This afternoon Electronic Arts posted a link to survey on their Twitter profile concerning the future of the Mercenaries franchise. While video game companies conducting surveys isn’t a big deal it should be noted that the Mercenaries survey, which was only available to the first 200 people to take it, brought up some potential drastic changes to the series.
Aside from standard questions like “How did you like the game” and “Who was your favorite Mercenary” the survey asked gamers if they would still purchase future Mercenaries installments if the game wasn’t open world and instead mission based. Other questions included a create character mode, various multiplayer modes, futuristic military weapons, and an open world setting in a country with the possibility of traveling between cities or instead traveling between countries.
Of course we shouldn’t read too deep into this type of thing since companies are always trying to gauge the interest of the consumer but it’ll be interesting to see if we do indeed see some of these changes since Mercenaries 2 was a bit of a commercial and critical disappointment.
Great find Ian. I had high hopes for Mercs 2 but the bugs along with the mediocre graphics and game play just killed it for me :( I like the idea of the series though. Really likes the PS2 launch.