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EA details Mercenaries 2: World in Flames

Electronic Arts and video game developer Pandemic Studios today announced they were producing Mercenaries 2: World in Flames for a variety of platforms, including the Xbox 360. This title, which should be out by the holidays, is described as follows:\n\n----------\nMercenaries 2: World in Flames is an explosive open-world action game set in a massive, highly reactive, war-torn world. A power-hungry tyrant messes with Venezuela's oil supply, sparking an invasion that turns the country into a warzone. \n\nBut for you, international crisis is all upside: You are a mercenary, and you profit from chaos. Mercenaries 2 features a slew of potential clients, all willing to pay you to do their dirty work. Dirty deeds, done for exorbitant fees. These are world powers with deep pockets, deep grudges, and enough arms and ammo to start World War III. This is your kind of environment. \n\nMercenaries 2 features the latest and most dangerous in civilian and military tech, everything from shiny new sports cars, to the future-tech satellite-guided bunker-busting mini-nuke. Tanks, APCs, boats, luxury automobiles – you name it, you can have it delivered to you in real time. And if you run out of cash you can always 'acquire' the gear you need in the field. \n\nIf you see it, you can buy it, steal it, or blow the living crap out of it. Play your own way, or play with the help of a friend in the new cooperative multiplayer mode. \n\nYou are not a soldier. You don't have to play by anyone's rules. You have your own code: you will fulfill the terms of the contract, no matter what. Not everyone in the world of Mercenaries is as honorable. Everyone will try and screw you, given the chance. They think they can get away with it, because they don't know rule #1: EVERYBODY PAYS. \n\nKey features: \n- Cooperative Multiplayer!\nPlay the main Mercenaries 2 campaign with the help of your friends. Jump in and out of a game at any time! \n- Enhanced Destruction!\nBring buildings teaming with enemy soldiers down section by section, topple an overpass with C4 to stop an oncoming enemy vehicular assault, fire off an RPG at a balcony and watch as it crashes on unsuspecting enemies below – in Mercenaries 2, destruction isn't just cool to look at, you can use it to your advantage! \n- A massive, reactive, and completely unscripted game world!\nThe world of Mercenaries 2 is larger than all of the maps of the previous Mercenaries combined and is jam-packed full of colorful characters and environments. \n- Build your own Private Military Company!\nIncrease and customize your support options by recruiting other mercenaries you meet in the game! \n- A Mercenaries' Paradise!\nEach faction has plenty of work for you, from small pick-up jobs to elaborate, multi-objective missions. The world of Mercenaries 2 offers over one hundred unique tasks you can take on – if you're interested. \n- Tired of driving?\nTake over landing zones in the world and instantly travel from place to place! \n- If you can't beat them, steal from them!\nDon't want to pay for a Bunker Buster? No problem – every faction has tons of fuel and munitions just waiting for the \"resourceful\" mercenary to acquire. Just make sure that Bunker Buster doesn't blow up when you start getting shot at! \n- No Deadly Water!\nDon't worry about drowning ever again: use watercraft or swim to traverse the oceans, rivers and lakes of Mercenaries 2. \n- Cool new toys!\nDozens of weapons, vehicles and support options are available for to use to blow the crap out of everything! Use the new grappling hook to latch on to flying vehicles and commandeer them in the sky! \n- Work for the highest bidder!\nClients will offer you money, information and other resources in exchange for your services – provided you haven't done anything to piss them off!