Mercenaries 2 officially delayed News
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Pandemic boss Josh Resnick has said that Mercenaries 2 has been officially delayed until the first quarter of next year.
Rumours of a slip have been flying ever since retailers forecast it earlier this month, although both publisher and developer have remained quiet until now.
The reason, according to Pandemic, is that the game simply isn't up to scratch just yet.
"We don't want to slop out a game just to meet a deadline," Resnick told IGN. "Some companies rush products out to meet that big holiday deadline for the massive gift-giving season, and we would rather make sure that every corner of our vast, open-world, highly explosive gameplay is completely polished. We owe that to Mercenaries fans."
And apparently that's that; there's no development problem with one platform, no last minute features to be added - just bug-swatting and elbow grease to go.
The delay will also not affect Pandemic's other title, World War II stealth title Saboteur.
Mercenaries 2 is in development for PS3, 360, PC and PS2.
Head over to our our Mercenaries 2 gamepage to see how it's all shaping up.
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GamesConnoisseur
24/09/07 @ 11:58
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Also there is a matter of Halo 3, Half Life 2 Orange Box and so on!
Still plenty to do on X360 and PC until the release, probably not that good news for PS3 only owners as release schedule a bit more quieter. Haze and UT3 though gonna rock our world! |
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rhinoxious
24/09/07 @ 12:11
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Saw a demo of this running last week and the pop up was horrendous, so they've obviously got a way to go yet.
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"We don't want to slop out a game just to meet a deadline," Resnick told IGN. "Some companies rush products out to meet that big holiday deadline for the massive gift-giving season, and we would rather make sure that every corner of our vast, open-world, highly explosive gameplay is completely polished. We owe that to Mercenaries fans."
Translation: We've seen what else is coming out this xmas, and even setting the game in a third world country that's currently being demonised by the US media isn't going give us half a chance against the competition... |
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Good news that the developers aren't rushing Mercenaries 2 because the footage I saw of the game from this year's E3 looked decidely flaky with a large, empty looking world, tearing, slowdown and an erratic draw distance. I'd crossed it off my list to be honest but hopefully the delay will make it a far better game. Anyway, there are far too many other games coming out this side of Christmas so I'm actually glad when I hear that a game is being delayed into next year! LOL
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rhinoxious
24/09/07 @ 15:40
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It was on a PC, I don't know what the spec of the PC was, but I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have demoed it on anything less than a monster rig.
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