Mercenaries 2 Total Payback Update Announced

[Evil Avatar]

Shacknews is reporting (http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/55011) that Pandemic's 3rd person shooter, Mercenaries 2: World in Flames, will be receive a "Total Payback" update on October 13th and new Downloadable Content will be coming in November.

Pandemic Studios will release the "Total Payback" update for Mercenaries 2: World in Flames on October 13th for Xbox Live and on October 20th for the PlayStation Network. This update will allow players to create even more chaos in the streets and hills of Venezuela, offering:

Cheats - Unlock the total-payback power of all weapons, vehicles and airstrikes in Mercenaries 2, as well as everyone's favorite: Infinite Ammo and Infinite Health
SIX New playable characters - From Blanco to Fiona, Ewan, Eva and more
Cross-region Co-Op multiplayer SUPPORT - Tear through Venezuela with friends from around the worldIn addition to the "Total Payback" update, Pandemic will release the first Mercenaries 2: World in Flames Downloadable Content (DLC) in November.

[Fubl]

sounds good to me.

[FearTheReaper]

Any word if it will fix some of the initial issues with the game ?

[Wombat]

What about the PC version?

[Anaris82]

Fixing the massive game crashing (and console hard-locking) bugs would be nice. I don't give a rat's ass about DLC, I just want to be able to play the damn game.

[moron]

Don't see how you could make a politically correct version of this game.

=)

Cheers

[Slade]

Hopefully, these six new playable characters (thought I wouldn't see Eva again) have actual differences from each other and the existing three mercenaries, and not just act as skins or clones.

[BloodPack]

This game wasn't very fun to begin with, a new coat of paint isn't going to change that

[Uniqueusername]

Add LAN support and I might buy the game... otherwise, it's no use to me. I have 2 360s on a LAN for co-op gaming, it's annoying I can't play this.

Same goes for Army of Two, FWIW.

[DeadPixel]

Loved the game, glad they are supporting it with decent size updates. I'm going to play more, best 360 co-op game I've played this past summer.

[AlwaysOn222]

Any word on when this game will drop in price? Whenever it will become a classic/plantinum or whatever they call it now I will buy it. Before then there is simply to many new and more interesting games coming out that I wan't.

[Wilkz07]

If EA had spent a little more time polishing this title the cheats could have been accessible after campaign was finished, and the character skins could have been unlocked as you recruited them to your team.

too little too late.

[FearTheReaper]

Agreed. Promoting "cheats" as a major point of interest does raise some eyebrows.

[JayK47]

Any word on when this game will drop in price? Whenever it will become a classic/plantinum or whatever they call it now I will buy it. Before then there is simply to many new and more interesting games coming out that I wan't.

I don't think this game should ever be considered a classic or platinum. Perhaps washed up would better describe the game. So when will this game be priced appropriately for a washed up game? I'm thinking this game would be worth about $10 to $20.