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Binding: Video Game
Brand: ACTIVISION
EAN: 0023272663506
Label: Activision
Manufacturer: Activision
Manufacturer Maximum Age: 18 years
Manufacturer Minimum Age: 180 months
Number Of Items: 1
Platform: Xbox
Publisher: Activision
Release Date: February 18, 2005
Studio: Activision
Sales Rank: 915
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Manufacturer's Description: Mercenaries is a revolutionary, 3rd person action-shooter game set in the near future and inspired by real world events. On the eve of a historic reunification of North and South Korea, a ruthless general stages a military coup to take control of North Korea and threatens the world with nuclear war. The international community launches a global task force to stabilize the region. However, when diplomatic efforts collapse and the region descends into anarchy they announce a one hundred million dollar bounty on the North Korean general and his top military and scientific advisors. The targets are identified in a "most wanted" list in the form of a 52-card deck of playing cards. As one of the top operatives for a private mercenaries company called Executive Operations, you have been called in to collect on these bounties.
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. Explosive combat - you have the firepower (choose from a huge arsenal of realistic, military weapons) to lay waste to anything in sight. Flexible gameplay - Use your weapons and your imagination to figure out how to complete missions in a variety of ways in non-scripted environments. Dozens of different military and civilian vehicles, ranging from tanks, cars, trucks, helicopters, and more that can be commandeered at anytime and used for any purpose. Some of the best graphics seen on the consoles - great weather and realistic explosion/destruction effects. Based on the US military’s system of identifying a "most wanted" list of enemy targets in a playing card deck, players will use the playing card metaphor to identify missions and enemy targets. Take on missions from the different factions in order to gain intelligence and get new playing cards/targets and access to new areas. Reputation system that is driven by an embedded journalist that records player actions, which determines how civilians and the various warring factions respond to the player. Earn cash from different missions to buy better weapons and vehicles, or sell your vehicles and weapons on the black market.
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Ive played this game through dozens of times, unmissable - like grand theft auto with a good storyline- a must buy for any gamer.
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I got this game for my birthday after begging and begging my parents for it. I started off playing it years ago on a demo game controlling a swedish guy with a weird hair style and i thought"wow!". It was brilliant! And when I unwrapped it on my birthday i pegged it downstairs and shoved it in the drive!
It starts off with you choosing a character out of a lady or two men, and then you start the game. Your in an aeroplane and you have to pick up your grenades, PDA and your gun(Carbine) and then you get in a jeep and fall out of the plane. You have to drive to the allied HQ and sign a contract to get a mission. You have to capture a guy and then blow up these artillery strikes with some bombs you get given. And then you get to go ... Read More:
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MERCENARIES
This game is one of the best I've ever played.
Choose from one of 4 characters, and earn money by accepting missions from different factions (ie: locate and destroy the missile launchers), and along the way look out for enemy agents to dispose of, (don't kill the locals!) earning extra cash to buy more weapons and help.
Not only are the graphics stunning, the detail extraordinary, the gameplay exciting, but you are not limited to what you can do or where you can go (Ie: i had to destroy a mobile radar jammer but had run out of bombs, so i hijacked it and drove it at speed into the river); blow up anything you want up, control any vehicle you come across (helicopters, tanks, missile launchers, even airport trucks), ... Read More:
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Whoah! What a game, I've completed it 4 times but I keep coming back to it!
The landscape is MASSIVE, and its completely free roaming, go where you want, blow up what you want. There is a constant fog, which is obviously covering pop up, and this can be a problem with the sniper, as you can see where your target is, (A yellow circle), but due to pop up you can't shoot them as they don't appear at this range.
The AI is fairly good, but you can sneek up behind it and it won't notice till you touch it.
The vehicles are great, you can get helicopters, tanks, jeeps, sports car and trucks. All of which are great to drive. Quite a few have extra turrets for allies and some you can control a weapon yourself, like a tank of ... Read More:
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i have played the demo of this game and it i really good there is so much stuff to do like fly choppers and drive tanks, jeeps everything! The best is to call in the big bombs to blow lodes of stuff up.
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