Mercenaries 2: World in Flames

After promising gamers a massive open world, seamless co-op and tons of destructible environments, does Pandemic deliver? Billy Berghammer wrought havoc in the sequel to Mercenaries to find out.

Eh, I really must disagree. The aim was real heavy, and the weapons were so inaccurate that you couldn't get a quick kill. It seriously limited your strategic options, forcing you to play one way only. airstrikes usually needed a beacon to be thrown. Couldn't I have had a laser or satelite option, or even used the binoculars? Being close to your target kind of defeated the whole purpose of the airstrike. When you combine the other issues, you have a game that isn't even as good as the first.

Really, I'd have said to fry it. the game is obsessed with close combat, the only remotely usable weapons were the sniper rifles. Headshots were impossible to get (and thus a fast kill) from any sort of distance, and bullets for all weapons are slow and all are inncacurate. Airstrikes need to be SMOKE DESIGNATED!?! WTF?! Having to get close in DEFEATS the purpose of the damn thing in the first place! Also, what happened to stun grenades? This is like 3 steps back from mercs 1 (to 1998).