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Table of Contents
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I. Introduction
II. Controls
III. Walkthrough - Chemical Plant
IV. Weapons
V. Vehicles
VI. Support Items
VII. Acknowledgements
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I. INTRODUCTION
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Mercenaries is a third person action/adventure game that can be considered a
run and gun after what I played of the demo. I know that both EB and Gamestop
have the demos, so ask the next time you're in one of them to see if you can
get one. The actual finished game is scheduled to come out on January 11, 2005,
for the Playstation 2 and X-Box.
On the eve of a historic reunification of North and South Korea, a ruthless
general stages a military coup to take control of North Korea and threatens the
world with nuclear war. The international community launches a global task force
to stabilize the region. However, when diplomatic efforts collapse and the
region descends into anarchy they announce a one hundred million dollar bounty
on the North Korean general and his top military and scientific advisors. The
targets are identified in a "most wanted" list in the form of a 52-card deck of
playing cards. As one of the top operatives for a private mercenaries company
called Executive Operations, you have been called in to collect on these
bounties.
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II. CONTROLS
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*****CHARACTER*****
Left Analog Stick....................Moves character
Right Analog Stick...................Moves aiming cursor (up/down inverted)
R1 button............................Fires weapon
R2 button............................Changes weapon
L1 button............................Throws a grenade
L3 button............................Changes stance (crouch and stand)
R3 button............................Binoculars/Sniper mode
D-Pad Up/Down........................Cycle through support items
Circle...............................Jump
X....................................Reload
Square...............................Bash
Triangle.............................Action (entering vehicles, etc)
Select...............................PDA
*****HELICOPTER*****
Left Analog Stick....................Moves the chopper
Right Analog Stick...................Moves aiming cursor
R1 button............................Fires machine guns/rockets
R2 button............................Changes weapon
X....................................Ascends
Square...............................Descends
*****TANK/APC*****
Left Analog Stick....................Moves the vehicle
Right Analog Stick...................Moves turret
Circle...............................Beeps horn
R1 button............................Fires turret
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III. WALKTHROUGH - CHEMICAL PLANT
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PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: Destroy Chemical Plant, Capture/Kill Queen of Hearts
BONUS OBJECTIVES: Destroy four SAM trucks
You begin by standing on a road with a large gate just ahead of you. Don't move
and wait until you receive the Carpet Bomb support item. Press up/down on the
D-Pad until the Carpet Bomb is highlighted, then press R1 to equip it. Press
R1 again to make a target appear from the viewpoint of the sky. Move towards
the gate and hold R1 until the bar fills, which will lock the gate as the
target. Stand back and watch the fireworks.
After the smoke clears, move towards the now destroyed gate. As you approach it,
a soldier will probably come out, but the more important thing to worry about
is the vehicle driving towards you. Use your M16 Carbine to quickly take it out,
then concentrate on any soldiers. If you move forward to the center of this
area, you'll encounter another Sungri Scout, along with a transport vehicle.
Feel free to use your RPG to take them out easily.
When you do enter the gate, you'll receive word of the SAM trucks. It doesn't
matter which order you take them out if you do take them all out, but you will
need to at least take out the northwest one in order to get the firepower needed
to take out the chemical plant. Either way, I'll help you destroy them all,
since you gain an extra support item for each SAM truck you take out. The SAM
trucks appear as green blips on your radar.
Let's start with the one directly to the west of the gate. Watch out for the
guard in the tower and the ones to the left and right of the SAM truck. Once all
of the soldiers are finished, approach the truck and you'll get a message that
says that C4 is an easy way to dispose of the SAM truck. Find your C4 in your
support items, equip them and place one at the base of the truck. Move away from
the truck, then detonate the C4 to blow it up. You'll receive the HEAVY WEAPONS
DROP support item after destroying it.
The next one we'll go after is just east of the front gate. Head over there and
take out the soldiers at the base of the tower and the ones around the turret.
After that, man the turret and take out the Scouts to the north. You now have
the freedom to blow up the next SAM truck, so plant C4 and detonate it at a safe
distance. You'll receive the SNIPER WEAPON DROP support item after destroying
it.
The next one we'll tackle is the one north and a bit east of the last one. There
is a helipad and a helicopter in this area, as well as two to three soldiers.
If you want the chopper, climb the steps to the helipad and take out the guys.
If you don't need it, simply blow it up once you get in the area. Whichever you
choose, destroy the SAM truck and move onto the next one (the chopper's machine
guns can destroy the truck). You'll get the S. KOREA APC DELIVERY after
destroying the truck.
The last truck is in the northwest corner and is guarded the heaviest out of all
four. I suggest doing the west from the gate one before doing this, since you
get a Heavy Weapons drop. One of the weapons dropped is an Anti-Tank Rocket,
which comes in handy against the tank guarding the fourth SAM truck. The A-TR
locks onto the tank and acts as a homing missile against it, making it very
easy to destroy. Two missiles should destroy it, making access to the truck
easy. Take out any other soldiers around, then destroy the truck with some C4.
Once you take out the northwestern SAM truck, you can easily destroy the
chemical plant, marked with a yellow blip on your radar. Unfortunately, it is
heavily guarded. There's a tank inside the compound, along with some soldiers.
That doesn't sound so bad, but the close proximity and the yellow, explosive
barrels make it much harder. The Bunker Buster is the support item of choice
against the plant, since it is quite hard to take down otherwise.
You could do one of two things to take down the plant: go inside the compound
and take out everyone and everything, then destroy the plant OR you could bypass
all of the enemies inside by going a bit north of the compound and using the
Bunker Buster. Going north is much easier, so do that. Switch to the Bunker
Buster and line the laser with the plant, then hold R1 to fixate the target onto
the building. The blast is quite powerful, so hide behind a hill when you see
the plane drop the bomb. After you blow up the plant, there's one more thing to
do for this demo.
