Mercenaries | 
| From: Lucas Arts Entertainment
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Rating:  61 reviews
Sales Rank: 1759
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Action Games
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Xbox
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 66375
Model: 23272663759
UPC: 023272663759
EAN: 0023272663759
ASIN: B00020BV0Q
Release Date: June 15, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Items are guaranteed to play perfectly - US orders will arrive within 21 days. International Orders & Military APO/FPO orders may take 2-6 weeks. International orders get priority shipping at no extra charge. We DO NOT offer expedited shipping. We DO NOT
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| Features:
| • | Flexible, action-packed missions as you go after everyone on the Most Wanted list | | • | Explosive combat as you draw from a huge arsenal - you have the firepower to destroy anything you face | | • | Highly detailed and massive open environments that are completely interactive - If you can see it, you can use it, steal it, drive it, fly it or blow it up | | • | Choose which missions you'll accept - You can work for the UN, South Koreans, the Chinese government or the Russian Mafia. Make sure you pick clients carefully - they can go from friend to foe in an instant | | • | Use the cash you earn from different contracts to buy more advanced weapons, vehicles, even air strikes -- or sell your vehicles and weapons on the black market |
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Product Description
Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction is a revolutionary third person action-shooter game, set in the near future and inspired by real world events. A military leader stages a coup just as North and South Korea are preparing to unify, turning that region's political situation into violent chaos. As diplomacy fails, this new dictator threatens the world with nuclear war. The world's nations put an unprecedented $100,000,000 reward on him and his advisors. You've decided to claim that bounty.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 56 more reviews...
 should not compare with GTA January 21, 2005
C. Lee (Chicago, IL United States)
65 out of 72 found this review helpful
A lot of people who are unhappy with the game seems to be hung up on a simple issue: "Why isn't this game like Grand Theft Auto and more?" Although players who've spent any time with GTA will feel immediately familiar with the game's draw, a few hours in, you know that it's a very different experience. GTA is more about DRIVING; Mercenaries is about BLOWING STUFF UP! Where as GTA has better vehicle physics, the third-person-shooter aspect of Mercenaries is much more deep. Where as GTA has a generally upbeat tone (with the incessant radio music, bustling city landscape and often humorous/cartoon-like urban dwellers), the mood in Mercenaries is a lot more sober (music right out of a war movie, dark war-torn landscape and hostile soldiers).
If you enjoy GTA for the sheer freedom of actions you can take, whether it is to mow down pedestrians with a sedan, do impossible arial flips and in general, cause havoc just for the fun of it, you'll really enjoy Mercenaries; in the sheer carnage factor, Mercenaries top GTA. In terms of character development (of both your character and various ones you encounter along the game), Mercenaries is rather flat and uninteresting, compared to GTA. Take your pick.
There are two annoying things about the game for me. For one, the fact that you can routinely run through an enemy stronghold with a SMG and mow down dozens of soldiers while on foot without a hitch makes you feel uber-invincible. Whether it's a good thing (more opportunity to kick butt!) or a bad thing (makes missions too easy and unchallenging) is up to you. Another is the faltering AI of the enemies. Sometimes, they swarm all over you at the slightest trigger of danger with no regard for their own safety other than the most simple reactions (duck out of the way of speeding cars or raining bullets); other times, you can brush past your enemies and they won't lift a finger just because that particular faction is not your worst enemy in that particular mission. Often times, this leads to the feeling of being a in a Twighlight Zone; that you're the only 'human' in the entire game while others are just pre-programmed to interact with you within the bounds of a rather limited script. Again, this really doesn't hinder your ability to blow stuff up; but the interactive aspect with other 'people' kinda fall short of GTA.
Overall, one thing's without a doubt: Mercenaries will hook you the very minute you start playing and won't let you go until you can no longer keep your eyes open (or die from dehydration and starvation).
 GTA and Ghost Recon had a baby! January 12, 2005
wakerider74 (Pleasant Hill, CA)
19 out of 20 found this review helpful
First off let me say that my review is based on the single player campaign only. I know it kinda sucks without multiplayer and the Xbox live people will bitch but single player games have been coming up way short lately selling the game on the live or multiplayer when these things should be added benefit!
Ok, so the game has all the concepts of GTA3: Map system is identical, one massive area (about the size of at least 2 or maybe all 3 GTA3 islands put together), and contracts can be taken from different groups for cash and new merchandise in your online black market store. The game play is like a combo of Ghost Recon 2 and GTA3. The graphics are exceptional and the music was surprisingly good too. Every structure, vehicle, prop, and aircraft is destructible! The more creative you are the more fun you can make the game... have a large group of enemies near by? Air Strike and blow em to bits! Road Block? Put a pack of C4 on the hood of your vehicle, drive towards and jump out then trigger the C4... Road block cleared! There is so much more you can do and so much I have yet to discover but this game defiantly came under the radar and is shaping up to be a very nice surprise.
