions; russian mafia, south korea, and china all converge in to battle for territory and money over the war. They all want to hire you to do covert jobs for them so they can gain the upperhand in the battles. The game starts off by dropping your character off in war-torn korea, already equipped with an assualt rifle, grenades and driving a hummer! You can decide which factions to join and be their allies or become their enemy. You are allowed to pick which contracts (missions) to accept as well! The main goal of the game is to capture or kill 52 war criminals that work for the north koreans; they are called the "deck of 52 cards". The map is huge and really conveys war, with the ambient sound effects, smoke, debris, fires and dust! You can steal any vehicle (jeeps, tanks, cars, trucks, helicopters and more) in the game! You can steal and use any weapons (assualt rifles, machine guns, rpgs, c4 and more) in the game! You can blow anything up with explosives (houses, vehicles, fortress and more)! Since the game is FREE-FORM, You can do anything and go anywhere you want! So it gives you lots of freedom and allows to you get creative in the way you approach enemy targets. Are you surrounded and overwhelmed by enemies? Just call an Air-Strike and blow them all away to kingdom come! I love Mercenaries, it lives up to the hype and is as much fun or more than GTA!

Pros:
+FREE-FORM gameplay
+excellent action
+excelent controls
+excellent graphics
+excellent explosions
+excellent A.I.
+excellent voice-acting
+excellent animations
+excellent vehicles
+excellent weapons
+excellent level designs
+pick your missions
+rag-doll physics
+explore the map; lots of freedom!
+play side-quests or mini-games
+excellent sound effects
+excllent music
+excellent ambient sounds
+very little loading

Cons:
-single player game
-no Xbox live
-you cannot swim; water kills you
-you cannot fly jets or use boats

Mercenaries review

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

After seeing commercials for this game that said you can highjack, blow up, destroy, and drive pretty much everything you can find i had to find out if this was true. This is a great alternative to Halo 2 with simple controls that take five minutes max to learn. The graphics are great, especially if you are blowing up a car or helicopter.

Pros:
1. open enviroment which allows you to make a name for yourself
2. your actions have consequences.(such as if you kill a UN soldier the UN faction won't like you as much)
3.solid graphics
4.expansive territory
5.you can drive or fire anything you find which makes the game feel more real
6.deep story line
7.simple controls
8.a cheat weapons drop
9.there are North Korean bases everywhere which are fun to destroy
Cons:
1.after a while the game becomes monotonous
2.stupid A.I.
3.some missions are impossible without cheats

Great Game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I've been pondering whether I should get this game or not for quite some time. So, I coughed up the fifty bucks finally and, i don't regret it. This game is really fun, though sometimes repetitive. Great effects, sounds, and missions. You really can hijack any vehicle, and blow up anything, except for trees. Trees seem to be indestructable in this game for some reason. Having an HDTV is the best too because it makes the graphics better. The game is a little buggy and takes some time to learn. You'll have good fun playing this. At least 20+ hours worth!

Very fun game!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is a blast! Good graphics, nice sound and a amazing music score,cool guns and vehicles, and a super fun single-player. I would rent it first and see if you like it. If you do, buy it!! I give it a 5 out of a 5.

Love this game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I think this game is great. My friend and I replay it all the time, long after we had bought it. We thought it was pretty naff after playing it after Medal of Honour, but really got into it once we realized it was not a GTA shoot-em-up. I was more of a battle-field game where you can drive around, and THEN shoot people up. The tag-line is "Blow stuff up!", and it works pretty good. After you finish the whole game you can find the cheat wepons like the "air-strike" bazoka (Second to last level before the Ace of Spades. Kill the General and there is a crate off to your side, bash it and hey-presto!). If you go back and re-play the game with these weapons it is SO easy (Almost too easy, but hey, it's a game).

A GOOD MIX OF BLOWING STUFF UP AND KILLING

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have big problem with games that are war-themed and combine gameplay that is essentialling killing and blowing stuff up with shallow patriotism (TOM CLANCY I AM TALKING TO YOU). Even worse when that patriotism is combined with racist stereotypes, like in Medal of Honor -Rising Son.

That said, this game rules. In Mercenaries, you are a morally ambivilant bounty hunter capturing North Korean badguys while you make side deals with various factions fighting for control of North Korea- a well thought out premise that stresses money over nationalism and keeps the noxious "right vs wrong" sentiment out entirely.

Most importantly, this game is a lot of fun. You pick one of three mercenaries, who all play pretty much the same but are of differnent nationalities and have personality traits that you can (but don't have to) follow in the game. You can fight anybody at any time, but must later bribe their gaurds if you you get too hostile to any of the neutral factions. T

There are lots of missions that consist mostly of capturing or killing wanted north korean terrorist but just trekking around the countryside, blowing stuff up is fun too. Most structures will come down with some well placed C4. But you can also call in airstrikes and artillary bombardments if the going gets too tough.

The lack of a 2nd player option would have made this game awsome, but as it is - it is highly reccommended.

A credible threat

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Mercenaries succeeds in creating scenarios that are fictional yet believable. There is a kernel of truth to the stories : the Commies are up to no good. Neither are the Russians. Your paycheck comes as you take them out, one thug lieutenant at a time.

This game doesn't have any weaknesses. The graphics are smooth and the play control is well polished. Its a solid release. But without any true innovation, I can only give it 4 out of 5.

SWEET GAME A MUST BUY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Hi all,
Let me just say THIS GAME RULES!!! I just got it a couple of days ago and love it. Artillery strikes, carpet bombs, RPG's, C4, ect.... This game is so fun getting the russian mafia to bring you a hummer h3 and lots of other stuff

BUY THIS GAME!!!

Peace out,
Boba Fett clone 22

P.s. try to keep the russian mafia happy :)

Lets Blow Something Up!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I rated this game a 4 overall just because of no option for 2-player mode. Other than that, this is a no holds bar explosion fest. if it exists, you can blow it up, if it has wheels or moves, you can hi-jack it. Mercenaries has an open map much like the GTA series with side mission along the way. You work several different factions, or countries, like the Russian Mafia, China, Allies, South Korea and North Korea. You work each one against the other, without getting yourself killed in the middle. in the meanwhile, you are working on a "Deck Of 52" cards, 52 of the most wanted dictators and drug cartel. So you will have plenty of playing time, and lots to do. this game should last you a while before completely beating it. have FUNNN with this one.

Not much more that you can ask for

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction 8.5/10
Not any glaring weaknesess in the game other than the slight repetitiveness. It's allways a "go do this" contract but since each contract presents a diffirent challenge, it doesn't get old very quick.

It's a very fun third-person shooter, with a fairly wide aray of weapons and vehicles to use (but none of the vehicles are particularly outstanding). One of the highlights of the game: the explosions are AMAZING!!! I'm someone who easily sees explosions as tacky or poorly done or animated, but these are top-notch and very satisfying.

The free-roaming aspect makes it nice if you just want to go look for a fight or some free weapons or "health" that someone left lying around. I personally love the storyline, but the general consensus is that it's just a B+ plot.

There's not very many things that you can point to to say that it's a great game, but the fact that it's very well-balanced and has few weak points makes it very enjoyable.

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