A look at how Mercenaries 2 does co-op
IGN has a pretty decent writeup detailing their hands on time with two player co-op in the explosive Mercenaries 2: World in Flames. Online co-op is presented pretty standardly, allowing two players to connect seamlessly where one player enters the others' world a la Crackdown. Meaning that any progress made during co-op only counts towards the hosts' game, but any weapons or money earned by the other player can be taken back to their game. What's nice to see too is the fact that the game doesn't "scale" the action based on co-op, which means that having a co-op buddy by your side makes dishing out the destruction a whole lot easier. Make the jump to get Mercs 2 learnified.
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8-13-2008 @ 2:01PM
Bac0nator said...
game looks sweet.. first one was a blast.
How the hell do ya get blue dye off your hands...
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8-13-2008 @ 4:35PM
DiggyStyle said...
WD40... It gets everything off of everything, but you might smell weird for a while...
8-13-2008 @ 2:13PM
joey said...
Why can't we have co-op like halo or gears?
I just want to play the whole story with a buddy.
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8-13-2008 @ 2:44PM
Neuromancer said...
Who's saying you can't? It's just the state of the world will save to the hosts HDD.
8-13-2008 @ 3:28PM
joey said...
I guess... It's really only jump in, jump out for the host then.
8-13-2008 @ 2:31PM
iHomer said...
Ron Workman is going to work at Pandemic.
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8-13-2008 @ 2:43PM
Neuromancer said...
I liked the first one a lot but the previews I've seen make this look like not much a jump forward. Also they changed my character (Chris Jacobs) way too much. How many bald cigar chomping characters do we need, really?
Old: http://www.xbox.com/NR/rdonlyres/57CA2B81-F97B-4BC2-93AE-AA2F9DA827BE/0/ilmmercenaries019.jpg
New: http://media.teamxbox.com/games/ss/1506/1181001304.jpg
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8-13-2008 @ 2:47PM
emirabal said...
I didnt see any coop play, im confused, also, this game looks sick, wooo
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8-13-2008 @ 3:23PM
door0122 said...
yeah, little misleading there. The link to IGN's story is about co-op, but the video is just a regular trailer vid.
8-13-2008 @ 3:54PM
Vcize said...
if you're not the host, even though you can't pick up from the same point you left off in the co-op game in your own game, do you still get credit towards the achievements in co-op games?
I ask because people keep comparing this to Crackdown, where that worked. If you went and beat all the Los Muertos bosses in a co-op game you still got the achievement for killing all the Los Muertos bosses, even though if you went back into your own game save it would say you haven't killed any. Same thing for Rooftop races, road races, etc. These all saved towards your achievement progress, even if you did half in single player and half in someone else's co-op game.
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8-13-2008 @ 5:29PM
ezwaffles said...
looks like a lot of fun!
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8-14-2008 @ 12:16AM
Doc said...
This might be a dumb question but i have not been following this as well as i would have hoped, even though im buying it day 1. My question is, can Games For Windows players play co-op with Xbox 360 players? I would rather have the G4W Mercs but if i cant play with my 360 friends then i'll be forced to get the 360 disc.
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8-31-2008 @ 5:14PM
Akira said...
I can't co-op! how to co-op without xbox live... i wanna play this game split screen with a friend... Help Please
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