Mercs 2: Better looking on PS3?
Brand new info on Pandemic's outrageous actioner - plus new shots
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Zamkoff was also keen to fill us in on what he called Pandemic's "punk moment". Thanks to EA's ties with Massive - the in-game advertising company - Mercs 2 is filled with advertising billboards populated with real-world ads (or government propaganda). But don't sneer in disgust too quickly.One appealing mission involves the mass destruction of such captalist iconography, providing a welcome opportunity to decimate swathes of real-world in-game ads. Très punk, non?
Destruction is Pandemic's watchword. Zamkoff tells us that he wants every gamer to be able to stand on a mountainside, see a 80-storey building or towering power plant or enormous statue and think "Can I blow that up? Yes I can!". Disappointingly, our Bob the Builder reference was lost on the American producer, leaving the room in awkward silence. Sigh.
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Ben Richardson is a former Staff Writer for Official PlayStation 2 magazine and a former Content Editor of GamesRadar+. In the years since Ben left GR, he has worked as a columnist, communications officer, charity coach, and podcast host – but we still look back to his news stories from time to time, they are a window into a different era of video games.


