Others are transparently slapdash efforts that have the stink of unseemly urgency about them. The PC version of Mercenaries 2 is both. EA have taken the stupid, ballsy fun of the console version, and done the absolute bare minimum to make World In Flames work on the PC platform.
Menus are demoralisingly navigated with the up and down arrows, and the keyboard control method is pretty much akin to eating mashed potato with a knife see 'Infamous conversion'. If you happen to own an Xbox controller, the game becomes a flawed, lunatic masterpiece. Mercenaries 2 kicks off with you doing a job for Roman Solano, a Venezuelan businessman, who asks you to free his friend, a general.
On executing this tutorial mission, you're double-crossed and thrown penniless and hungry for revenge, right into the middle of a military coup. Solano is taking control of a country full of oil - cue a weak quasipolitical plot full of stereotypical characters and political statements about as complex and controversial as "Aren't oil companies bastards? They each approach situations in a slightly different way, but for the most part your goal in any mission is to bring down a ton of ordnance onto particular targets.
You gain missions from different factions, be it Universal Petroleum generic American oil company , the People's Army of Venezuela the country's generic rebellious military types , or any of the other generic stereotypes. Their story-based missions usually boil down to blowing up a particular building, taking control of an outpost, or assassinating someone that is highlighted on the map screen. As a mercenary, you can attack these missions however you want to.
If you have a sniper rifle, you're able to assassinate a target from across a hill, and it's wonderfully satisfying to do so. If you'd rather run in, drop an indicator, and run hell for leather as an artillery strike obliterates the target and his entourage , that's also fine. You can even get a tank delivered, blow a hole in a wall, and then run the bastard over - it's up to you.
One of the most wonderful things about the game is how it really does let you finish a mission how you want to, even if it makes it a lot easier or more explosive. Even better is the contemporary orchestral soundtrack, which gives everything that edge of epic combat. Playing the game is like being in a high-budget action movie with explosions, cliches and stereotypes galore. You're paid with two currencies: money and oil. Internet Archive's 25th Anniversary Logo.
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