Mercenaries 2 - Don't own it? GO GET IT! Like GTAIV in a war torn Venezuela, South America and it is BLAST!
The story is compelling, voice acting top notch and the replay value high because even if you finish the campaign, the war of factions rages on so you can continue to raise hate and discontent long after you have completed the campaign, and CO-OP MULTIPLAYER is a laughing fun-fest!
This has got to be one of the most fun, yet bizarre games I have ever played. It is a complete mixed bag of a total 10 in gameplay. The environments are totally destructible, and I DO mean TOTALLY (think GTAIV, but actually destroying high rise buildings and watching them tumble to the ground in gigantic explosions of dust and flying concrete! - watchout!) Yet the enemies are very repetitve in their dialog and you'll quickly want to shoot one of your allies if they don't shut-up.
This is where it gets hairy: gameplay is 10, yet the AI is about a 5 or even lower, but the high gameplay value causes you to actually overlook the bad AI knowing that in the next version they'll get it right (we hope).
Aside from the fully rendered partial city of Venezuela (all totally destructible) the physics are amazing, in fact they show off their physics, but it's like a group of geniuses came up with the extraordinary complex game play system of finding fuel, money, ammo etc., but a whole other group of chimps programmed the AI.
The graphics are not as highly detailed as in GTAIV or Crysis (I use those two games as examples because Venezuela is both jungle and metropolitan), but at the same time, you forgive that fact because in neither of the aforementioned games are the environments totally destructible. There are bomb proof buildings in both games, but NOTHING and I mean NOTHING is bomb proof in Merc2.
The explosions are EXTRAORDINARY, the munitions are INSANE, from calling in a lowly 500lb bombing run to a satellite guided munition, fuel air, cluster bombs and even the "Mother Of All Bombs" the MOAB and more. There is nothing more exciting then seeing all this fire power raining down and buildings, including highrises tumbling to the ground.
Vehicles? You name it, you got it from muscle cars, jeeps, monster (big wheel) cars, military gun trucks, sports cars, luxury cars, gunboats, patrol boats, jet skis, helicopters and more and they all sound right.
If you can forgive the weak AI you're gonna have a BLAST with this game. To describe it in one word FUN. In two words, FUN AND EXCITING.