Mercenaries Delayed, Screenshots Inside

NEWS - Wednesday, June 2, 2004

Mercenaries Delayed, Screenshots Inside

Lucasarts recently updated their website, and now Mercenaries is reflecting a "Early 2005" release date. This game is being developed by Pandemic Studios. Mercenaries is a third person action shooter, based in "the near future." North and South Korea are on the verge of a reunification, when forces from inside try to set things array. A one hundred million dollar bounty is placed on the head of a North Korean general and his top scientific and military advisor's. You are the head of a private mercenary outfit known as Executive Operation, your job is to collect those bounties.

Massive, open environments that are completely interactive. If you can see it, you can use it, steal it, drive it, fly it, or blow it up.

Explosive combat - you have the firepower (choose from a huge arsenal of realistic, military weapons) to lay waste to anything in sight.

Flexible gameplay - Use your weapons and your imagination to figure out how to complete missions in a variety of ways in non-scripted environments.

Dozens of different military and civilian vehicles, ranging from tanks, cars, trucks, helicopters, and more that can be commandeered at anytime and used for any purpose.

Some of the best graphics seen on the consoles - great weather and realistic explosion/destruction effects.

Based on the US military’s system of identifying a “most wanted” list of enemy targets in a playing card deck, players will use the playing card metaphor to identify missions and enemy targets. Take on missions from the different factions in order to gain intelligence and get new playing cards/targets and access to new areas.

Reputation system that is driven by an embedded journalist that records player actions, which determines how civilians and the various warring factions respond to the player.

Earn cash from different missions to buy better weapons and vehicles, or sell your vehicles and weapons on the black market.

Also don't miss the trailer for Mercenaries at Lucasarts Website
Source: http://www.lucasarts.com