It’s finally real: a box, a manual, xbox live, tv commercials, in game ads, a players guide, posters and a gas station.. rad. Playing online last night, I got a little insight from looking at our leader boards: roughly 2000 scores had been uploaded by 9pm and 3 users had already uploaded billionare scores, holy crap! And three days before the game is even out, that’s diehard. I imagine the smaller retailers regularly try to gain an edge by breaking their street dates. Though, I wonder what people think about the game’s releases being on a Sunday before Labor day.
For anyone planning on picking up Mercs (officially available Aug 31st), I may have a present for you. Xbox Live is holding a special ‘play with developers’ session where a dozen or so Mercs developers will be playing co-op with joe public. Anyone lucky enough to play with us will be among the first to add our viral achievements to their gamercard and can subsequently spread that achievement to their friends. The play session will be going on between 9/5/08 – 9/13/08. As we get closer to that time, I’ll post up some more information.
The time is here, but my Xbox Live friends list is full! If anyone reads this and wants to snag some achievement points and/or talk to a mercs2 developer just leave a comment with your gamertag and I’ll add you.
Links:
Mercs2 Gas Giveaway [1up]
Mercs 2 Commercial [and youtube remixes]