@rockymontanagarciamayne5651ever heard of using .7z files for ps2 simulators? I have this game on mine. It plays fairly good. You just need a snapdragon that's high enough. Also doable on iPad/tablets. Route it to your TV and your playing a mini sized PS2! It's really not that hard to set up. I watched a few videos and had a decent collection in less than a week with the right formatting and 'settings' knowledge. You basically just need to download a sort of language interpretation pack first to play the games. I forget what it's called precisely in the app but. It's an app! AETHER SX2 look it up!
Mercenaries and mercenaries 2 were such amazing and fun games. Nothing quite like raining destruction through the multiple artillery strikes, bombardment and other crazy weapons at your disposal. Would love a good remake of this.
Fun fact, the voice of Nilsson is the swedish actor Peter Stormare. He is famous from all diffrent movies like Lucifer in Constantine, Prison Break, Armageddon and The Big Lebowski :)
@@ThePeterOlaussonHe also starred in the b-movie called "Clown" along with a cool ps4 video game character "Until Dawn". Would recommend the video game, it's design is very cool.
He also voices Godbrand in the Castlevania anime, and it brought me right back to this game. I heard his voice and my brain just went... "IT'S THE SWEDE!"
You done just made my day dude, Mercenaries 2 World in flames was my child hood, unfortunately every game disc I could find was either damaged or broke in the process, thank you for bringing this back fr!
These were outrageous games - remember loving them as a kid. Might have to buy them again. Also, funny hearing Peter Stormare as Mattias - wouldn't have recognised him then
Fun fact: Venezuela HATED mercenaries 2. They said it encouraged Americans to invade their country and demanded it be banned. In response the creators basically put a disclaimer making fun of Venezuela being big babies. It has since been removed.
If there’s any game that deserves a remake or remaster it’s this one. Imagine being able to cause all this mass chaos on modern graphics. Absolute madness.
I'm still waiting for Mercenaries 3. Matthias played by Peter Stormare just plays really well. City destruction and everything is destructible mechanics was always the best feature for a Mercenaries games
One of the most underrated games i've played it really does deserve a remaster for current gen platforms but sadly it'll never happen. This game was ahead of it's time with a huge open world map and a lot to do and explore.
Probably more memories from this game than any other. It’s insane to me now as a 28yo adult that I can re-visit this game and still remember both maps by heart.
Me and my buddies played through this again all together on discord a few weeks ago, missed the hell out of this game, huge nostalgia rush. Glad its getting some attention in 2023! :)
Remember? How could I forget! One of my all time favorite game series, i still sometimes listen to the song "oh no you didnt" that was used for ads and the game trailer. I was check in on news of development on the sequel regularly from 2008 to 2013 when the 3rd game in the series as canceled, and still held out hope that rumors of the IP being picked up by another studio was true.
Played this with my Uncle and it was the pretty fun and chaotic even tried with some cheats, they should try and bring this game series back to life and not mess it up.
Mercenaries ruled! I played that game so much and wish we could get a remaster or something like that. The sequel is even better too. By the end you are like a god of war, I was assassinating solitary targets via nuclear strike and buying helicopters to get from point a to b and just crashing them into my objectives.
I played the f2p cod clone Combat Arms back in the day. You could change the settings to alter the music playing in the lobby for a match. I went with Mercenaries' "Oh no you didnt!" Song.
Bro I grew up playing the hell out of Mercenaries' on Xbox. Still have the game disc and a little cheat sheet for money, Inf HP and Ammo, and the code to unlock a crate full of whoop ass. The Street Sweeper SMG that always clipped through your shoulder and was just a portable helicopter Gatling gun. The Pocket Grenade launcher pistol, and last but not least, the portable artillery rocket that fired those same giant rockets carried by the armored trucks. I'm not joking about it firing the same rockets either, if you pause the game right after firing you can see the missile eat up most of the screen as it leaves the rocket launcher. God it was SO Much Fun back then, back when games by Pandemic (RIP) like Starwars Battle Front 2 and Destroy All Humans had actual cheat codes for fun. The music alone is iconic, made by the same composer for The Incredibles movie by Pixar. I still listen to them regularly while playing MechWarrior cause they fit so damn well, especially the ambient tracks. Some of with I found out years layer actually had an error in one of the sound tracks where the Flute playing in one of the songs were Completely missing due to an error upon release on Xbox. I'm not sure if the PS2 version had the Flute Track missing as well but the ones uploaded on TH-cam were the first time I had ever heard them, and I played this game for Years since Childhood!
