i remember playing this game, and after ejecting from a bike your character would face plant onto the floor with their legs twist forwards. it happened all the time, atleast for me
I loved that the piles of money and bombs got bigger the more you got and the bombs on display correlated to what you actually had available. I did however hate that the nuke that gets dropped at the end prevented you getting 100% completion if you didn't do everything before it happens.
Back when Mercenaries Two first came out, me and my college roommates, suitemates, were all way too into Halo 3 to really care. I didn't even think Mercenaries 2 was on my radar in 2008. My college suitemates would sneak into my room while I wasn't there and play Halo 3 without my permission, on my Xbox, but more importantly, they would look at my DVD collection. I had like 215 DVDs in alphabetical order and they would play a cruel joke where they would move two random titles in different places and see how long it would take me to notice. Yeah, I know that says a lot more about me then it does about them, but I could tell every time that was the joke. I would just scan briefly over my DVDs everyday and see if they had taken one was usually the issue wasn't-I wasn't checking to see if they put them out of order, I was checking because they would turn up MISSING. And then I would track them down and find someone across the hallway who borrowed one without asking and what do you know! The DVD is missing from inside of its jewel case! Where did it go? No one knows. Oh I found it, it's in two pieces now. No, I'm not still angry about that.
Broooo what i used to do is to go above a helicopter in a helicopter and then drop out of the first helicopter an grapple to the second below. The good days
The shear chaos of this game felt unmatched by anything back in the day. Great memories! It was also one of the first games to really have a different gameplay for ps2 and ps3, (it was a launch title for ps3 i believe)
I 100% get Jerma's stress involving the stupid fucking 'monster truck' mission. when I was playing that for the first time as a kid I swear I tried for at least 30 minutes before beating it, it's notoriously unforgiving
I have 100 percented the game a few times since I played it as a kid and that canyon jump still gives me anxiety even though I know exactly how to boost it
@PlebNC Have we seriously gotten to the "Back in my day..." stage in video gaming? Yes, some games focus more on graphics but not all, there are still plenty of fun and unique games especially in the indie scene
@@grumpysphinx4911 It's more that I've gotten old enough to have perspective of the past. Also I was talking more about mainstream game development where they have considerable budgets and therefore be able to choose between graphical fidelity and gameplay. Indie game devs have small budgets so they have to have good gameplay as otherwise they have nothing. Compare marketing of AAA games from a decade or 2 ago vs now. Previously it was all about innovative gameplay technology, destruction/physic engines and what they did better than before. Now, it's an endless slew of doing the same as before but in 4K with ray tracing at 60 FPS. Games sold on ambition that rarely meet that promise. Pretty games intended to be patched into acceptability later. Cyberpunk 2077? Battlefield 2042? Fallout 76? Pandemic Studios may have struggled to make their games pretty or polished, but being able to literally flattened cities made up for it.
This game was a large part of my childhood and seeing jerma experience the same struggles as baby me and handle it the same way is a transcence experience
Ohh i love this game! It was my favorite game in childhood. Had a fucked up version where enemies were screaming "THE ENEMY IS HERE" during every single fight without any other voice line, but i still loved Mercenaries 2 with all of my heart
This was legitimately my favorite game of all time and it was realistically an uncompleted mess of a game. I hope some day they come out with a mercenaries 3
I remember spending so long trying to beat the monster truck level as a kid and the fist time I nearly beat it another player co op joined on me, stole the monster truck and blew it up
I swear. The intro/title video for this game, has some of the hardest political tones I've ever seen in a game. And that's absent for like 95% of the game.
I played the PS2 and the 360 versions of this. Surprisingly they are both bangers even though they could not be more different from each other while being the same game lol. Played the first one too, for as jank as they are they were really good.
PSYCHO streamer only posts on SECOND channel alluding to how he MURDERED the actual KIND and SANE original FIRST streamer and now wears his FLESH disgustingly contorting it and FORCING it to make horrid noises beyond HUMAN COMPREHENSION
Holy shit I remember playing this game when I was a kid. I wanted to get GTA5 but my parents didn't let me so we went to a Gamestop and the clerk gave me this instead
Mercenaries 1 was all I played back in the day. Never got the chance to play the second one. One of the most terrifying things experiencing was going out of bounds and have the jet come after you to fuck your day up
@@stickmanbrains from what I saw here I definitely agree. I have tons of fond memories of that game, I dont think I'd have those same memories for this one had I also played it haha
not only does jeremy 985 have psychotic reaction time, he also has wits ans street smarts. this would make him invaluable as a mercenary or a sleeper agent if he so wanted
did anyone ever figure out how to bypass the connecting freeze glitch for multiplayer? ive always wanted to play coop for years but never had the chance to
Yes actually, you have to download command and conquer 3 I think. The demo should work fine. It would ask you to accept EAs terms of service as it was updated, you accept it and boom, Mercs 2 should work then
I loved playing this when I was younger, I was devastated when the disk became unreadable. Also how do you get this game in 2022, other than used copies? Kind of want to revisit it.
