Mercenaries 2 officially delayed

By Robert Purchese Published 24 September, 2007

Pandemic not rushing it.

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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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (15) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • L42yB #1 4 years ago

    First! :)

    I liked the first version of this game... it did get a bit boring after a while but being able to level the *entire* city was fun :D

  • GamesConnoisseur #2 4 years ago

    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!

  • Beano #3 4 years ago

    Blaim PS3... just to make sure.

  • Steroyd #4 4 years ago

    No blame PS2 lowest common denomenator, must be one bitch of a multi platform engine.

  • rhinoxious #5 4 years ago

    Saw a demo of this running last week and the pop up was horrendous, so they've obviously got a way to go yet.

  • BravoGolf #6 4 years ago

    When's Saboteur out?

  • Royal Fool #7 4 years ago

    rhinoxious: Which system was it for?

  • mkreku #8 4 years ago

    NO!! I was looking forward to playing this soon. Real soon! Damn.

  • Razz #9 4 years ago

    To say I can't wait for this game would be an understatemewnt. I fricking loved the first one! :) Which was strange as I usually hates these sort of games. :)

  • timpig #10 4 years ago

    "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...

  • Danoxth #11 4 years ago

    Blessing in disguise?

    One less game for my wallet to purchase this Christmas :)

  • urban #12 4 years ago

    yes yes they do.

  • Darren #13 4 years ago

    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

  • rhinoxious #14 4 years ago

    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.

  • Poorandugly #15 4 years ago

    Good man, don't come back until you have gotten it right...