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Mercenaries 2: Alot of people are gonna die...
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Late, but that's the way I did it for the second ace.
It was a bitch to snipe down but the mission was a cakewalk after I got it down.
Wow. I never knew you could do that. Definitely would've come in handy.
Worse than that, the skin just drops over the top of the existing character model so he runs like a girl. It's pretty disturbing watching harrison ford running around with a wiggle in his booty.
I enabled subtitles, but yeah. I was honestly kind of disappointed with Peter Stormare's performance, and I like him as an actor. he sounds a bit better in the Mercenaries 2 trailer, I think.
I ALMOST ruined Mercs 1 for myself that way though. Going with the "If it feels good do it, even if you shouldnt" attitude of Mercs, i found myself starting every game session with securing a helicopter somehow (preferably one of those Apaches in the northern map).
It started to make the game stale, but it was just so much easier than driving everywhere. Until i recognized that driving through battle zones is totally badass.
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=151083
There's some screenshots, too.
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I remember in the first there were missions and cards, weren't there? I just can't remember if any cards have been mentioned in previews or suchlike.
Missions I don't remember being that interesting, but cards were always great.
I did that, too. Step one, steal humvee. Step 2, drive to South Korean airbase. Step 3, steal Commanche knock-off.
Eventually I realized just how goddamned cheap that was, so I'd order a blackhawk helicopter when I started a play session...then I'd fly to the airbase and steal a Commanche knock-off. Yeah, it was still basically the same thing, but the point is I DID PAY FOR A HELICOPTER...just not the one I ended up using.
No cards. They're doing something new.
D:
It's still got the core concept, it's just that the random dumbasses to grab won't be organized as the deck of 52. From what I heard, each organization you can take jobs from will have their own organizational system for bounties.
Hmm... I'm still skeptical.
It's Super Effective!
HOLY SHIT YEAH.
New developer walkthrough!
So pretty.
Grappling hooks!
Ladders!
Apparantly customizable vehicles which includes a dune buggy-thing strapped with 4 rocket launchers!
Jet strike beacons which you could throw onto vehicles and suicide the thing into enemy territory? Of course!
Jennifer Mui being sexily covert? If you're into that sort thing than yes!
This is going to be the bestest game ever.
At least it's just "Mash a button for a second or two" instead of "Simon Says: The Flash edition!".
Definintely a day one purchase for me.
Oh it's such a nice day, I think I'll go out the window! Whoa!
Totally. Even just based on the first one.
Although Farcry 2 or whatever it's called sounds like it's going to turn into some sort of delicious hybrid of Mercenaries and STALKER, so that's got my interest-o-meter registering at piqued too.
It's still lazy and anachronistic. And it breaks immersion. Once I've adjusted to the quirks of a game's control scheme, I don't like it to call attention to itself with onscreen prompts or stupid little minigames.
Ain't gonna be that annoying.
Going up and pressing Y works well enough for GTAIV, and that's a game specifically about hijacking vehicles. "Being different" is a shitty reason for needlessly complicating a game mechanic.
Anyway, I really don't see how you can find it complicated. It's not even a bloody QTE. YOU initiate it, for god sakes. It's not as if it's random.
Yeah, but the breaking the window is automatic, and the hotwiring button press is optional -- it simply lets you start the car about a half-second faster.
I'M A TWITTER SHITTER
I also hope grappling isn't as easy as it looks.
CUSTOMIZABLE VEHICLES.
Ding Ding we have a winner!
The vehicle in the video did have a big honkin rocket launcher on it, after all.
Well, performance would be one of the later things to be fixed, plus do remember this is internet streaming video, which is usually 30fps at most.