The sound track still sounds so good I need to get this game again the great memories I had so much stuff you can do like hijack helicopter whilst there hovering or destroy a whole town.
This is actually a game I remember. My brother and I used to play it, and I’ll forever associate the smell of old spice body spray with that game for some reason. Loved hunting the deck of enemies.
i just randomly remembered this game a few days ago and was racking my brain trying to figure out where i knew Universal Petroleum from. this is crazy timing
i loved Mercs 2 calling in MOABs on enemies bodies flyin buildings crashing to the ground just good old fun some of the best times i had would love to see a remake
1:12 Describing someone doing a fairly average Australian presentation voice as “sounding like they’re about to burst out laughing” feels so alien to me
Holy crap, from the word go all those audio files, the music, It threw me back to all those hours I spent playing this as a kid. I had no idea this game took up so much of my brains back end XD.
Honestly, after having an Xbox one since it was released… I still have more fun finding old og Xbox games or 360 games in stores and playing on the 360 than anything I’ve ever downloaded to my One.
I LOVED this game. The sounds were great and the cheats were even greater to use after beating it. I loved changing my character to look like one of the north korean Spec Ops guys and set it on invincibility and Rambo through everything, lol. Stealing one of the Hinds or Apaches and roaming the land was fuckin awesome!
Mercenaries 2 was my jam. It was rated t so I was actually allowed to play it as a kid instead of gta or just cause. Dropping a nuke in the second one is amazing
I loved this game back in the day! I didn't remember how awkward the controls were! But yeah, this game and Freedom Fighters were a couple of my faves back in the day.
I remember the old technique of calling a support helicopter and getting the shot underneath the seat where the pilot sits just right so that the pilot would die but the helicopter would be structurally fine
No other game has scratched the itch Mercs1 left. GTA in a battlefield Ai combat encounters Destruction choices Strong but not invincible Aces But my favorite is how the factions work. Their missions, growth, spread to other areas, etc. I wish more games with factions actually showed these changes in the world like this game.
Such a good game. We desperately need a sequel or spiritual successor this type of game where you get to hunt and collect the bad guys like this. Never really had a game like them since.
One of my first fps games I played was a game called black and I played not that long ago and it still kinda holds up, i feel like u would like it if u tryna play more older games
I miss this game. Unlocking the fuel-air bomb and bunker busyer was so fun. Just destruction and fire everywhere. 10/10 game. (Exept for all the bad points 😅)
I remember Mercenaries on my Xbox and I loved it despite the fact I only ever got the Ace of Clubs and never got anything else. My nephew came over once (he is the same age as me of a year younger) and he decided to ruin the game for me by blowing up the Russian Mafia Headquarters so I can’t get any deliveries and I had to spend so much money to fix things. I then got Mercenaries 2 on my Xbox 360 but it would always freeze when k tried to talk to the Allies at their HQ or even got anywhere close to the HQ. I bought it for my PS2 (I still have one and had to get a new chord and controller for it) and enjoy it.
"My nephew came over once (he is the same age as me of a year younger)". Makes zero GD sense. How is the same age as you but a year younger? MF do better.
Imagine you are a soldier and your boss being head butted, gut punched and then stepped on and cuffed by a guy in Mohawk . Even I wouldn’t dare go up against him even I were holding anRPG .
The best pistol I've ever used in ANY shooter came from either the first or second game. Only available through cheats, or through completion of the story, it was a fully automatic pistol that shot GRENADES, and then there was the Street Sweeper, an SMG that held 3000 rounds of HELICOPTER firepower, PER MAGAZINE.
dude this is seriously the one game from my childhood that i still constantly think about. such an awesome game.
