Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction

No limits, no boundaries, no mercy. If you can see it, you can use it, steal it, hijack it, or simply blow the crap out of it.

Mercenaries’ is an explosive third-person shooter that lets you play an elite mercenary in a completely interactive playground of destruction.

**Features

• Massive interactive environments:** If you can see it, you can use it, steal it, drive it, fly it, or blow it up.

• Flexible gameplay: Use your weapons and imagination to figure out how to complete missions in a variety of ways.

• Explosive combat: You have the firepower to lay waste to anything in sight. Choose from a huge arsenal of realistic military weapons.

• More than 70 military and civilian vehicles: Everything from tanks and cars to trucks and helicopters can be commandeered at anytime and used for any purpose.

• High-production action-movie experience: Step into a real-world-inspired story line in which a North Korea military coup creates a political hot zone and offers high-paying opportunities for well-trained mercenaries.

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www.xbox.com

LUCASARTS TO DEPLOY MERCENARIES

LONDON, U.K. - March 15, 2004 - LucasArts officially announced today that it will deploy Mercenaries, an open-ended third person combat-action game this fall for the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system and the Xbox video game system from Microsoft. Set in North Korea where a coup has plunged the troubled nation into chaos, an elite private military company has dispatched a lone mercenary to track down 52 fugitive members of the old hardliner regime --- before they can launch a nuclear attack.

Mercenaries will give gamers the opportunity to live out their action movie fantasies with its explosive combat and non-linear gameplay set in massive interactive environments. If you can see it -- you can steal it, use it or blow it up. Players can demonstrate their creativity in the hunt for enemy combatants using more than 30 real-world military weapons. Gamers will be able to assume the role of one of three different mercenaries and will have the opportunity to call in air strikes and pilot more than 20 authentic ground and air vehicles including helicopters, trucks and tanks. Players can attract attention from embedded journalists in the game as they work with (and against) sparring international factions to secure all 52 targets, represented by a deck of playing cards. Mercenaries will be able to purchase additional weapons and vehicles with the money earned from each capture.

All of the nonstop action within Mercenaries will be highlighted with authentic sound effects recorded and mastered at Academy Award-winning Skywalker Sound. Mercenaries is published by LucasArts and developed by critically acclaimed Pandemic Studios. For more information, please visit the official product website at www.mercenariesthegame.com.

About LucasArts
LucasArts, a Lucasfilm Ltd. company, is a leading developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software worldwide for video game console systems and PC. Based in Marin County, Calif., as well as on the Internet at www.lucasarts.com , LucasArts was created in 1982 by George Lucas to provide an interactive element to his vision of a state-of-the-art, multi-faceted entertainment company.

Lucasfilm Ltd. is one of the world's leading film and entertainment companies. Founded by George Lucas in 1971, it is a privately held, fully integrated entertainment company. In addition to its motion-picture and television production operations, the company's global activities include Industrial Light & Magic and Skywalker Sound, serving the digital needs of the entertainment industry for visual-effects and audio post-production, and Lucas Licensing, which manages the global merchandising activities for Lucasfilm's entertainment properties. Additionally, Lucas Online creates Internet-based content for Lucasfilm's entertainment properties and businesses. Lucasfilm's motion-picture productions include five of the 20 biggest box-office hits of all time and have received 19 Oscars and 53 Academy Award nominations. Lucasfilm's television projects have won 12 Emmy Awards. Lucasfilm Ltd. is headquartered in Marin County, Calif.

About Pandemic
Pandemic Studios, LLC is a premier developer of entertainment software for PlayStation(r)2, Xbox, GameCube(tm), and the PC. Over the last 6 years, industry veterans Josh Resnick and Andrew Goldman have built Pandemic www.pandemicstudios.com into a company of more than 150 highly skilled programmers, designers, and artists working on high-profile titles. Pandemic is a privately held company with development studios in Los Angeles, California and Brisbane, Australia.

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Press Release

Mercenaries schlägt ein einzigartiges und revolutionäres Kapitel in der Kategorie 'Freies Gameplay' auf und gibt Ihnen völlige Handlungsfreiheit. Sie können tun und lassen was Sie wollen, wie sie wollen!

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www.nbg-online.de (German)

Become a hired gun, hunt down bad guys, commandeer tanks and blow stuff up in
LucasArts' free-roaming, bounty hunting action adventure.

Killing for cash is the name of the game in Mercenaries, a third-person action adventure
that combines intense weapons combat with open-ended, 'go anywhere, do anything'
gameplay. Putting you in the role of a soldier of fortune in future North Korea, Mercenaries
lets you pilot dozens of ground and air vehicles, puts state-of-the-art weaponry at your
fingertips, and even lets you form your own alliances as you work through your list of
targets.

A recent coup in North Korea has left the region in chaos. A private military firm has
decided to dispatch a lone mercenary to track down 52 of the old regime's members before
they can launch a nuclear attack, which is where you come in. Playing as American
badass Chris Jacobs, volatile Swedish mercenary Mattias Nilsson, or British SAS
Paratrooper Jennifer Mui (all of whom have their own unique talents), your job is to take
down the 'deck of 52', the ultimate prize being the Ace of Spades.

The game's explosive 52 missions (one per target) feature a wide range of objectives,
from sabotage and hijacking to search and destroy - but you have more or less complete
freedom as to how you go about them. Part war chest, part toy box, Mercenaries features
fully interactive scenery, a devastating array of weapons, and dozens of vehicles just
waiting to be 'liberated'. If you can see it, chances are that you can steal it, use it, drive it or
just blow it up. Impressive physics brings the destruction to vivid life, whether it's huge
explosions, massive vehicle crashes, or buildings tumbling down around you.

Working your way through the game's non-linear structure, you can even choose to form
your own alliances with various factions in the area, including the North Koreans, the
Chinese, and the Russian mafia. Remember, it's not the mercenary's job to ask why; just
when and how much.

• Hijack over 30 military vehicles, from jeeps and tanks to helicopters
• Use real-world weaponry such as sniper rifles, grenades and rocket launchers, to fulfil
  your objectives
• Massive free-roaming environments

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uk.playstation.com

Anything goes in this PLAYGROUND OF DESTRUCTION™.

You are a lethal mercenary. Your mission is to topple a sinister military regime by any means necessary. If it drives or flies, you can hijack it. If it shoots or explodes, you can use it as a weapon. You are free to go anywhere, destroy anything and blow the crap out of everything.

In this Playground of Destruction™, there are no limits, no barriers and no mercy.

• If you can reach it, you can drive it, fly it, steal it, shoot it or destroy it.
• Use your hard-earned cash to decimate enemy troops, vehicles and buildings with deadly airstrikes.
• As a mercenary, you're free to go wherever you like and do whatever you want on this world stage.

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Back of Case - Playstation 2 (U.S.)

Mercenaries™ is an explosive third-person shooter that lets you play an elite mercenary in a completely interactive playground of destruction. No limits, no boundaries, no mercy.

• Massive interactive environments: If you can see it, you can use it, steal it, drive it, fly it, or blow it up.
• Flexible game play: Use your weapons and imagination to figure out how to complete missions in a variety of ways.
• Explosive combat: You have the firepower to lay waste to anything in sight. Choose from a huge arsenal of realistic military weapons.
• More than 70 military and civilian vehicles:Everything from tanks and cars to trucks and helicopters can be commandeered at anytime and used for any purpose.
• High-production action-movie experience: Step into a real-world-inspired story line in which a North Korea military coup creates a political hot zone and offers high-paying opportunities for well-trained mercenaries.

Source:

www.xbox.com