It was just OK.
The "Blow stuff up" tag line is a little misleading. You would think you could do that at the beginning of the game, right? Wrong. Even a few missions into the game, your options of blowing stuff up is limited at best.
For someone who has a severe back log of games (San Andreas, MGS3, SH4, NFS:U2, and now GT4 and God of War), its just not worth slugging through another game.
There are rumors that Mercenaries should have been EA's next game in the Strike series. For those who don't remember, the Strike series was the isometric helicopter shooting game way back on the SNES, 3D0, Genesis, and PSX. Supposedly, EA didn't like how the development was going, so they dropped Pandemic and LucasArts picked the game up. When Pandemic jumped ship, they changed the game around into a open ended game that we now know as Mercenaries.
I would have loved a new Strike game.