@rockymontanagarciamayne5651i have still my OG Xbox with the game…but unfortunately the console dosent work anymore. What a great game that was 👍
Literally just downloaded it onto usb for my chipped ps2 i just picked up. I dunno how much ill play but i loved it as a kid.
@do you happen to know what might be wrong with it? My dad would always repair our 360s and original Xbox so he might know how to fix it.
@rockymontanagarciamayne5651ever heard of using .7z files for ps2 simulators? I have this game on mine. It plays fairly good. You just need a snapdragon that's high enough. Also doable on iPad/tablets. Route it to your TV and your playing a mini sized PS2! It's really not that hard to set up. I watched a few videos and had a decent collection in less than a week with the right formatting and 'settings' knowledge. You basically just need to download a sort of language interpretation pack first to play the games. I forget what it's called precisely in the app but. It's an app! AETHER SX2 look it up!
Same
The sequel gave me some of the craziest gaming moments I've ever had.
Facts
Such an underrated game at the time
For real
The song for Mercs 2 was awesome too
Thats a facts and a half
Never played the original Mercenaries, but Mercenaries 2: World in Flames was pretty fun. Lets see how this one goes c:
The original was amazing
World in flames is a masterpiece
I think it was the Cuba one i know it and i Playt it to
@@Agent_P123Mercs 2 was Venezuela
@@metalmugen @Joghurt450 I believe Mercs 3 was supposed to be in Cuba, before EA shut the studio down.
Mercenaries and mercenaries 2 were such amazing and fun games.
Nothing quite like raining destruction through the multiple artillery strikes, bombardment and other crazy weapons at your disposal.
Would love a good remake of this.
Fun fact, the voice of Nilsson is the swedish actor Peter Stormare. He is famous from all diffrent movies like Lucifer in Constantine, Prison Break, Armageddon and The Big Lebowski :)
Super 8, John Wick 2 and Fargo aswell
@@ThePeterOlaussonHe also starred in the b-movie called "Clown" along with a cool ps4 video game character "Until Dawn". Would recommend the video game, it's design is very cool.
He also voices Godbrand in the Castlevania anime, and it brought me right back to this game. I heard his voice and my brain just went... "IT'S THE SWEDE!"
Imagine being killed by a Swedish man with a slicked handlebar moustache
varg
With a polite Australian lady on coms🤔
@@nikitaivanovs541
Fecalfunny moment
An unstoppable Swedish mercenary with a Mohawk is coming
You done just made my day dude, Mercenaries 2 World in flames was my child hood, unfortunately every game disc I could find was either damaged or broke in the process, thank you for bringing this back fr!
I know its not Mercenaries 2 World in Flames but seeing the first one was also a spectacle!
Mercenaries 2 was available on PC, so it is possible to find it in digital format, though it behaves extremely weirdly on modern hardware.
@@Elatenl look up abandon ware games and stuff..
You can download it and play on pc, im just doing 😂
God I loved this game. Taught me how to hunt people in the most creative ways. Especially when I wanted them alive😂
"Hello, FBI?"
I swear your on like 10 lists for that, not good lists
🤨🤨📸📸📸
I will confirm nor deny anything 😌
Totally sane comment. Next time u are talking to a loved one I want u to read what u wrote out loud to them.
These were outrageous games - remember loving them as a kid. Might have to buy them again. Also, funny hearing Peter Stormare as Mattias - wouldn't have recognised him then
He creeped me the hell out as the devil in "Constantine." such a good actor. =)
First time I watched Castlevania I heard Godbrand and went, "Holy crap, that's Mattias from mercenaries!
I remember renting this from Blockbuster, using money cheats, and then having an absolute blast wiping out entire areas with the Bunker Buster.
Unlimited money cheat was awesome ! Have a small bird dropped off or BPD ANYTIM3 we needed !
