NEWS - Monday, March 15, 2004
Mercenaries To Use Havoc Physics
LucasArts has just finished making a first showing of its brand new PS2 and Xbox action title, Mercenaries, at a London event, and revealed that the Pandemic-developed third-person shooter - previously known only by its internal moniker Project Y - will use the Havok physics engine that so endeared us to Max Payne 2, and stunned us with its role in Valve’s much celebrated E3 presentation of Half-Life 2 last year. As regular readers will know from our previous report on the subject, Mercenaries sees four armies fighting over the remains of North Korea in the aftermath of a catastrophic conflict. One onlooker who made it to today’s presentation echoed recent sentiments that the game is more GTA than Ghost Recon, complete with a heavily influential role for the game’s vehicles. Although in actual fact our source described it as "GTA crossed with Freedom Fighters: loads of guns and killings."Source: http://www.eurogamer.net/
