awesome game disappointing review by gamespot.
The funny thing about how reviewers tend to complain about repetitiveness of game which they are not good at but completely forget about it when the game suits their difficulty. For example GTAIV is one the most repetitive game ever created as each mission requires to kill someone or fetch someone and that game last for 100hrs compared to mercenaries 30hrs. The bugs that the reviewers mentioned was non existent when i played it. There are bugs in the game but the bugs don't really effect the game. some of the bugs that i have experienced , actually help me to complete my contract. Well if you want to compare bugs than GTAIV has plenty. One of the bugs that i experienced in GTAIV caused me to replay the mission again. AI in the game seem to pretty intelligent to me . Compared to GTAIV the AI in Mercenaries is definitely smarter. For example in Mercenaries , if you leave things like helicopter the enemy will hijack it and use it against you. that kind AI can't be seen in GTAIV especially in the shooting where your shooters have to survive in order to complete the mission. The AI refuses to follow your instructions like to run away or hide and as result they die.
the point is that the game shouldn't get a bad review if you personally hate the game because you are not good at it because there are people who believe what the reviewers say and tend not to buy the game.