Customer Reviews
Like no other - By: Frederick Graham, 15 Jan 2008 
Ive played this game through dozens of times, unmissable - like grand theft auto with a good storyline- a must buy for any gamer.
One of the best Xbox games ever made! - By: Tracy Okeeffe, 23 Dec 2006 
I got this game for my birthday after begging & begging my parents for it. I started off playing it years ago on a demo game controlling a swedish guy with a weird hair style & i thought"wow!". It was brilliant! And when I unwrapped it on my birthday i pegged it downstairs & shoved itin the drive!
It starts off with you choosing a character out of a lady or two men, & then you start the game. Yourin an aeroplane & you have to pick up your grenades, PDA & your gun(Carbine) & then you getin a jeep & fall out of the plane. You have to drive to the allied HQ & sign a contract to get a mission. You have to capture a guy & then blow up these artillery strikes with some bombs you get given. And then you get to go get contracts from other countries, like the russian maffia, china & south korea. When you do the right amount of contracts for a country, you have to try & get the king, queen or jack of the rank your on. When you get all three, you go on a really special mission to get the ace of your rank. There are four ranksin the game, clubs, diamonds hearts & spades, you progress to the next rank once you have caught the ace of your current rank. The main bad guy of the game is General Song, & he is the ace of spades. You get to go on a mission to catch him at the end of the game.
Also, the reason i wanted the game, is because there are a sea of weapons, grenades & air strikes, which once you have unlocked you can buy any of the ones of that are available. Or if you see a gun on the floor you can pick it up & drop your old weapon, you can carry two guns at a time.
But my favorite is the vehicles. Mainly, if you can see it, you can drive it, or fly it unless its a plane. You've got vehicles like jeeps, tanks,
hellicopters, even civillian volvo's! You can buy these when you unlock them, or if you see one you can getin & go! Although most hellicopters you see arein the air you can get them if they are low. All you need is a sniper, just shoot the pilot & the thing will come spiralling down to earth, but try not to let it landin water cos then if your dumb enough & you want it bad, you'll jumpin the water & die fast. They don't have unlimited life so it will probably blow up any way.
Overall a brilliant game, the only way i could improve it was by giving it multiplayer, then it could just about reach the rank of the halo series.
INTENSE AND AMAZING - EXCEPTIONAL - By: H. R. Trigg, 14 Jul 2006 MERCENARIES
This game is one of the best I've ever played.
Choose from one of 4 characters, & earn money by accepting missions from different factions (ie: locate & destroy the missile launchers), & along the way look out for enemy agents to dispose of, (don't kill the locals!) earning extra cash to buy more weapons & help.
Not only are the graphics stunning, the detail extraordinary, the gameplay exciting, but you are not limited to what you can do or where you can go (Ie: i had to destroy a mobile radar jammer but had run out of bombs, so i hijacked it & drove it at speed into the river); blow up anything you want up, control any vehicle you come across (helicopters, tanks, missile launchers, even airport trucks), massive variations of weaponary including satellite controlled bombing, stealth, cluster bombs & so much more.
This game is immense & WELL worth the money. I'd have willingly paid full price for this & had value for money. It has a huge landscape filled with detail - get bored, then go exploring (grab a helicopter)!. At later stages you are dropped off (by copter) to other unexplored areas - the game keeps going & going. LONGEVITIY - 5 / PLAYABILITY - 5 / FUN - 5 / GRAPHICS - 5
Great game - By: , 04 Apr 2006 Whoah! What a game, I've completed it 4 times but I keep coming back to it!
The landscape is MASSIVE, & its completely free roaming, go where you want, blow up what you want. There is a constant fog, which is obviously covering pop up, & this can be a problem with the sniper, as you can see where your target is, (A yellow circle), but due to pop up you can't shoot them as they don't appear at this range.
The AI is fairly good, but you can sneek up behind it & it won't notice till you touch it.
The vehicles are great, you can get helicopters, tanks, jeeps, sports car & trucks. All of which are great to drive. Quite a few have extra turrets for allies & some you can control a weapon yourself, like a tank of helicopter.
The cream on the cake, The Merchant of Menace. AKA The Mafia. Wherever you are (Unless your near a radar jammer) You can order supplies, vehicles & airstrikes for a price. However you cant order tanks or heavy vehicles.
Aloong with capturing the deck of cards (generals, scientists & soldiers from North Korea), you can accept contracts from the Allies, the Chinese, the South Koreans & the Mafiain return for intelligence & cash. They are great fun, & you usually get free supplies/airstrikes/vehicles with them.
Allin all a superb game.
mercenaries: playground of destruction - By: Tom Roberts, 18 May 2005 i have played the demo of this game & it i really good there is so much stuff to do like fly choppers & drive tanks, jeeps everything! The best is to callin the big bombs to blow lodes of stuff up.
