Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
| Mercenaries 2: World in Flames | |||
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| Studio |
Pandemic Studios Artificial Mind & Movement (PS2) LTI Gray Matter (PC) |
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| Publisher | Electronic Arts | ||
| Senior Developer | Cameron Brown | ||
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
 August 31, 2008 September 5, 2008 |
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| platform | PlayStation 2 , PlayStation 3 , Xbox 360 , Windows | ||
| genre | Third person shooter | ||
| Game mode | Single player , multiplayer | ||
| control | Keyboard , mouse , joystick | ||
| system advantages preconditions |
Windows XP / Vista Intel Pentium 4 / Athlon 64 X2, 1 GB RAM (Vista 2 GB), DVD-ROM drive, ATI Radeon X1600 or nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, sound card | ||
| medium | DVD-ROM , Blu-ray Disc | ||
| language | German and English | ||
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| information | EU version indexed | ||
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames is a video game from Pandemic Studios and the sequel to Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction and is available for PlayStation 2 , PlayStation 3 , Xbox 360 and PC .
Gameplay
The player steers a mercenary in a third-person perspective through a crisis area. He can do this on foot or on board various vehicles. In order to reach the end of the game, the player must carry out different tasks for different groups. He makes money in many ways to buy equipment and vehicles. In addition to the jobs, each group also offers various opportunities to acquire a job. How the player fulfills his orders is largely up to him. He moves freely on an open world map in Venezuela . During the course of the game, several parts of the game world are revealed and access is made possible, for example to the city of Caracas .
Game content
After you have chosen one of the three available mercenaries (Christopher Jacobs, Jennifer Mui, Mattias Nilsson), you start with the job of the billionaire Ramon Solano. In that one is supposed to free General Carmona after he was captured after a coup attempt. However, instead of being paid by his employer, he lets fire on the mercenary. You can escape with just one hit (in the buttocks) and swear revenge. Together with Fiona Taylor, who is already known from the first part, the player tries to use the war situation in Venezuela to finally liquidate Solano.
To do this, one takes Solano's villa, which then serves as the headquarters. Together with a helicopter pilot, an engineer and a fighter pilot, they form the "Private Military Company".
In the further course you try to get to Blanco first, who got you the job and then betrayed it, in order to finally capture or kill General Carmona and Ramon Solano. You work for Universal Petrolium (UP), a company that manages and owns the country's oil supplies, and the Peoples Liberation Army of Venezuela (PLAV), which fights the UP because they believe the oil belongs to the people of the country. Later the pirates join in , who rob and are at odds with every other party. (Similar to the Russian Mafia from the previous part of the game).
After Losing Blancos, the destruction of an oil rig and the unsuccessful attack on Solano's base of operations, a bunker in Angel Falls , the Allied Nations and China also intervene in the conflict. Both opponents are trying to secure the country's oil reserves with the help of the mercenary. They are only working towards an agreement to get a nuclear bunker buster (which is only owned by the US and China ) to destroy the bunker.
During the entire game it is possible to influence the mood of individual pages and the associated access to orders by eliminating or capturing HVT's (High Value Target) as well as the destruction of certain objects. In addition, you earn money in this way and get shop items unlocked from the respective page.
Another factor in the game is fuel. You need this for all air strikes and deliveries. You can get it from the tanks of destroyed vehicles, large storage tanks (500 units) or tanker trucks (5000 units).
As with the predecessor, there is also the option of getting various extras. In Mercenaries 2, you collect spare parts that enable you to buy vehicles and weapons from the engineer.
Approval for young people
For the USK approval, to the surprise of the manufacturer, no youth approval was initially granted. After a revision and re-examination, the game was later released again in a second version with a release from the age of 18.
Web links
- Official Mercenaries 2: World in Flames - Page ( Memento from April 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (multilingual)
- Mercenaries 2: World in Flames at MobyGames (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/mercenaries-2-world-in-flames_/credits
- ↑ Announcement No. 5/2015 on carrier media harmful to minors of April 22, 2015 ( BAnz AT April 30 , 2015 B5 )