oh my god this game has a physics engine that’s DESIGNED to make jerma laugh
I absolutely loved playing this game when I was younger, but I hated watching Jerma play it.
i remember playing this game, and after ejecting from a bike your character would face plant onto the floor with their legs twist forwards. it happened all the time, atleast for me
This game fucking ROCKED in my childhood. Being able to call down missile strikes on groups of buildings never got old.
Terrorism
@@Duane57557 Terrorism
Seeing jerma experience the same struggles as baby me and handling it the same way is a transcence experience.
bro i logged so many hours in this game when i was younger. no shame using cheats to have unlimited of every strike and fuel lmao
committing warcrimes is very fun in this game.
Jerma, the only streamer to deliberately test if a game allows you to Ghostride the car
Its because vehicular carnage CRACKS him up
@@Freekymoho that is very true!
No I would do that too
@@greenoftreeblackofblue6625 but you're not a streamer
Ghostride the whip!
I used to play the shit out of Mercenaries 2 when I was younger. All I did was try to grapple onto helicopters.
I loved that the piles of money and bombs got bigger the more you got and the bombs on display correlated to what you actually had available.
I did however hate that the nuke that gets dropped at the end prevented you getting 100% completion if you didn't do everything before it happens.
Back when Mercenaries Two first came out, me and my college roommates, suitemates, were all way too into Halo 3 to really care. I didn't even think Mercenaries 2 was on my radar in 2008. My college suitemates would sneak into my room while I wasn't there and play Halo 3 without my permission, on my Xbox, but more importantly, they would look at my DVD collection. I had like 215 DVDs in alphabetical order and they would play a cruel joke where they would move two random titles in different places and see how long it would take me to notice. Yeah, I know that says a lot more about me then it does about them, but I could tell every time that was the joke. I would just scan briefly over my DVDs everyday and see if they had taken one was usually the issue wasn't-I wasn't checking to see if they put them out of order, I was checking because they would turn up MISSING. And then I would track them down and find someone across the hallway who borrowed one without asking and what do you know! The DVD is missing from inside of its jewel case! Where did it go? No one knows. Oh I found it, it's in two pieces now. No, I'm not still angry about that.
@@2rad4rio k
and did all the button prompts just show a symbol representing the action instead of actually telling you what key it is?
Broooo what i used to do is to go above a helicopter in a helicopter and then drop out of the first helicopter an grapple to the second below. The good days
4:22 everything about this clip is great
The launch
The tree
The landing
Jerma’s laugh
The crash
The swam dive
3:23 This 20 second scene literally breaks every single basic rule of cinematography at some point, some multiple times
I remember playing this game for hundreds of hours as a kid because I wasn't allowed to play GTA IV lmao
man, i remember playing online all day long on xbox live with random people i probably will never see again, good times
This game was god tier i loved playing this growing up, being able to call in tactical nukes on the citys massive Military's structure
Irony
The only difference between a T and an M rating are a few swear words.
For me it was San Andreas, but this game was so much fucking fun in it's own league.
Remember EA killed the studio responsible for this fantastic game series >:(
EA’s list of crimes is almost as long as jerma’s
I still hate EA purely for killing that studio :(
Same studio that made battlefront R.I.P
This and their killing of Visceral is EA's biggest war crimes.
@@SirDankleberry they also murdered maxis and castrated spore.
15:40 Jerma displays his incredible depth perception
The shear chaos of this game felt unmatched by anything back in the day. Great memories! It was also one of the first games to really have a different gameplay for ps2 and ps3, (it was a launch title for ps3 i believe)
The sheer joy that Jerma gets from launching into the air immediately after getting the motorcycle 4:20 is going to be stuck with me for years
I 100% get Jerma's stress involving the stupid fucking 'monster truck' mission. when I was playing that for the first time as a kid I swear I tried for at least 30 minutes before beating it, it's notoriously unforgiving
It's crazy how I played SO MUCH Mercenaries 2 and don't remember that mission at all.
Huh, I never had an issue with that one but I had SO many issues at the end, game would always freeze up during the boat mission for the Jamaican guy
I have 100 percented the game a few times since I played it as a kid and that canyon jump still gives me anxiety even though I know exactly how to boost it
I can still hear the music
Did you try getting good?
This and Mercs 1, as well as Just Cause have to be some of my favourite games of all time
Back in the good old days when games were all about what you could do in them not how good the ray tracing and eyelash rendering is.
