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  • I have such fonder memories of what now we call old video games.

  • haha first time i got this game i started WW3 cause i had no idea what i was doin......love this game

  • UGHHH no more ps2 or xbox.... i will never play this game again unless there is a way to get this on pc.

  • @eric2dea you make me sick!

  • @Shockerbv i meant that i no longer own a ps2 or xbox, so i am unable to play the game. sorry if i was vague. i am saying i long to play this game!

  • Had so many good memories with this game :)

    Gladly, I still have this game and I still play it today. Graphics aren't everything is totally true, enjoyment is :D

  • I couldn't help but agree with most of the review.. I just WISH they would make games like these again, not over the top graphics or so realistic you die in a second. -_-' Damn this game was legendary :)

  • old times dont ya think

  • The phenomenal and realistic story alone persuaded me to re-purchase this game. I just love re-living the memories of this game from 2004, and it's the only PS2 game I continue to go back to.

  • GTA in the military naw thats hot!

  • the grphics were awsome in those years

  • Nostalgia attack! Haven't played this game in ages. It's tucked in the storage room somewhere. Going to find it one of these days!

  • wich has better graphics on the game ps2 or xbox please tell me

  • I wanted to play this game last week and found out that Xbox 360 4g cannot play original Xbox games :(. Ended up playing Mercs 2.

  • I used to love this game. Wish i still had it.

    

  • this game looks fucking awesome

  • It astounds me how much interest people have in Mercenaries, what with near 50,000 views.

    I guess when EA eventually remembers that Mercenaries is an IP of theirs, they'll get around to releasing another sequel that, again, won't be anywhere as good as this game was in terms of atmosphere, music, and just how the game handled itself.

    You know what I wouldn't mind? An HD re-release. HD remastering is all the rage nowadays, and I'm picking up MGS HD Collection for sure, so how about Mercs. HD?!

  • @MrAnders0n2 that would be cool but EA took over Pandemic soo it will never happen and it sucks

  • @AmericanIdiot181 Oh no I'm quite sure EA can get another studio of theirs to make the transition. MGS HD Collection is being handled by a different studio that I don't even think Konami owns, so yeah, this stuff works itself out.

  • @MrAnders0n2 good point

  • amazing game

  • Apart from Ratchet & Clank: Locked and Loaded, Mercenaries is the most fun I have ever had on the PS2. Period.

  • i like this 1 better than 2nd 1

  • damn i like this game it is 2011 i still play it

  • -.- I keep seeing a face in the crosshairs

  • i bought this game yesterday... IT'S AWESOME! 

  • hell i loved this game

  • I find it weird that they put a city as the backround of the main menu that doesn't exist. In my 4 years of playing the game, I have never come across this city or the Song Monument at the main menu. I used to think it was Yongbyon, but Yongbyon only has 1 big building, and this place has 2 big buildings. Has anyone else come across it?

  • When I think about some good game I think about Mercs.

  • can anyone tell me why merc1 is better than 2?

  • @gtaresidentflip It has better climate and its kinda better overall if you played both.

  • @gtaresidentflip Mercs 2 is often fun like this game, but it wasn't really finished when it was released. The stakes didn't feel high in the 2nd one- Whereas in the first game, the North Koreans felt like a pretty big threat, the second one does not give that feeling. The music isn't as good. The second one is under-programmed- the "final battle," that the second one builds up to, is just simply destroying some anti-air positions. It was bullshit. Where's the epicness?And Silencers don't work.

  • @gtaresidentflip The missions are less interesting in general- whereas in the first one missions developed in a few stages, with unexpected obstacles, etc.- the second one is just-" Go blow up these things. Good here's money." The first one wasn't just about blowing things up, contrary to what many might say- it's about the thrill of action. And that's what I was expecting in the battle in Mercs 2- heli battles, tanks, infantry and apc's taking positions, etc. Well good now I've expressed myself

  • @iforgot87871 Great post.

    For me, it was also about the foggy, cloudy, war-torn atmosphere accompanied by the breathtaking soundtrack. I'm gonna go listen to it now!

  • @MrAnders0n2 The Soundtrack is so great. One of the best VG soundtracks ever. It kind of got me into movie soundtracks actually. I recommend Checking out Medal of Honor Frontline's soundtrack as well- same composer, also awesome.

