Pandemic have been quick to embrace their new Mercenaries publishers EA, saying that while "Lucas was a great partner for us on Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction...EA will be a great partner on Mercenaries 2: World in Flames".

Couldn't hurt to make nice with the new boss, I guess, but I wonder how happy they'll be when they're churning out Mercenaries 2010: World Cup Edition? At least they've got a new engine to play with:

We've built a new engine from the ground up. Mercenaries 2 is built on a totally new next-gen engine that will allow our bad-ass Mercs to take the action to a level that wasn't possible on earlier platforms.

Aside from dealing with the scale and detail of next generation games, the engine has a fundamentally different architecture to deliver a much bigger open-world experience.

Which is all well and good, but the problem with Mercenaries wasn't the size of the map, it was the complete lack of anything to do while on it. Bigger isn't always better, is it ladies? Well....is...it? You know what, don't answer that. Luke Plunkett

EA is 'best fit' for Mercenaries 2, says Pandemic [Gamesindustry]

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