My only negative is that it did seem to have about a 2 hour learning curve to get comfortable with the controls and general functions of the game.
In short this is a great game for a solo experience, huge replay value and from what I can tell the length is very refreshing.
Excellent GTA style free-flowing 3rd person shooter February 24, 2005
Vonworm (USA)
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
I'd been looking for a decent GTA style game for a while now and since XBox owners won't see GTA:SA for some time I thought Mercenaries would fill the slot nicely. And boy it does!
Following on from the GTA's groundbreaking no-rules gameplay, Mercenaries allows for complete free-roaming non-linear action. The first time I exited the campground I wanted to see just how much freedom the game would offer - so rather than go an speak to whoever it was the game was directing me to, I decided to try to steal and enemy vehicle and go off on my own adventure. After finding a North Korean jeep and 'acquiring' it, my road journey began. Before I knew it, I was deep in a North Korean compound apparently having convinced the NK's that I'm one of them. The sensation of knowing I might be caught at anytime is just one of the thrills the game serves up. I took out bunkers, subdued guards, stole tanks destroyed entire buildings - all without being instructed to. Marvellous.
Sure, like with GTA, the game has certain plot points and story quests that will allow your character to progress and use bigger and better weapons. But you can do them in your own time when you choose - I love that. Even when you die all is not lost - unless you're on an ace contract all that happens is you resurrect in the ally campground and lose some money; just like a hospital visit in GTA!
The graphics perform well although there is a mist that's obviously covering up pop-up. Understandable though given that massive terrain you can traverse (with NO loading). And the game does have a certain dark brown feel - but again it's in keeping with the theme of the game. The physics of the game is incredible though, with almost everything destroyable, moveable or stealable. I was shooting some rockets at a guard tower and upon the third hit the whole thing fell. And it didn't just go 'pop'... it slowly FELL, with dust, bricks and debris flying off it all acompanied by appropriate bone crunching audio. It really took my by surprise at how it all went down, and since then I've been blowing up everything I can by using hand-planted C4 or even laser-targeted airstrikes for the big stuff.
Overall this game seems quite shallow initially, but after scores of hours playing I can say this is every bit as deep GTA3 et al, and worth every penny. Highly recommended.
Impressive. Most impressive. Rockstar has taught you well. January 28, 2005
S. Maloney (Dayton, Ohio)
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
This game is excellent!
I wish that this had been an Xbox exclusive, because then all my friends with a PS2 and the Grand Theft Auto series would be feeling left out for once!
This game rivals the GTA concept but surpasses and delivers where GTA fails. Don't get me wrong, GTA is a great game, but the series seems to have grown stagnate - Mercenaries does something new but very familiar, making it a great game that is easy to pick up and play. The military story is fresh and seemingly ripped from the headlines. The game is very enjoyable and not overly simplistic, but not frustratingly difficult.
Plus you can blow stuff up! And then blow it up again! And then blow the crap out of it some more! Totally awesome greatness!
This is definitely not a game you rent, this is one to be purchased and put on display in your finest game display case!
AWESOME GAME!!! March 24, 2005
M. Boone (Manhattan, IL United States)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
This is a very fun game. It is like a combo of a strategy war game and a Grand Theft Auto game.
Basically, the plot is to catch (dead or alive) the deck of 52 and complete missions for The Allies (The AN, like the UN in real life), South Korea, The Russian Mafia (has their own website to order supplies so they're good to work for), and China. You can switch who you want to work with time to time but make sure to not become enemies with other countries.
A really fun part of this game is you get paid for completing objectives like stealing a North Korean missile truck, blowing up North Korean tanks, eliminate the Russian Mafia captains, blowing up pretty much anything (except civilians or AN troops), and more.
While not on a mission, you can do side missions to earn extra cash and drive around to find a person from the deck of 52. You can kill a member of the deck of 52 but you only get half the cash so bringing them alive is a lot better.
Every car is "steal-able" and certain cars give you a certain disguise like a civilian, a North Korean, and as any of the other countries.
You choose from three characters to play as through the whole game. One has more armor, one is more stealthier, and one a the fastest. This game is a lot of fun.
It's just like Grand Theft Auto but with an international plot. I give this game five out of five stars without a doubt.
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