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  • 21 of 21 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Jamz.13

    4 Stars I Want To Blow It All Up!!!! 30/03/2007
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Good Game Fun

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Poor Version Of GTA

    I bought this game as I am a great lover of first person shooter games and particularily of modern warfare games and it did not dissapoint me at all. You play as a member of a mecenary force with 52 cards each with the face of a target on it and a bounty on their head which you will pocket should you capture or even kill them giving a whole new games meaning to dead or alive. I had hours and hours of fun with this game before eventually selling it to a friend and buying a new game. Gameplay The game play is very smooth you have an element of free roam where you can get friendly or not with ... more
  • 23 of 23 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    hippykiller

    4 Stars Money+mindless destruction= mercenaries 12/07/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages it the best gta clone yet

    Disadvantages Disadvantages not much replay value

    Mercenaries is an active action game from the creators of Lucas arts. Storyline Set in the not too distant future, north Korea is a country in chaos, with it being completely isolated the country is tighter then any country In the world, during this time president Kim seeks a peaceful relationship and hopefully return north Korea into a complete country again. But his son general moon had different ideas and so he killed his father and started to run the country back into a dictatorship, the United Nations finally decided to take action when they discovered that North Korea was buying nuclear ... more
  • 12 of 12 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    masterblaster1982

    5 Stars If you have the money, you can buy it Review with images 01/08/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Massive world, great missions and great Destruction

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Could of done with co-op play

    Game Info Genre = Free Roaming Game Developer = Pandemic Studios Publisher = Lucas Arts Players = 1 Online = No Age = 16+ Released = February 2005 ----------------------------------------​----------------------- In the game, players choose to be one of three mercenaries: an American ex-soldier, a British secret agent, or a Swedish bounty hunter. As one of theses mercs you do missions for different international factions, including China, North Korea, and the Russian Mafia. Players choose to make enemies or form alliances with these factions. There are 52 main enemies that you have to kill or ... more
  • 10 of 10 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    ps2gamer890

    4 Stars Not a GTA beater? no, but still an epic 27/10/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Great Graphics, good atmosphere, Good challenge, not far from GTA

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Long load times, Too much driving, can be dull

    You probably gathered from the title that this is not as good as GTA, but experience shows that if a game is as good as GTA, it exists only in the developer's mind. Like Driv3r. But, that doesn't mean that this is not a pretty good try. Mercenaries is an open ended, non linear, GTA-like experience. You can jack vehicles, shoot people, etc, etc. You're a mercenary (choice of three) who has been drafted to North Korea by your mercenary company. It's 2007...nuclear weapon threat by North Korea.......different factions......Evil NK mastermind...... and so on. There's no real underlying plot, just ... more
  • 9 of 9 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Solidsnake0

    4 Stars War... Never Been So Much Fun. 29/06/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Great Graphics, superb shooting and the mere fact you can blow up virtualy anything, lots of replay value.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages AI is not the smartest out there, is more linear than you might think.

    LucasArts… you've gotta love em'. They have a reputation of releasing great and not so great Star Wars games, along with others that no one remembers. However the past year has seen some great titles such as Battlefront, Knights of the Old Republic 2 (not forgetting the recently released Republic Commando) and Mercenaries is no exception. To cut a long story short Mercenaries is set in a war torn North Korea. The country has set up weapons of mass destruction programs and is also supplying weapons to terrorists. North Korea is then overrun with the Allied Nations, South Korean military ... more
  • 15 of 15 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 3 zero1010

    Member since 23/04/2005

    Reviews written: 16

    4 Stars Kicking Arse and Taking Names 24/02/2006
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Totally interactive environment, blow the hell out of everything in sight

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Repitition

    Ever dream of being a soldier of fortune, living off you wits and looking through life down the sights of a light machine gun, calling in air strikes to rain fire, misery and death on everyone around you? If this is you then I have two things to say. 1) Do you need counselling? 2) Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction is the game for you. Mercenaries are set in North Korea just after a military coup. General Song has overthrown and assassinated his father President Kim. After the discovery that the new regime is smuggling nuclear weapons to terrorists the UN invades North Korea. Bounties are ... more
  • 6 of 6 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 1 ilocboy

    Member since 06/08/2007

    Reviews written: 7

    5 Stars GOOD GAME - KABOOOOOM!! 08/08/2007
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages MANY VEHICLES, AIR STRIKES, GUNS,

    Disadvantages Disadvantages JUST BUY THE GAME!!!!!

    I beat this game and let me tell you something, This game is for people love explosions just like what's on the cover. The game revolves around 3 character each with different language advantage, for example one can speak russian, the other two speak chinese and korean. In the game you start off as a mercenary looking to do missions for different governments, now why would they hire me you ask? Well it's because of your expertise. Basically what you do in the game is to earn as musch money as possible and as well as killling the bad guys who try to kill you. The story is set in South Korea and ... more
  • 6 of 7 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Boothegoose

    4 Stars GTA clone-With more tanks and surgical airstrikes 09/05/2006
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Fast-paced non-stop action. Great graphics, addictive

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Goodbye social life

    Mercenaries really lives up to its title, it really is the playground of destruction. You choose from one of three mercenaries whose task is to liason with local agencies in the DMZ, and then ultimately capture/kill General Song, the villian of the game. The beginning of the game sees the character being airdropped out of a plane in the middle of a pitched battle between the allied command and North Korean froces and sets the tone nicely for this fast action -packed game. You start with a very GTA style format with you having to take orders from each of the various factions in turn, then later ... more
  • 2 of 3 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    TOMMY3192

    4 Stars 'Playground Of destruction' 21/08/2008
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages fully destructible landscape

    Disadvantages Disadvantages little bit repepitive after a while

    Mernaries is a great game. You start with a choice to play as either one of three characters, involving you in the game straight away. The video cut scenes are good, seemlessly linking you between gameplay and video. The aim of the game is too overthrow the North korean government, named the 'Deck of 52' as every key member of the regime is assorted into various decks and numbers, starting from the lowest to the highest, 'The ace of spades'. You are allowed to fully roam the vast landscape, or you can simply stick to the missions, set by the leaders of the four factions, the 'UN' , the ... more
  • 4 of 9 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Poison887

    3 Stars Not bad 04/05/2007
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages looks great, sounds great, feels great

    Disadvantages Disadvantages slightly repetitive

    Mercenaries, in my experience, is a very fun and enjoyable game, if a little bit repetitive. You play as one of three mercenaries sent in to a fictionalized north korea where practically the whole world has invaded and want to stake their claim to it. You'll be able to choose from quite a range of weaponry including AK's M4's heavy machine guns, grenades and much more. You'll also have access to some devastating firepower in the form of air strikes and bunker buster bombs, which is easily the game's most impressive sight. You'll also be able to drive numerous vehicles around the area's large ... more
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