The first game, Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction, would launch in 2005 on PS2 and the original Xbox, developed by Pandemic and published by LucasArts. The only bad thing about them from a hindsight perspective is their name, but that’s a whole other story. While everyone loves their golden child of Star Wars: Battlefront 2, the team were also responsible for Destroy All Humans, The Lord of the Rings: Conquest and, of course, Mercenaries. Mercenaries was the product of Pandemic Studios, who might just have been one of the most underappreciated game development houses in history. Currently, Mercenaries has been dormant for nearly 15 years, but with the Xbox Series X | S and PS5 offering new capabilities, we’re asking the question: will Mercenaries ever make a comeback? Fortunately, one game took a more novel approach to open worlds, creating an ambitious and memorable thrill ride as a result: Mercenaries.Ī bombastic affair, Mercenaries went as quickly as it came (stop giggling at the back), with only two released games in the series, but there were bigger plans to expand the franchise that unfortunately never saw the light of day. Outside of Grand Theft Auto, which pioneered being able to muck about in a consequence free playground, the open world genre struggled to find its feet in the midst of pale imitators. Back in the mid-2000s, the open world genre was still trying to find its feet.
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