A remaster of this game with modern day environment destruction physics would honestly go so hard
I remember playing mercenaries on the xbox and mercenaries 2 on the xbox 360. I loved those so much.
Fun fact: Venezuela HATED mercenaries 2. They said it encouraged Americans to invade their country and demanded it be banned. In response the creators basically put a disclaimer making fun of Venezuela being big babies. It has since been removed.
Fun Fact Venezuela is not even real.
Todd Howard created Venezuela in one of the first Elders Scrolls games, to add to the fun facts.
oh yeah because everyone in the US playing the game is just gonna get up start their own army build jets and ships to go over there and take it over.
considering America's history in South America, I think their concern's are more valid than you'd think lol.
@@bobslobbins2864 yeah but to lose it over a game
this game and its sequel were my childhood , fucking loved military vehicles and just blowing shit up on my shitty tube tv was ace
If there’s any game that deserves a remake or remaster it’s this one. Imagine being able to cause all this mass chaos on modern graphics. Absolute madness.
I remember them canceling the 3rd game when pandemic went bankrupt, and wanting to punch orphans.
I enjoyed Just cause 3 because it reminded me of Mercenaries. Good times
This game lives rent free in my head from time to time.
Same here
This game was Hitman with assault rifles. You could sneak into base using enemy vehicle and they would take time to detect you .
Still have this bad boy on PS2, one of the best games I ever played growing up.
I'm still waiting for Mercenaries 3. Matthias played by Peter Stormare just plays really well. City destruction and everything is destructible mechanics was always the best feature for a Mercenaries games
One of the most underrated games i've played it really does deserve a remaster for current gen platforms but sadly it'll never happen. This game was ahead of it's time with a huge open world map and a lot to do and explore.
Probably more memories from this game than any other. It’s insane to me now as a 28yo adult that I can re-visit this game and still remember both maps by heart.
Me and my buddies played through this again all together on discord a few weeks ago, missed the hell out of this game, huge nostalgia rush. Glad its getting some attention in 2023! :)
Mercenaries was one of my favorite games of all time. At the time it was my favorite. It was so epic
Literally every year I pray for a remake or remaster of this to come out of the woodworks, maybe one day 😢
Remember? How could I forget! One of my all time favorite game series, i still sometimes listen to the song "oh no you didnt" that was used for ads and the game trailer. I was check in on news of development on the sequel regularly from 2008 to 2013 when the 3rd game in the series as canceled, and still held out hope that rumors of the IP being picked up by another studio was true.
Played this with my Uncle and it was the pretty fun and chaotic even tried with some cheats, they should try and bring this game series back to life and not mess it up.
Actually one of the coolest games of its generation in open world exploration, destruction physics and vehicle variation and customization
This game was one of the coolest games of my childhood and I thought I was the only person to ever play it.
World in flames is one of the greatest games not only of its time but also of all time
Mercenaries ruled! I played that game so much and wish we could get a remaster or something like that. The sequel is even better too. By the end you are like a god of war, I was assassinating solitary targets via nuclear strike and buying helicopters to get from point a to b and just crashing them into my objectives.
Nilsson all day, run and gun with him, I LOVED this game and only ever played it with him. His speed was unmatched.
Kev you should play the old Star Wars battlefront games! They were amazing!
This game, Black and TimeSplitters are one of the best shooters the Ps2 and Xbox generation had to offer.
Just played mercenaries 1 and 2 on rpcs3 emulator this past month. Both fun games. I kinda enjoyed the 1st one compared to the 2nd story wise
I played the f2p cod clone Combat Arms back in the day.
You could change the settings to alter the music playing in the lobby for a match. I went with Mercenaries' "Oh no you didnt!" Song.
I remember over-heating 3 Compact PS2's while doing long ass marathons of playing this one game while my CD for GTA Vice City was gathering dust.
