Thread: Mercenaries 2...

Releases tomorrow and is available as a digital download from the EA Store. I've got it pre-ordered, mostly for rampant co-op destruction. I played the hell out of the first one, so I'm looking forward to this. Anyone else planning on checking it out?

I played the living shit out of the 1st during my sophomore year of highschool when I had 0 access to any computers. I wound up getting like, 90% of all the things spread out around the world... Several hundred million bucks from all my play throughs, and how many other things... I'm definitly gonna get Merc 2 if I can. The graphics look infinitely better, and the general play of the game looks dramatically improved...

And, co-op! :10

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/38900.html

Heh, I just read an article you can probably find easy enough on the net that says Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez is accusing the US government of releaseing m2 as propaganda in preperation for an invasion of his country (venezuela being featured in m2) you guys need tofind that, it's some funny stuff

Originally Posted by agentazn303

This game is bomb. Playing through as Chris Jacobs right now, the black dude.

Its kinda got a tropic thunder robert downey jr feel to it.

Wait, you got a copy? I was told by Gamestop the release date was pushed back to the 4th. What platform you get it for?

here's the text from that article I told you about

Venezuelan uproar over coup video game
Aug 30, 2008 12:29 PM

A video game depicting mercenaries storming Venezuela, which has been criticized in the oil-rich South American country as a blueprint for an invasion, will be released by a US company this weekend.

The release is likely to anger allies of President Hugo Chavez, a Washington foe, who has in the past threatened to cut off oil exports to the United States.

The game, Mercenaries 2: World in Flames, will be released on Sunday by a division of Electronic Arts Inc and is set in a "fully destructible Venezuela," the company said in a news release.

"A power hungry tyrant uses Venezuela's oil supply to overthrow the government and turns the country into a war zone," the company says of the game on its Web site.

In 2006, when the game was first announced, lawmakers from Chavez's coalition called it an example of a US government-inspired propaganda campaign against Chavez that could even help lay the psychological groundwork for an actual invasion.

"All the controversy around this is kind of comical," Electronic Arts spokesman Jeff Brown said. "At the end of the day you have to remind yourself it's a damned video game."

The government on Friday said it could not immediately comment on the game's release.

Chavez, who first tried to take power by force in 1992, was elected to office in 1998. Relations with the United States deteriorated dramatically after Washington initially welcomed a short-lived coup against him.

The former soldier, who is popular among the poor for spending the proceeds of an oil boom on social programmes, frequently accuses the United States, Venezuela's main oil client, of plotting to overthrow him.

He has replaced aging military equipment with billions of dollars of Russian weapons including fighter jets and plans to strengthen the country's reservist army to repel, he says, a potential US invasion.

A trailer for the game, set in 2010, features mercenaries with American accents storming oil installations during a bloody coup by a tyrant called Ramon Solano.

"It is time the Venezuelan people stop paying for the greed of foreign interests, we will make them pay dearly for our oil. From this day forward everybody pays," the character says before shots of helicopter gunships and tanks attacking familiar Venezuelan landscapes.

Chavez has nationalised oil projects owned by US companies like Exxon and ConocoPhillips.