Mercenaries 2: World in Flames (2008) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Mercenaries 2: World in Flames

Mercenaries 2: World in Flames is an explosive open-world action game set in a massive, highly reactive, war-torn world. A power-hungry tyrant messes with Venezuela's oil supply, sparking an invasion that…

70 31 August 2008

What Mercenaries 2: World in Flames is

Mercenaries 2: World in Flames is a shooter game developed by Behaviour Interactive and released in 2008. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Zero.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Mercenaries 2: World in Flames is an action-adventure video game developed by Pandemic Studios and published by Electronic Arts for PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Windows. It is the sequel to 2005's Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction. The game is a third-person shooter with an open world, set in a fictionalized war-torn Venezuela. The game's primary objective is to assassinate the President of Venezuela whose betrayal of the protagonist mercenary acted as a stepping stone to their current position.

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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, open world and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Mercenaries 2: World in Flames holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 37% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 5 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 66, across 67 votes.

What it launched against

Mercenaries 2: World in Flames launched on 31 August 2008, within three weeks of The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, Rock Band 2 and The Witcher: Enhanced Edition. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, Rock Band 2, The Witcher: Enhanced Edition.

Cheats and codes

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