Mercs 2.. oh god.
i knew what i wanted with this game.
and watching videos with stunning visuals and awesome looking explosions got me super excited for this title.
I bought the game and ran into my room to pop it in.
got it in, played the first mission and ouch.
its like i was playing the old mercs with new graphics.
maybe a tree catching on fire and seeing a gate get blown to pieces is a upgrade, but the overall feel felt just like mercs 1. vehicles are nice, but when got on a motorcycle, i realized how terrible the physics are for this game. i can drive really fast, yeah, but once i hit a obstacle, i flew 40 feet in the air, landed on top of a tree and exploded.and when you fall off your bike, you land on your stumach with your legs bent completely back, then you instantly move to your back and get up. As far as crashes on a motorbike go, GTA4 hit the spot.
there is so much that this game could have done.
but the terrible physics take away from the gameplay. shoot a soldier with a tank from 5 feet away and he gets thrown to the ground a foot from where he stood. there are ragdolls but the dying animation when you shoot someone is generally the same. the ragdolls have no restraints, your leg could bend at the knee forward all the way till you touch your stumach with your toe. you also apparently have no spine.
if i shoot a rpg and it hits the ground, leaving bumps that look like terrain deformation, i expect the bumps to effect a car when it drives over it. but no, its just for show, the lumps in the ground arnt lumps at all, theyre just objects that you can pass through.
i wont go on, but this game fell terribly short of what i wanted to see come out of it in the next gen. maybe i was too hyped for it, but this was a terrible game for 60 bucks. wait for it to drop to at least 40.