Mercenaries 2

[Melf]

I had read earlier that we were only going to get to play with the Swede, but that interview there gives the impression that we'll have 4 players to play with instead of the previous 3 last game. I hope this is true. I wasn't a big fan of the Swede.

IGN: Please tell us about the characters. That won't reveal too much more, right? The first game gave us three characters, and Mattias was my favorite. They're all returning, right?

Jonathan Zamkoff: All I can say is that all three of our favorite characters from the first game are returning in the sequel (plus one more). They're much higher detail; Mattias is even more of a bad-ass than he was the first time around, and we even had a contest in which the winner created a tattoo that wound up being skinned onto Mattias's arm. There will also be some prizes revealed later in development.

Aww yeeah!

Such a pleasant surprise. One less reason to buy a PS3...where is that checklist?

Seriously. Every month the PS3 loses another exclusive.

[Detour]

In-game footage.

Jesus fuck this is going to be awesome.

[bVork]

More varied and interesting environments, a city, and the same destructible buildings. I'm sold.

[Rumpy]

Yeah, this game might take over the world. It looks phenomenal.

[Error]

Aww yeeah!

I'd like to be as thrilled as you but returning doesn't guarentee playable. Of course, having said that I don't care if its the swede I'm playing as, that looks fantastic.

[arjue]

Can't wait to see this running silky.

[bVork]

There's a 2-part walkthrough of a mission over at gametrailers:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player.p...e=mov&id=17596
http://www.gametrailers.com/player.p...e=mov&id=17598

Looks pretty cool. I'm actually glad to see QTEs showing up when hijacking a vehicle. It was downright funny how difficult it was to take down a tank in the first game, compared to the relative ease of just hijacking it.

Seems to be running fairly nicely, despite the "PRE-ALPHA SOFTWARE" disclaimer at the bottom.

EDIT: There's a lot of popup in the second half when driving the tank. I hope that's fixed by the time the game is released.

[arjue]

I'm sure it will be.

[Space Pirate Roberts]

Venezuelan advocacy group trying to cock-block this game's release... and enlisting Bono to do it.

Turns out Bono's on the publisher's board of directors, so I guess this makes sense.

[Detour]

The same thing happened about 8 months ago. It's lol.