Mercs Franchise Lives Within EA
Mercenaries 2: World in FlamesPandemic may be through, but that doesn't mean their Mercenaries series won't carry on.
EA vice president of corporate communications, Jeff Brown, had stressed that the "Pandemic brand would live on" within the publisher, which is why we'll soon see The Saboteur, Pandemic's latest - and last - project. And now, according to GameSpot, EA has let the name "Mercs, Inc." slip, along with a leaked trailer that is no longer viewable by the public. EA senior VP and group manager Nick Earl said, "a core creative team is forging new ground and conceptualizing new ideas" for the franchise in question. The video you can't see now, as found early by Superannuation, featured both competitive and cooperative multiplayer action, a bunch of never-before-seen characters, and a whole lot of crazy action (as one might expect). Oddly enough, the end of the video says the project had been canceled but evidently, that's not the case and we expect to hear something official on "Mercs, Inc." some time soon. This is a series that was always entertaining if not extremely well polished, and we all know it has a boatload of potential.
As for The Saboteur, that's just one big question mark for us. It's one of those titles that could take everyone by surprise with its quality and playability but on the other hand... Eh, why be negative?
11/25/2009 12:26:36 PM Ben Dutka
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Kowhoho
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009 @ 9:53:37 PM
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009 @ 11:44:37 PM
except this one time i was doing the wench training mission trying to get the 1 billion dollar baby trophy.
than this wanker joined my game, hopped into the other chopper and kept running into me.
than this other time i was trying to capture HVTs for the trophy so this wanker joins my game and kills my targets.
another reason why i dont play online.
99.9999999999% of players are 10 year old brats there just to piss the sh*t out of you.
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Alienange
Thursday, November 26, 2009 @ 7:43:04 AM
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009 @ 1:20:30 PM
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009 @ 5:47:48 PM
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shaydey77
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 @ 7:30:49 PM
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Only thing i didnt like was that after i finished the game..i found out that to get platinum trophy you had to save all the vips. Dont have time to replay with college and the world of new games piling up to be played.
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Alienange
Thursday, November 26, 2009 @ 7:51:04 AM
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009 @ 11:40:28 PM
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nothing is more satisfying than sprinting away from a nuclear bomb dropped onto your mansion.
i think i threw up in yet, o wait im not in jet im on couch.
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BikerSaint
Thursday, November 26, 2009 @ 2:19:43 AM
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But I didn't get much playtime with it due to one of my used game shopping sprees at that time.
I think I bought about 15/20 games & there was a couple in that bundle that I wanted to play even more than M2, so I only sampled the beginning of it.
I do need to finish this one too, but so many games....so little time.*sigh*
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Thursday, November 26, 2009 @ 1:37:27 PM
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p.s.
"Happy Thanksgiving World!"*
*(translation): "Sleep thee well child, for there will be bountiful sales the morning after..."
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009 @ 12:43:53 PM