@PlebNC Have we seriously gotten to the "Back in my day..." stage in video gaming? Yes, some games focus more on graphics but not all, there are still plenty of fun and unique games especially in the indie scene
This game has better destruction than Battlefield 2042
Mercs 1 > 2 IMO
@@grumpysphinx4911 It's more that I've gotten old enough to have perspective of the past. Also I was talking more about mainstream game development where they have considerable budgets and therefore be able to choose between graphical fidelity and gameplay. Indie game devs have small budgets so they have to have good gameplay as otherwise they have nothing.
Compare marketing of AAA games from a decade or 2 ago vs now.
Previously it was all about innovative gameplay technology, destruction/physic engines and what they did better than before.
Now, it's an endless slew of doing the same as before but in 4K with ray tracing at 60 FPS. Games sold on ambition that rarely meet that promise. Pretty games intended to be patched into acceptability later.
Cyberpunk 2077? Battlefield 2042? Fallout 76?
Pandemic Studios may have struggled to make their games pretty or polished, but being able to literally flattened cities made up for it.
“It’s Jen, she’s friendly!”
“You’re my hero!”
5 seconds later
“That merc is shootin the crap outta us!”
To be fair, 17 people immediately unloaded on her as soon as she helped them
This game was so fucking good IDC what anyone says. My entire childhood right here.
based and truepilled
The first game was a masterpiece
The first game was great, this one was bad but had some dumb fun anyway
M1 was way better
@@samw2670 L take
This game was a large part of my childhood and seeing jerma experience the same struggles as baby me and handle it the same way is a transcence experience
Jermas popcorn is always perfect, not because he’s afraid of it being burnt but because he’s afraid of it exploding
6:34 a car swerves out of the way because Jerma is driving on the wrong side of the road
Jerma: "what the hell was that?"
Jerma is British CONFIRMED
destroy build destroy was an INTEGRAL part of my childhood. thank you editor for including that clip in the intro.
Jerma can’t keep getting away with this
Dont put Jerma in a self defense situation
Can't hide from Jerma Hyde.
Jerma Al Hajeed
I fucking love this community.
Jerma aka the Ghost of Kiev
wow Destroy Build Destroy was my favorite show back in the day on Cartoon Network.. thanks for the nostalgia trip
It was the only enjoyable CN Real show.
@@warbossgegguz679 Hole In The Wall was a good one too
24:42 is just such a hilariously chaotic moment I love it
I remember spending all of my time in this game destroying the lives of civilians by meticulously demolishing every single building in Maracaibo
calm down there jerma
Today I learned Jerma's fear of microwaves actually stems from a fear of popcorn
This game was made for Jerma to play
RIP One of the greatest games that ever existed. I still pray that Pandemic Studios rises from the dead and makes a 3rd game.
Ohh i love this game! It was my favorite game in childhood. Had a fucked up version where enemies were screaming "THE ENEMY IS HERE" during every single fight without any other voice line, but i still loved Mercenaries 2 with all of my heart
The song Oh no from this game is still one of my favourites
This was legitimately my favorite game of all time and it was realistically an uncompleted mess of a game. I hope some day they come out with a mercenaries 3
28:31 Funny man make a funny noise.
if the devs for this game read these comments they would cry tears of happiness
Hi Devs, thanks for literally thousands of hours of joy with mercs 1+2
Pandemic Studios. They made one last game after this then they got shut down by EA. Thanks, EA.
I remember getting this game from a sale at a local blockbuster that was going out of business. Gave me so many good memories.
Biggest mistake Jerma made was not playing as Matthias Niellson, the single greatest protagonist in any game.
Shame he didn't play as Mattias, he's voiced by Peter Stormare and has some iconic lines.
4:21 the goofiest sounding motorcycle I've ever heard.
this game is more technologically advanced than battlefield 2042
I love the "idk what's going on" after he, seemingly intentionally, sabotages himself
Hearing Jerma talk about how he plays battlefield really makes me feel a lot better about my Battlefield performance.
God I used to play the hell out of this
That's a weird lookin' sylveon.
I love your username
I love this game
Im so happy jerma covered it
Its a glitchy mess i love it
This really does look like a gta mod.
Where's the long fingers, where's the ability to sprunk yourself
2/10
I remember spending so long trying to beat the monster truck level as a kid and the fist time I nearly beat it another player co op joined on me, stole the monster truck and blew it up
Just Cause Who? - Electric Boogaloo
Jerma laughs at more vehicle accidents
8:56 almost made me start crying laughing
I swear. The intro/title video for this game, has some of the hardest political tones I've ever seen in a game. And that's absent for like 95% of the game.
we have just cause 2 at home
woo bumper cars
"ENEMY IS HERE!"