7:25 that car chase had me crying, been in that situation so many times
Bro I grew up playing the hell out of Mercenaries' on Xbox. Still have the game disc and a little cheat sheet for money, Inf HP and Ammo, and the code to unlock a crate full of whoop ass. The Street Sweeper SMG that always clipped through your shoulder and was just a portable helicopter Gatling gun. The Pocket Grenade launcher pistol, and last but not least, the portable artillery rocket that fired those same giant rockets carried by the armored trucks. I'm not joking about it firing the same rockets either, if you pause the game right after firing you can see the missile eat up most of the screen as it leaves the rocket launcher.
God it was SO Much Fun back then, back when games by Pandemic (RIP) like Starwars Battle Front 2 and Destroy All Humans had actual cheat codes for fun.
The music alone is iconic, made by the same composer for The Incredibles movie by Pixar. I still listen to them regularly while playing MechWarrior cause they fit so damn well, especially the ambient tracks. Some of with I found out years layer actually had an error in one of the sound tracks where the Flute playing in one of the songs were Completely missing due to an error upon release on Xbox. I'm not sure if the PS2 version had the Flute Track missing as well but the ones uploaded on TH-cam were the first time I had ever heard them, and I played this game for Years since Childhood!
A Switch version would be amazing
I remember me and my father enjoying mercenaries 2 , it’s something about those early 2000 underdeveloped open world sandboxes felt ahead of its time
This was my childhood and I've been wanting for someone to bring this game up. They need to remaster this game
This was a huge part of my childhood. Especially playing as indiana jones
The sound track still sounds so good I need to get this game again the great memories I had so much stuff you can do like hijack helicopter whilst there hovering or destroy a whole town.
Easily one of my favorite series. Awesome memories from playing this with my dad
This is actually a game I remember. My brother and I used to play it, and I’ll forever associate the smell of old spice body spray with that game for some reason. Loved hunting the deck of enemies.
I love how a game is apart of most peoples childhoods cause same i loved this one and the second
The fact that we still havent recieved a 3rd game or at the very least a modern equivalent is an outright disgrace to the gaming industry
A Mercenaries sequel with the frostbite engine would've been epic. Missed opportunity, EA. 🙃
This game was a pivotal part of my childhood🤣 the fact you picked nilsson makes me happy he was always the coolest
i just randomly remembered this game a few days ago and was racking my brain trying to figure out where i knew Universal Petroleum from. this is crazy timing
we need another game like mercenaries. This game was so fun when it released.
Every good warlord should have a jar of ears on his desk. That way he can make necklaces out of them when it's arts and crafts time
Recently bought a used ps2 to start playing this and Scarface the world is yours
Lmao that one guard just standing there looking at you while you delete his whole base: "huh, must been a wind"
I still have disc and I have 40 millions on that game lol
This is MGSV: The Phantom Pain.
This was the first open world game that motivated me enough to play through all of the story missions. Good times...
Tank: flying through the air
Your support comms: "they've spotted you"
I DO remember this game. Absolute classic from my childhood. Good stuff.
i loved Mercs 2 calling in MOABs on enemies bodies flyin buildings crashing to the ground just good old fun some of the best times i had would love to see a remake
1:12 Describing someone doing a fairly average Australian presentation voice as “sounding like they’re about to burst out laughing” feels so alien to me
Holy crap, from the word go all those audio files, the music, It threw me back to all those hours I spent playing this as a kid. I had no idea this game took up so much of my brains back end XD.
Honestly, after having an Xbox one since it was released… I still have more fun finding old og Xbox games or 360 games in stores and playing on the 360 than anything I’ve ever downloaded to my One.
I LOVED this game. The sounds were great and the cheats were even greater to use after beating it. I loved changing my character to look like one of the north korean Spec Ops guys and set it on invincibility and Rambo through everything, lol. Stealing one of the Hinds or Apaches and roaming the land was fuckin awesome!
Mercenaries 2 was my jam. It was rated t so I was actually allowed to play it as a kid instead of gta or just cause. Dropping a nuke in the second one is amazing
Laying waste to a city with a helicopter gun ship was just some of the most fun you could have
I loved this game back in the day! I didn't remember how awkward the controls were! But yeah, this game and Freedom Fighters were a couple of my faves back in the day.