After the plant is gone, the Queen of Hearts will appear southwest of your
position. Go towards him and you will see him running around trying to escape
(whether he can or not, I do not know). You can either kill him or knock him
out. You get double the money if you capture him alive, but it doesn't really
matter in this demo, so feel free to kill him if you want. If you want to knock
him out, you'll need to get in melee range and bash him with your weapon, then
press Triangle quickly to take him down. Whichever you choose, you'll need to
call in a helicopter for extraction, then load up the body and you will finish
the mission.
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IV. WEAPONS
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|M16 Carbine|
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ROUNDS/CLIP - 60
TOTAL CAN CARRY - 180
A wonderful assault rifle with a great rate of fire and power. You start the
demo with this gun and you can also get it from the general support item drop.
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|Assault Rifle (AK-47)|
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ROUNDS/CLIP - 30
TOTAL CAN CARRY - 120
This is also not a bad weapon, but less powerful than the M16 above. All of the
North Korean soldiers seem to carry these.
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|Light MG|
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ROUNDS/CLIP - 100
TOTAL CAN CARRY - 200
Excellent rate of fire on this gun. The Queen of Hearts is carrying this fine
weapon.
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|SMG|
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ROUNDS/CLIP - 45
TOTAL CAN CARRY - 180
The SMG is definitely the best Uzi-type weapon I have seen, since it has great
range and is almost like a mini-assault rifle. You can find one among the
soldiers a little bit down the road from the start.
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|RPG|
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TOTAL CAN CARRY - 7
Nothing quite like a Rocket Propelled Grenade to handle the bigger baddies. You
start the demo with one.
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|Anti-Tank Rocket|
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TOTAL CAN CARRY - 3
This is a weapon used specifically for ground vehicles, like tanks. It will lock
on automatically and the missile will attempt to home in on the vehicle.
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|Anti-Air Rocket|
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TOTAL CAN CARRY - 3
This is pretty much the same as the Anti-Tank, except with flying vehicles.
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|Grenades|
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TOTAL CAN CARRY - 6
Grenades are assigned to the L1 button. The longer you hold L1, the sooner it
will detonate when you release it. That means if you hold L1 the whole time,
the grenade will explode in your hands!
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V. VEHICLES
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You will notice initials next to crew members, mainly the driver and gunner.
Whichever initial is next to the weapon, only that person can use the weapon.
For example, on the Sungri Scout, you cannot drive and fire the machine gun on
top. You have to do one or the other.
There are also 2 civilian cars and 2 civilian transports driving around, which
I won't list in the next section.
PRIMARY ROLE: Armored Troop Transport
NOTES: North Korean variant of the Russian APC
Open-top turret provides better visibility but leaves gunner exposed
This is the vehicle you'll see with the Sungri Scout in the center of the
beginning area near the two statues.
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This is the helicopter on the helipad near one of the SAM trucks.
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| T-62 TANK |
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PRIMARY ROLE: Battle Tank
NOTES: Second generation tank designed to replace the T-54
Cannon has limited effectiveness against modern tanks
CREW: 1 Driver [D]
1 Gunner [G]
WEAPONS: Tank Cannon [D]
Heavy Machine Gun [G]
These are the tanks that you can find near one of the SAM trucks and near the
chemical building.
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This is the South Korean scouting jeep-like vehicle, which can be found by
going the opposite direction from which you need to go. It is next to some
civilian houses. It has the machine gun on top.
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This is the South Korean scouting jeep-like vehicle, which can be found by
going the opposite direction from which you need to go. It is next to some
civilian houses. It has the missile launcher on top.
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You get this as a support item when you blow up the SAM truck near the helipad
northeast of your starting position.
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VI. SUPPORT ITEMS
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The support items menu can be accessed during the demo by pressing up and down
on the D-Pad. You'll get free uses for most of them before you will need to
start paying to use them. You get money by blowing up enemy vehicles and doing
objectives. You lose money by blowing up civilian/friendly vehicles.
After you use the 4 free ones, you cannot get anymore. This is also available
from the beginning of the demo. You do not need to use these for destroying the
SAM trucks, but one will destroy it if you decide to use them for that purpose.
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| CALL FOR EXTRACTION |
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FREE USES: 0
COST: $500
This option is unavailable from the start and won't be available until you
take down or kill the Queen of Hearts.
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| BASIC SUPPLY DROP |
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FREE USES: 0
COST: $25,000
This support item drops down a crate that contains grenades, ammo for your
two weapons, health and a M16 Carbine. This is available from the beginning of
the demo.
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This support item calls in a plane that will drop a bomb that spread across
the ground, creating a carpet. It is quite effective.
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| HEAVY WEAPONS DROP |
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FREE USES: 1
COST: $30,000
This support item summons a chopper that drops a crate containing an Anti-Tank
Rocket, Anti-Air Rocket and some other provisions. This is available after you
destroy the SAM truck just west of the front gate.
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| SNIPER SUPPLY DROP |
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FREE USES: 1
COST: $20,000
This support item summons a chopper that drops a crate containing a Sniper
Rifle and some other provisions. This is available after you destroy the SAM
truck just east of the front gate.
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| S. KOREAN K200 APC DELIVERY |
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FREE USES: 1
COST: $40,000
This support item summons a chopper that drops a K200 APC vehicle. This is
available after you destroy the SAM truck northeast of the front gate, next to
the helipad.
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This support item summons a plane that drops a big bomb on the target, thus
creating a HUGE explosion. You should get far away or hide behind something
sturdy before using it. This is available after you destroy the SAM truck in
the northwest, right next to the tank.
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VII. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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