Original Mercs was amazing. This was fun, but broken. I wish they would bring it back. RIP Pandemic Studios.
The monster truck mission haunted me as a kid
the squeak laugh at 4:24 will always be funny
I played the PS2 and the 360 versions of this. Surprisingly they are both bangers even though they could not be more different from each other while being the same game lol. Played the first one too, for as jank as they are they were really good.
Finally. Car Accident Simulator 2.
I want him to finish this game. It was my admittedly poor childhood's primary game.
Dude I fucking loved Destory Build Destroy
so glad to see someone playing this. both these games were so fun
There is nothing in this word that gives me more second hand panic the jerma's fake panic bits
25:30 - The perfect clown car
I heard the UI and got sent into a nostalgia trip from Mercs 1
PSYCHO streamer only posts on SECOND channel alluding to how he MURDERED the actual KIND and SANE original FIRST streamer and now wears his FLESH disgustingly contorting it and FORCING it to make horrid noises beyond HUMAN COMPREHENSION
🎶 Oh no you didn't!
Oh no you didn't!
Didn't you, Oh no!
You didn't pay me what you owe me...
So now it's over for you! 🎵
29:01 why do i know exactly what Nickelodeon Funny Machine he's talking about. memory unlocked
4:23 right after i hear the "ËÂ" i knew jerma would enjoy this game
YOOOOOOOOO this is nostalgia trip for me I loved playing this when I was 13
I love the way she runs around with the dragunov like its a damn purse
I played this game so much as a kid and Jerma somehow STILL managed to find a bunch of glitches that I've NEVER seen before
You just reignited memories of destroy build destroy, holy shit I forgot about that show
Holy shit I remember playing this game when I was a kid. I wanted to get GTA5 but my parents didn't let me so we went to a Gamestop and the clerk gave me this instead
The clerk was saving you from mediocrity and offered you sanctuary, you should thank them.
The New Grand Just Cause FarCryCharted looks great!
This game came out before gta4, far cry 3, and uncharted 2. Actually unironically ahead of its time
Jerma playing one of my childhood favorites? Can life get any better?
I fucking loved this game as a kid. I remember getting the cheat codes and just feul air bombing everything. Great memories
Bombing oil rings for mighty explosions, bombing bridges but now dealing with issues traveling around the map.
A memory to remember
this feels so much like an old jerma video
I had a poster for this game, which is to say an ad.
It was a huge dollar bill with the character's face on it.
That one was over my table for years.
I need to see more of this game
Holy shit I loved this game when it came out
This game was amazing, I remember nuking a football pitch in the first game, good times
I would give anything to play Mercs 2 again.
25:17 Mercenary Clown Car
Mercenaries 1 was all I played back in the day. Never got the chance to play the second one. One of the most terrifying things experiencing was going out of bounds and have the jet come after you to fuck your day up
Mercenaries 1 was better anyway imo
@@stickmanbrains from what I saw here I definitely agree. I have tons of fond memories of that game, I dont think I'd have those same memories for this one had I also played it haha
I must have played hundreds of hours of this game, this video brings back so many memories
This broken-ass game brought me tons joy as a kid.
I remember doing the stronghold missions and just employ hostile factions and just take their HQ over. Mad fun for a child.
every open-world game can be played like GTA if you want to
9:43 Jerma stops pretending for ONE second and reveals complete indifference toward taking innocent lives in vehicular accidents
I’ve been thinking of this game for weeks Jerma needs to stay out of my head
1:34 the inner byeah comes out
not only does jeremy 985 have psychotic reaction time, he also has wits ans street smarts. this would make him invaluable as a mercenary or a sleeper agent if he so wanted
I don’t know what this is but it has to be the most video-gamey looking video game I ever did see.
this was like my favorite game growing up
I remember this game Pretty well and I miss playin it
did anyone ever figure out how to bypass the connecting freeze glitch for multiplayer? ive always wanted to play coop for years but never had the chance to
Yes actually, you have to download command and conquer 3 I think. The demo should work fine.
It would ask you to accept EAs terms of service as it was updated, you accept it and boom, Mercs 2 should work then
@@N_Wah i will definitely try that, thank you so much!
Just Cause used this game as its format. I loved this game series as a kid; I had it on PS2 and then this one on PS3.
every time a game gets "next"'d by chat, jerma never plays it again
I really remember liking this game back when, especially the co-op. I always thought the PC version was unplayable due to GFWL or something
This was honestly the best game of my teenage years
The funny man in the screen did the thing!
i miss this game
What a throwback this is
I loved playing this when I was younger, I was devastated when the disk became unreadable. Also how do you get this game in 2022, other than used copies? Kind of want to revisit it.