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Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction

Index Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction

Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction (also known as simply Mercenaries) is an action-adventure video game developed by Pandemic Studios and published in 2005 by LucasArts for PlayStation 2 and Xbox. [1]

90 relations: Ace, Ace of spades, Action-adventure game, Black market, Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, Bribery, Cameron Brown (game director), Carl Weathers, Cheating in video games, Chris Tilton, Contra (video game), Coup d'état, Delta Force, Detroit Free Press, DICE Los Angeles, Edge (magazine), Electronic Arts, Electronic Gaming Monthly, Ellen Meijers, Eurogamer, Executive Outcomes, Face card, Famitsu, Full Spectrum Warrior, Game Informer, Game Rating and Administration Committee, Game Revolution, GamePro, GameSpot, GameSpy, Glossary of video game terms, Grand Theft Auto, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Han Solo, IGN, Indiana Jones, Intercontinental ballistic missile, Jennifer Hale, Korean Demilitarized Zone, Korean language, Korean reunification, List of PlayStation 2 Classics for PlayStation 3, Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, LucasArts, Maxim (magazine), Mercenaries (series), