Mercs 2 dev admits "huge debt" to GTA News
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Pandemic Studios has acknowledged that openworld action game Mercenaries 2 owes "a huge debt to GTA", but doesn't believe that players have to buy one and not the other.
"GTA is such a phenomenon; so huge that I don't think anyone is really a competitor to GTA in a manner of speaking," creative director Cameron Brown told Eurogamer in an interview published today.
"I guess we're a competitor in the sense that we're in the openworld genre, but I would actually call it more of a colleague. That's what we aspire to be. And not just in terms of sales - everyone working in the business would love to sell those kind of numbers - but more because we owe a huge debt to GTA."
"I don't get the sense that someone who's going to buy GTA IV is not going to buy Mercs 2; I don't think it's an either/or decision for anyone," he added, admitting that he is "really, really fascinated to play [GTA IV] and see what they've got up their sleeves." We have a feeling he's not alone.
For more from Brown, check out our exclusive Mercenaries 2: World in Flames interview.
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JohnnyWashnGo
17/04/08 @ 10:47
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Another article that appears twice on the RSS feed at 'http://rss1.mediafed.com/feed/eurogamer/...
Why does it keep doing that? |
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Another article that appears twice on the RSS feed at 'http://rss1.mediafed.com/feed/eurogamer/...
Why does it keep doing that? I think it's because they keep changing the headline to try and make it fit on one line. Though it still doesn't here, and why they can't test it before releasing it live I don't know. |
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Triggerhappytel
17/04/08 @ 14:08
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This is either "Please buy our game!" or "EA told me to suck up to GTA/R*/T2 for when the inevitable buyout happens".
I enjoyed the first Mercs, but it needed a lot lot more variety. I will be interested in the second, but it will probably be a rental first for me. |
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