Yes, this game and POD were my favorite video games of all times. Staple of my childhood🖤
I remember the old technique of calling a support helicopter and getting the shot underneath the seat where the pilot sits just right so that the pilot would die but the helicopter would be structurally fine
They need to bring back this series and Army of Two. Had so much fun with those games.
Not only do I remember, I can never forget. Still play it occasionally. I wish I had the first one on original Xbox, though.
Mercenaries 2 was my childhood. That game gave me so much unbridled joy for years until I upgraded console generations.
No other game has scratched the itch Mercs1 left.
GTA in a battlefield
Ai combat encounters
Destruction choices
Strong but not invincible
Aces
But my favorite is how the factions work. Their missions, growth, spread to other areas, etc. I wish more games with factions actually showed these changes in the world like this game.
Such a good game. We desperately need a sequel or spiritual successor this type of game where you get to hunt and collect the bad guys like this. Never really had a game like them since.
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames was AMAZING (On PC), loved it so much
2:50 "now who the hell is this" as kev is sitting up and down in this chair😂
I got immense nostalgia when the fences turned into boingy ramps, I forgot about that occurrence
wow I haven't thought about these games in forever. what a blast from the past and such a wava of nostalgia
Bro that cha ching brought back some feelings I haven't felt in a while!! Lol
"I'm a mercenary on the run, baby!" '(splat) "Oh."
Still one of my favorite games Mattias was my guy and I have never forgotten about him since my childhood 😂
Sequel had one of THE BEST in game vehicles the PANZERCYCLE a cross between a motobike & a tank
One of my first fps games I played was a game called black and I played not that long ago and it still kinda holds up, i feel like u would like it if u tryna play more older games
I miss this game. Unlocking the fuel-air bomb and bunker busyer was so fun. Just destruction and fire everywhere. 10/10 game. (Exept for all the bad points 😅)
The bad parts….Like the timed escort missions!!!
@@TheTheknightofblack ugh. Hated them, but teenage me just wanted big booms and lots of shooting.
I was just talking to someone about this game a week ago lol
I remember Mercenaries on my Xbox and I loved it despite the fact I only ever got the Ace of Clubs and never got anything else. My nephew came over once (he is the same age as me of a year younger) and he decided to ruin the game for me by blowing up the Russian Mafia Headquarters so I can’t get any deliveries and I had to spend so much money to fix things.
I then got Mercenaries 2 on my Xbox 360 but it would always freeze when k tried to talk to the Allies at their HQ or even got anywhere close to the HQ.
I bought it for my PS2 (I still have one and had to get a new chord and controller for it) and enjoy it.
"My nephew came over once (he is the same age as me of a year younger)". Makes zero GD sense. How is the same age as you but a year younger? MF do better.
This game is goated and has such a good soundtrack aswell
Imagine you are a soldier and your boss being head butted, gut punched and then stepped on and cuffed by a guy in Mohawk . Even I wouldn’t dare go up against him even I were holding anRPG .
Miss this game series so much
Love how the guy stands behind an artillery piece and there is no recoil. Lmao 🤣
this game and its sequel were absolutely amazing. some of my best memories
ah yes, when you crash in the sports car, explode, but somehow live with one health.
wish they'd made more of these
Same brother same
FINALLY! Ive literally been waiting for years for you to do this game
Not wants did this man even get in a helicopter smh💀
If any game needed a proper remake, Mercenaries 1/2 deserves it.
I agree with you
The best pistol I've ever used in ANY shooter came from either the first or second game. Only available through cheats, or through completion of the story, it was a fully automatic pistol that shot GRENADES, and then there was the Street Sweeper, an SMG that held 3000 rounds of HELICOPTER firepower, PER MAGAZINE.
the only thing I remember about Mercenaries, is the banger commercial for Mercenaries 2
I used to use the c4 on the hood of jeeps to get rid of tanks. Drive ditch and detonate. Memories
Oh absolutely , this one had me completely, hooked back in the day