  • He forgot to mention on how it takes an AIRSTRIKE and some C4 to take down a FENCE!

  • mercenaries was just epic, the second one looked like a paradise in war. EA should sell this to rockstar games

  • lol good messy thrill

  • 1:09.

    I love this reviewer.

  • This has been the best game ever.

  • According to a German PC gaming website there are rumors that EALA is going to still do a Mercenaries 3 game using the Forstbite 2.0 engine (Battlefield 3 engine).

    I know this is just a rumor but if it is true I am really happy.

  • @Coolkillerbear it is true...tho maybe you already knew about it

  • Iv never had more fun than when I played this game.

  • this way better that mercs2

  • is this the same as mercs playground of destruction? I have the PAL version but it wont work on my US PS2 so I had to get this one and it's just mercs. i'm gonna have so much fun blowing stuff up in this game.

  • @coondogtheman1234 this IS mercs playground of destruction... wow

  • the good old mercenaries days. i miss this game.

    I also like how violent both of these games are yet, there still rated T

  • i love this game. i think mercenaries 2 was good too. just like chriscos123 said, blowing shit up is fun. especialy when you can nuke the shit out of towns and oil rigs.

  • It is a shame they didn't try this time. Mercs 2 could of been good. instead its just another rushed, half assed, game that could of been another instant classic.

  • @jerm923 On the contrary. Mercs 2 was a very fun and exiting game, although admitadly it does lack some major polishing issues

  • I wish they could make mercs 3. cause it would be awsome if they added competive multiplayer to mercs

  • mercs 1 10000000000000/5 mercs 2 2/5 this game is better than 2 in 1 they have a mafia in 2 there is not

  • @SilverHands1 no that just the cover

  • Mercenaries 2 was terrible, the original was so much better, balancing faction relations was much more of a tactical decision, darker atmosphere, it was so revolutionary for its generation. It sucks it freezes every-time i play it on 360. maybe mercs 3 will bring it back to its roots.

  • @NationalBoxingDay Mercs 3 = Canceled, but really, mercs 2 was Fun, nuff said. Thats the entire point of a game, to be fun, and if blowing shit up is fun, it's my kind of game.

  • Ryan skinnier? o_O

  • THE GAME IS ONLY 3RD PERSON O M G NOOBS :(

  • i have me old black xbox yet i will buy this game thanks look nice

  • R.I.P. Pandemic Studios...you made some of the best...

  • This game is sweet, I bought Saboteur and then got an original xbox and this game came with it, I don't play the Saboteur now, lol. Pandemic does some real nice stuff. Gonna get Merc 2 next

  • If they make a #3, I hope they make it better than 2, and almost as good as #1 had been. Mercs 1 was awesome, glitchy, and explosive.

  • @MrAnders0n2 hell yeah its always sunny in phoenix!!

  • Just Cause 2 is the biggest rip off this game ever.

  • @LamentOfInnocence1 Eh, not really. I look at it as what Mercenaries 2 SHOULD have been. Oh, I'm sure it took some inspiration from the Mercenaries series, but to call it a rip off? Nah. It's a good game.

  • @MrAnders0n2

    Pretty much everything is taken from it, except the parachute and grappling hook. But yes, they did copy the best, and yes, Just Cause 2 is a pretty good game. Mercenaries 2 is also pretty good, besides turning Chris into cigar chomping Samuel L. Jackson.

  • @LamentOfInnocence1 I have both 1 and 2 and they're both made by Pandemic Studios, so technically, it's not a rip off. They are both great games.

  • @TheBigvic100 yes they should, just like they did call of duty 1 or sonic thedgehog genesis games

  • can you destroy things in this game like buildings? how about the ground can you destroy it like in red faction.

  • Buildings yep!

    Not ground :(

    But buildings are more fun to destroy then the ground haha :P

    And you can take cars and stuff

  • They just need to release a special edition of this game with co-operative game play added in and some more vehicles and weapons and sell it at a cheap price like $19.99. That would help make up for the disappointment of Mercenaries 2.

  • the first game is much better. the only thing that 2 has it beat in is co op

  • Kinda scary how the game is all about the world vs North Korea, considering the current situation. Let's just hope it doesn't come to this. But this game is fucking awesome, nonetheless.

