New Mercenaries 2: World in Flames Screens

Electronic Arts sent us some new screens for Mercenaries 2: World in Flames, the new title in the franchise for the PC, Ps2, Ps3, and Xbox 360. The open-world action game will be situated in Venezuela after a tyrant interferes with the country’s oil supply. Developed by Pandemic Studios, World in Flames is a sequel to the popular Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction.

“While the original Mercenaries’ high-octane, go anywhere, do anything and blow the crap out of everything style was a hit with gamers, the whole experience was screaming to run on next-generation game systems,” explains Pandemic CEO Andrew Goldman. “And while we’re building on the core mercenary experience we created for the original, we’ve taken full advantage of next-gen technology to offer a more richly detailed, reactive, living world than gamers have ever seen before.”

Features:

* Cooperative Multiplayer!- Play the main Mercenaries 2 campaign with the help of your friends. Jump in and out of a game at any time!

* Enhanced Destruction! – Bring buildings teaming with enemy soldiers down section by section, topple an overpass with C4 to stop an oncoming enemy vehicular assault, fire off an RPG at a balcony and watch as it crashes on unsuspecting enemies below – in Mercenaries 2, destruction isn’t just cool to look at, you can use it to your advantage!

* A massive, reactive, and completely unscripted game world! – The world of Mercenaries 2 is larger than all of the maps of the previous Mercenaries combined and is jam-packed full of colorful characters and environments.

* Build your own Private Military Company! – Increase and customize your support options by recruiting other mercenaries you meet in the game!

* A Mercenaries’ Paradise! – Each faction has plenty of work for you, from small pick-up jobs to elaborate, multi-objective missions. The world of Mercenaries 2 offers over one hundred unique tasks you can take on – if you’re interested.

* Tired of driving? – Take over landing zones in the world and instantly travel from place to place!

* If you can’t beat them, steal from them! – Don’t want to pay for a Bunker Buster? No problem – every faction has tons of fuel and munitions just waiting for the “resourceful” mercenary to acquire. Just make sure that Bunker Buster doesn’t blow up when you start getting shot at!

* No Deadly Water! – Don’t worry about drowning ever again: use watercraft or swim to traverse the oceans, rivers and lakes of Mercenaries 2.

* Cool new toys! – Dozens of weapons, vehicles and support options are available for to use to blow the crap out of everything! Use the new grappling hook to latch on to flying vehicles and commandeer them in the sky!

* Work for the highest bidder! – Clients will offer you money, information and other resources in exchange for your services – provided you haven’t done anything to piss them off!

Mercenaries 2: World in Flames is slated for a Winter 2007 release. Check out more screens here.