Mercenaries 3: No Limits<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction<\/em> was released in January of 2005 for the Original Xbox and PlayStation 2. Developed by Star Wars: Battlefront<\/em> developer Pandemic Studios it was centered around a trio of playable mercenary fighters and your main goal was to be the part, by doing this you would be able to prevent a nuclear war. The game was rightfully praised for the utter chaos you would be able to cause. I spent many of my time at Blockbuster renting this game over and over and over. You had the ability to steal military vehicles and in turn could use them to destroy opposing vehicles, buildings, etc. I have very vivid memories of going to a friends house (RIP) and taking turns calling in carpet bombs and other tactical strikes to take out enemies. The game was fun and plenty of replayability packed into it but there was something missing, that missing feature would be introduced in the sequel a few years later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mercenaries 2: World in Flames would be released in late August of 2008 and was a bit of a mixed bag as there are many problems with the game that were never at least in *my* opinion properly fixed. These include graphical hiccups due to the engine which had been in use for nearly a decade first appearing in Battlezone: II in ’99. So the Zero engine was clearly showing it’s age. Another issue would be with the expected bread and butter of the game which is the destruction element of vehicles, buildings, etc. When you and a friend would be causing chaos and explosions the game would stutter and have the previously mentioned texture pop-in so I initial]y walked away from the game once said friend “died”. Out of loyalty to Pandemic and their legacy I purchased Mercenaries 1 once it was eligible for purchase on Xbox One backwards compatibility. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Now onto the would be third game in the series by Pandemic as we do not speak of Mercs Inc. on this site. During one of EA’s early years of hell following the release of new Intellectual Properties such as Dead Space, Army of Two, and Mirror’s Edge, former EA exec John Riccitielo more or less professed his love for the Mercenaries series and he would have no issues with the series going on for multiple installments. Going all the way to a tenth installment. This didn’t come to pass as Riccitielo would go on to leave Electronic Arts and Mercenaries would stop at 2 with Pandemic’s closure in the year of hell of 09. Based on Unseen64’s post on Mercenaries 3 which you can read here<\/a>, it is presumed that the game would have been set in Cuba in 2017 and you are playing as, most likely, a placeholder for a character redesign and the gameplay demo includes a cut-scene that is placeholder as well so here it is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/losharrow.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/05\/mercenaries-3-ps3-xbox-360-cancelled.jpg\")
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