A beta version that cost 60 dollars to play test.
User Rating: 6.5 | Mercenaries 2: World in Flames X360
What really pulls this game down is the bugs and it is so riddled with bugs that it feels like a test copy. Blow apart a building and the enemies that were inside still shoot at you from underground. Cut scenes have missing audio. Choppers, crates and parts of things stick to the sky as if they are glued there. I don't believe the game was ever polished. Manual saves are a waste of time because you can't go back and reload them. There isn't even an option to load a manually saved game. When the game is running smooth it is fun to play. But the bugs are ever present right up until the end. There is no new game plus to let you test out your acquired toys, but you can run around and screw with the remaining factions.
Over at the pandemic website forum there is a sticky topic where you can post the bugs you have encountered to the developers so they can "address them." This may be the new form of game testing. You buy a retail beta and report problems to the developers website. They "address them" and then offer a patch for 1,200 MS points over live.
Pandemic let the players down on this one. Took their money and ran. The game does not deserve praise. 
