Riccitiello didn't shy away from exhibiting his belief in maxing out a franchise to its greatest financial potential. He talked about the Pandemic-created franchise, Mercenaries. "[As for] Mercenaries 2--there will be a Mercenaries 3. And if I can have anything to do with it there will be a Mercenaries 10."
Mercenaries 2 sold 1.2 million copies during the fiscal quarter, execs said.
Mercenaries has never seen the kind of sales of other sandbox games, but in that sense it's always been a niche hit. Now new details uncovered suggest that the third installment may actually use Battlefield 3's impressive Frostbite 2 engine. Will that sell it big?
A NeoGAF forum member by the name of Nirolak took the time to sleuth out every bit of supporting evidence he could find, coming up with some interesting pointers to help the rumor along. And nothing has bolstered rumors better in the last year than developer job listings, which he unearthed in spades.
* Gets Defibrillators *
Live Pandemic, LIVE!
* Shocks Awesome Developers Dead Husk Hopefully To Life *
Go big or go home...
This game should catapult the Mercenaries series back to fame.
This would be awesome! I really wanted to like the second one, but there was one mission I couldn't beat and then I gave up, it was the one where you have to defend a building from all these tanks coming toward you to destroy the building, I have no idea how to beat it!
EA is working on a secret 3rd person shooter which will have heavy destructible environments. Is this the new Mercenaries game that they have been working on since 2009?
If those bastards at EA have the stones to release another Mercenaries title after they kicked Pandemic to the curb.
Then they will not see any more of my money.
Sorry Bioware.
Boo hoo mate. Pandemic released a slew of average games. Most were even kept on at different studios anyway. EA are on a roll and big John Ricotello a man that deserves some serious recognition. If you're gonna not buy their games over a reason like that then it's really your own loss.
The first was ahead of it's time, the second was mediocre...The third? Pandemic are gone :( Fu** You EA :)
Pandemic didn't keep up. Every current gen game Pandemic had, sucked. Their franchise is now, likely to be in better hands than it was with Pandemic, in the end.
@Johandevries
I agree with you about The Saboteur not sucking, Pandemic did a good job on that game IMO. It was a very good open world game. I have completed it and found it a quite enjoyable story.
I also liked Mercs 2, but not as much as The Saboteur though.
It wasn't great. The story was awful, gameplay so-so. It was kinda like wanna be mercenaries.
They need to make it as good looking, as big, and as fun as Just Cause 2. Co-op was ok but it sucked not being able to roam far away from your friend.
then you suck! it's a very good game! although Merc2 sucks and i don't know what the hell were they thinking with that but The Saboteur certainly not a good reason to sack the whole studio down for!
It's Mercs Inc. The once canned game. Got brought alive by a leaked showreel of a ex-employee of Pandemic last year.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. I was gutted when the devs lost there jobs i never thought i see another mercanaires.
nobody has ever made a game like this. sabatour wasnt the same.
i need another sequel please.
NNNOOOO USEING FROSTBITE 2.0 ENGINE WHATT!! THIS CANT BE REAL WHAOOOOOOOOOO
Please, just make it like Mercs 1, because the second was horrible. Man, i don't know how many days i spent playing the first. Amazing game back in the day
Kotaku writes: "Mercenaries developers Pandemic went bust last year, while members of the studio were hard at work on a third game in the sandbox warfare series. This is what it would have looked like, had it ever been released.
The game had the working title of Mercenaries 3: No Limits and was still in the early stages of development when Pandemic was closed up. That explains why things look a little rough; it was a showreel displaying the game's new concepts, not a shiny trailer designed for public consumption."
Weep Weep, Cry Cry.
Alright, so it was indeed pretty rough, and I'm not exactly feeling the new 40s-50s era style, but it could've held some promise. Also, the voice acting was terrible, but most of that was just placeholder (hopefully).
Now, us Merc fans are simply waiting for EA to show Mercs Inc or whatever the hell Mercenaries game they are working on (since they took on a lot of the Pandemic people and the Mercenaries IP and shipped them and it over to EA LA)at either the VGAs or E3.
RIP Pandemic. You had your ups and downs, but I still have a good amount of fond memories of your games.
Yes Mercs Inc is still under its veil at EALA with former Pandemic staff working on it. Should be interesting when and if its shown off in the future. :)
I remember army men RTS that game was da shizz.
To Pandemic went bust I still remember their slogan:
"The only thing we have to fear...is the air it self"!
Still mercs 1 is one of my favorite games. Bring it back to its roots, that feel. I personally hate where they took the game, i like the destruction but they ruined it :(
APATHY.
Hurray?
Pass!
Oh god what did we ever do to deserve this, I mean I never harmed Pandemic's dog so why should they keep shoving badly program games at us.