Ive played this game through dozens of times, unmissable - like grand theft auto with a good storyline- a must buy for any gamer.

I got this game for my birthday after begging and begging my parents for it. I started off playing it years ago on a demo game controlling a swedish guy with a weird hair style and i thought"wow!". It was brilliant! And when I unwrapped it on my birthday i pegged it downstairs and shoved it in the drive!

It starts off with you choosing a character out of a lady or two men, and then you start the game. Your in an aeroplane and you have to pick up your grenades, PDA and your gun(Carbine) and then you get in a jeep and fall out of the plane. You have to drive to the allied HQ and sign a contract to get a mission. You have to capture a guy and then blow up these artillery strikes with some bombs you get given. And then you get to go get contracts from other countries, like the russian maffia, china and south korea. When you do the right amount of contracts for a country, you have to try and get the king, queen or jack of the rank your on. When you get all three, you go on a really special mission to get the ace of your rank. There are four ranks in the game, clubs, diamonds hearts and spades, you progress to the next rank once you have caught the ace of your current rank. The main bad guy of the game is General Song, and he is the ace of spades. You get to go on a mission to catch him at the end of the game.

Also, the reason i wanted the game, is because there are a sea of weapons, grenades and air strikes, which once you have unlocked you can buy any of the ones of that are available. Or if you see a gun on the floor you can pick it up and drop your old weapon, you can carry two guns at a time.

But my favorite is the vehicles. Mainly, if you can see it, you can drive it, or fly it unless its a plane. You've got vehicles like jeeps, tanks,
hellicopters, even civillian volvo's! You can buy these when you unlock them, or if you see one you can get in and go! Although most hellicopters you see are in the air you can get them if they are low. All you need is a sniper, just shoot the pilot and the thing will come spiralling down to earth, but try not to let it land in water cos then if your dumb enough and you want it bad, you'll jump in the water and die fast. They don't have unlimited life so it will probably blow up any way.

Overall a brilliant game, the only way i could improve it was by giving it multiplayer, then it could just about reach the rank of the halo series.

MERCENARIES
This game is one of the best I've ever played.
Choose from one of 4 characters, and earn money by accepting missions from different factions (ie: locate and destroy the missile launchers), and along the way look out for enemy agents to dispose of, (don't kill the locals!) earning extra cash to buy more weapons and help.
Not only are the graphics stunning, the detail extraordinary, the gameplay exciting, but you are not limited to what you can do or where you can go (Ie: i had to destroy a mobile radar jammer but had run out of bombs, so i hijacked it and drove it at speed into the river); blow up anything you want up, control any vehicle you come across (helicopters, tanks, missile launchers, even airport trucks), massive variations of weaponary including satellite controlled bombing, stealth, cluster bombs and so much more.
This game is immense and WELL worth the money. I'd have willingly paid full price for this and had value for money. It has a huge landscape filled with detail - get bored, then go exploring (grab a helicopter)!. At later stages you are dropped off (by copter) to other unexplored areas - the game keeps going and going. LONGEVITIY - 5 / PLAYABILITY - 5 / FUN - 5 / GRAPHICS - 5

Whoah! What a game, I've completed it 4 times but I keep coming back to it!

The landscape is MASSIVE, and its completely free roaming, go where you want, blow up what you want. There is a constant fog, which is obviously covering pop up, and this can be a problem with the sniper, as you can see where your target is, (A yellow circle), but due to pop up you can't shoot them as they don't appear at this range.

The AI is fairly good, but you can sneek up behind it and it won't notice till you touch it.

The vehicles are great, you can get helicopters, tanks, jeeps, sports car and trucks. All of which are great to drive. Quite a few have extra turrets for allies and some you can control a weapon yourself, like a tank of helicopter.

The cream on the cake, The Merchant of Menace. AKA The Mafia. Wherever you are (Unless your near a radar jammer) You can order supplies, vehicles and airstrikes for a price. However you cant order tanks or heavy vehicles.

Aloong with capturing the deck of cards (generals, scientists and soldiers from North Korea), you can accept contracts from the Allies, the Chinese, the South Koreans and the Mafia in return for intelligence and cash. They are great fun, and you usually get free supplies/airstrikes/vehicles with them.

All in all a superb game.

i have played the demo of this game and it i really good there is so much stuff to do like fly choppers and drive tanks, jeeps everything! The best is to call in the big bombs to blow lodes of stuff up.