  • i call it "practice".

  • when this game first game out i got it while in real life on the news there were saying that north korea was lunching a misssile, that was posibly heded for us

  • Is there like a between mission like free-roam or something? I've only played Mercs 2 and I wondered if it was something like that.

  • Mercs 1  was waaaaay more fun, get it.

  • true...north korea is way more fun than venezuela....and theres a diff variety of vehicles that i like more

  • yes you can free roam

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  • Can u change the view from fps to 3rd person? please answer. =)

  • Nah, dude.

  • Yes you can.......Up,Down,Down,Left,Ri­ght

  • This game is 3X better than mercenaries 2. The controls for the second one are so unresponsive and there are way too many glitches in the 2nd one for it to be considered successfull. along with that, the first one has a larger variety of missions.

  • So true.

    The plot, atmosphere and characters were a lot better as well.

  • I loved this game!

    I think it's so much better than the second one, i hate that game.

  • live out in Seattle it rains or is cloudy 80% of the time thats no joke. Or live in Ireland same fate of that country.

  • @tgoodfella

    I like the cold and rain. Last winter was a disappointment, only 3 or so weeks of 20 degrees and no real snow here in Edmonds. WASHINGTON FUCK YEAH

    (not the east though. ha.)

  • love this game

  • The review is for the PS2, but at several points, it says to press Y... Teeheehee... A flipping well.

  • DAMN!

    lol @ end.

  • at 1:59 the guy runs right in front of the heavy machine gun lol

  • very lol. in fact its rotflmao!!!

  • mercs 2 had a big map but you stay in one spot most of the time. But mercs 1 seem to have a bigger map. If mercs 1 had all the cars and stuff mercs 2 had. Mercs 1 would be the best game ever made

  • lol it scored higher than 2 did from ign

  • lol, woodchipper guy from fargo...what a weird movie.

  • the first mercs is a legend my ps2 is broke if you gave me a choice between getting mercs2 for free on my 360 or a nother ps2 for my mercs game id get ps2 for mercs it was nonstop fun

  • is this world in flames?

  • no it isn't

  • oh okai.. its the first one of corse.. thnk you

  • great more the best mother fucking game invented rating 999999999999999999999999999999­999999999999999999999999999999­999999999999999999999999999999­999999999999999999999999999999­999999999999999999999999999999­999999999999999999999999999999­999999999999999999999999999999­999999999999999999999999999999­999999999999999999999999999999­999999999999999999999999999999­999999999999999999999999999999­999999999999999999999999999999­999999999999999999999999999999­999999999999999999999999999999­999999999999999999999999

  • this game rocks im going to buy it. mercs 2 sucks it is very glitchy and not a big map

  • what age rating is the second one?

  • rated T

  • LOL!!!

  • He looks like the kid from Two and a half Men all grown up.

  • Lol!!!! your right actually

  • Mercenaries for the PS2? Was that an Xbox Y Button I saw?

  • lol

  • Pandemic makes great games

  • i agree, i loved the first one. new one looks a little too much for me.

  • You mean an unfinished, glitchy mess. :(

    Had high-hopes for Mercenaries 2... EA acquired them while Mercenaries 2 was in production. That means something.

  • This is a lot better than their review for Mercs 2.

  • well, this game is a lot better than mercs 2.

  • Yeah but Mercs 2 doesnt deserve a 5.0. Its still a pretty good game despite all the glitches.

  • A next-gen sequel should not feel like a step back from the origional.

  • your right thats why mercenaries 2 kills the old one in every way. (except for the amount of glitches)

  • mercs 2 didnt kill mercs 1 it went to low to describe mercs was great mercs 2 was just a small map some "new physics soft shadows bloom" and not that much to do

    somthing about mercs 1 was to fun

  • i thought this game was ment to be set int he city goddammit

  • I might start playing this again.

  • ..and i thought gta san andreas graphics were good.

  • I miss the sounds/music to the original xD

    Oh well I have the 2nd one... still miss the first.

  • Yeah, I agree. I don't like the music as much in Mercenaries 2 at all, and I don't really care for the environment in Mercenaries 2 either.

  • I don't mind the music, but even if the music in Mercs was repeatative, it was still cool xD.

    Even so I love Mercs 2.

