Mercenaries 2: World in Flames

Mercenaries 2 for the Xbox 360 (and PS2, PS3, and PC) is an incredibly fun action game that expands on the scale of destruction and explosives set by its predecessor, but a myriad of flaws in its presentation holds it back from achieving greatness. Playing as a mercenary in Venezuela, you run around looking for certain targets to either kill or capture. How you go about doing this is entirely up to you. If you want to take a tank and blow away a company of soldiers you... Read more

Fun game but filled with bugs

The reason I intially bought Mercenaries 2 was because it was $20 and I was getting bored with a lot of my other games. When I played the first mission the controls seemed pretty solid and the gameplay was fun. After I beat the the first mission and got more freedom in the open world. Vehicles and weopons were varied and fun to use but most of the world looked the same. Now on to the story. Basically it's a story of revenge. A guy sets yo up on a mission then betrays you... Read more

The first was better.

Other than the slightly improved graphics. The first game in this series was by far a better game; there was much more variety in the missions. I can only think of maybe 5 or 6 truly unique missions in this game. Everything else is just the same mission with different scenery. I liked the fact that taking over a vehicle wasn't as easy as just pressing a single button. Another nice touch was the fact that your standing doesn't automatically go down when you kill someone... Read more

Haven't crashed my hardware so much since Windows ME.

Fun: First of all the online achievements are unattainable for me, i have to physically disconnect my network from my Xbox to get past the main menu's attempt to connect to EA's Merc 2 server. Secondly the controls for the tanks will make anyone who is a Call of Duty fan want to scream. Lastly after repeated attempts to correct my crashing Xbox, (profile changes, Zune video software removal, praying to the lord of games) I made the fullish attempted to enter to Pandemic... Read more

mercenaries 2

this game is a good rental game. it has its problems,but its just plain fun to play. the multilayer is not the best. all it is is you joining another players game and completing missions with them, or someone joining your game and completing missions with you. Read more