Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction

Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction

Game general and emulation properties: Languages supported: Region NTSC-U: Serial numbers: SLUS-20932 SLUS-29137 (Demo) SLUS-20932GH (Greatest Hits) Release date: January 10, 2005 Windows Status: Playable Linux Status: ? Mac Status: ? Region PAL: Serial numbers: SLES-52588 SLES-52590 SLES-53008 SLES-52589 Release date: February 18, 2005 2006 CRCs: 85931FDF Windows Status: Playable Linux Status: ? Mac Status: ? Region NTSC-J/C/K: Serial numbers: SLPM-65942 SLPM-66465 (EA Best Hits) Release date: April 28, 2005 June 29, 2006 (EA Best Hits) Windows Status: ? Linux Status: ? Mac Status: ?

Developer(s): Pandemic Studios
Publisher(s): LucasArts (US, EU, AU), Electronic Arts (JP)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Wikipedia: Link
Game review links: IGN: 9.1/10, Metacritic: 84/100
Game description: Inspired by real-world events, Mercenaries begins the search for the leader of a North Korean military coup who threatens the world with nuclear war. As one of the top operatives for a private mercenaries company, you have been called in to execute the general and his top military and scientific advisors. Hunt down all 52 targets--depicted on a deck of playing cards--with a variety of military weapons and vehicles. Earn cash from different missions to buy better weapons and vehicles, or sell your vehicles and weapons on the black market.
A "sandbox" war action game with open-ended gameplay in a gigantic world. Set against the outbreak of warfare spurred on a Korean dictator coup, players have free reign of a massive landscape to take bounties on the "Deck of 52" evil warlords and minions as you work towards taking down the general who started the onslaught.

Test configurations on Windows:

Environment			Configurations			Comments	Tester
Region	OS	CPU/GPU	Revision	Graphics	Sound/Pad
PAL	?	Core i5 2500k @ stock settings MSI GTX 470 Hawk @ 758 core.	r4600	GSDX r4643 0.1.16 SSE4.1	SPU2-X r4600m 1.4.0 LilyPad r4510 0.10.0	BIOS: Europe v2.00, Goes ingame with GSDX11 HW mode, but has very bad visual glitches with the bloom effects and severe slowdowns. Runs fine in GSDX11 Software mode with 4 threads and aa1 enabled. Speedhacks used: INTC Spin detection, Wait Loop Detection, Fast CDVD, mVU flag hack, VU Cycle Stealing:1., Very demanding graphically, Relatively CPU heavy	178.167.246.121
NTSC-U	Windows	Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 @ 2.66 Ghz Nvidia GTX 260 896MB	1.1.0 r5754	GSdx r5752 SSSE3	SPU2-X 2.0.0 r5733 LilyPad 0.11.0 r5403	Game works alright (a bit slow) in Gsdx Software mode., Menus are absent in Gsdx HW mode. Also once ingame HW mode seems to be suffering from massive memory leak and almost hangs my pc. Use Gsdx software mode as most of the textures are missing with HW mode anyway.	prafull

Trivia

• Original names: マーセナリーズ (SLPM-65942) & (SLPM-66465)
• Also known as Mercenaries

	Mercenaries - Playground of Destruction (SLUS 20932) (U)