  • i kno! vietnam, PERFECT SETTING...

    venezuela. WHAT THE FUCK?

  • The first game is set in North Korea, not Vietnam.

  • mercs2 is gonna be so sick cuz mercs 1 didnt have much color to it but mercs 2 is gonna look great

  • 8.8!!!!

  • does this game have co-op?? somone answer plz

  • No, but Mercenaries 2 will have online co-op through the story and I think multi-player. I'm certain on the co-op on the second though.

  • it is going to be awsome but unfortunately it only will have multiplayer co-op!

  • luv this game i can wait till 2 comes out

  • feels good to wake up in the morn, pop in this game n blow the shit outta evrytin

  • roflmao. well said.

  • @JOSHCHAIN Dude i fucking used to to do exactly that when I was younger and aimless this game made me wake up good and early in the morning and wasted so many hours on it. shit its so hard to find a good copy of the original now days. kinda wish it would live on as dlc for psn or xbox live like the prince of persia hd games

  • Aaah, back in the days when Gamespot wasnt biased and wasnt sucking companies cocks (Sorry Gamewspot Fans, but firing someone for expressing their own opinion is complete bullshit) I fuckin love this game, because after a hard day, who doesnt like to blow up random buildings?

  • im looking for that last game for my ps2 collection... untill my ps3 come next week. should i get dis?

  • fuck yourself its awesome

  • yes get it

  • This Game Is Awesome i just bought it 3 hours ago cuz my original stopped working...only cost me $10

  • where did you get it

  • got it from eb games...pre owned they were having that crazy sale where games were dirt cheap

  • OMFG... I cant find it anywhere!

  • omg i just got it yesterday from gamestop and wasnt pre-owned they got like 10 at my gamestop

  • Its nit even on the website, so I dont know how I'm gonnna get this...

  • Music is great too.

  • 2:21 right in the crotch LOL

    still i agree with MrAnderson0n2

    "Classic" material through and through

  • Haha, yeah.

    Hey, I see that you're a Diablo fan. I just thought it'd be nice of me to tell you that Diablo 3 was just announced.

  • I saw that but thx man appreciate it

  • this game is beast! but 8.8 seriously! this game is much better than that! I would give it a 10.0! JK!!!

  • this game is awesome

  • the game is impossible to beat without cheats

  • no its not. it pretty easy to me.lol

  • By the looks of it, I assume they're showing footage from the Xbox version? I have the PS2 version, and the framerate barely skims the line as acceptable. I'm just wondering if anybody else has a choppy framerate with the PS2 version or some official proof that the PS2 version has worse framerate than the Xbox version.

    thanks

    8.8 is a good outcome, it's a very nice game.

  • my framerate seems to fine..mybe the disc is scratched or something

  • Yeah, maybe. It's a burnt disc lol

  • might explain it lol

  • i fink there is a shotgun error on the game when you fire it there is no sound effect coming from it. i expect a blast noise from it but nothin. is it just mi game or is it a glitch in every game. Reply when ever possible

  • Holy shit, same for me. I got the game brand new near the time it came out in 2005. I was wondering why the shotgun wouldn't make any noise. I was awfully disappointed since shotguns are awesome.

  • thanks for tht m8

  • Hey, no problem. :)

  • I hear a sound effect when I fire the shotgun??

  • what kind of a noise?

  • *Bang*

  • dougd1015: *Bang*

    EPIC WIN!

  • I won epicly?

  • then ending was good. 8.8, great. "Damn!"

  • i have that game and i need alot of money in the game

  • lol theres so many cheats for the game

  • GTA IV is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.

    Read up on GTA IV before saying awful shit like that. It's completely reworked.

  • Im geting it because my friend wont shut up about it and i dunno what he's talking about.

  • Still haven't clocked this game. Damn it's epic.

  • it looks like freedom fighters

  • This is one great game. I got it and fell in love. GO MAFIA!

  • Ive got this game on PS2 and Im completed and on 4th time through it, i think its a great game to play (1 the best i got) and i am really looking forward to Mercenaries 2, bad thing is it keeps getting delayed and if any1 knows a release date I would love to no

    P.S Favorate Wep: Carpet Bomb

  • August of this year, or 2009.

  • does the xbox version run on the 360?

  • yes

  • Is this a free roam game? please answer!