Mercenaries 2

[gravedigger]

Be sure once you convert the .flac files into .wavs that you convert them to .AAC or .mp3 before you put them on your ipod. The .wav files will be way too big otherwise.

[Abraham Smashington]

Online co-op? Nooo, I promised myself I wouldn't buy anything until Rock Band 2!

From IGN:

The game is set in the host player's world and all missions benefit him. The other player earns cash and lovely prizes to bring back to his own game, but won't get to progress their game any further. But they do get to have a witness when they blow s*** up.

Mercs 2 doesn't scale, making some of the tougher missions much easier to tackle with a friend. In fact, Mercenaries 2 seems balanced for two players more so than one. Especially since, in co-op, your teammate can revive you if you die. They just have to get near you, hit the proper button, and you're back on your feet. In single-player, death kills you, so to speak. It helps to communicate, as one man's explosion can often be his friend's untimely demise. With two people calling in air strikes, these can get pretty crazy on screen. There's something eerily poetic about laying a hail of bullets on an enemy as your face is awash in the glow of a nuclear detonation.
Co-op is a powder keg of goodness. There is some occasional slowdown when there are big explosions and I hit a few moments of lag in each of my sessions. Overall, it's a good, if not perfect, experience.

Hopefully it's the goods.

[Abraham Smashington]

This game is fun, unpolished, but fun. Stuff goes boom, it looks pretty, and then I make more stuff go boom.


That's my review from playing for an hour. Now I go pass out.

Too much liquor.

[Abraham Smashington]

Played for a few hours this morning. Fun fucking game, a bit confusing at times since alot of the factions look the same. Turns out I'm just pissing everyone off as I lay down air strikes. haha.

[Abraham Smashington]

And one strike so far, can't join a multiplayer game with friends. I can join with randoms, but fuck that.

[Nathan]

When I tried to get the first one to play on my 360 it gave me an error message, so I gave it to my old roomie who had my old xbox. Damn it! Gotta get that back!

[Nathan]

This game is a dissapointment. Glad I rented instead of buying.

[Abraham Smashington]

I already sold mine to pay off Fallout 3.

[Nathan]

How is that?

[Nathan]

Guess it's not out yet. Must be why there is no thread for it.

[Abraham Smashington]

Exactly. Haha.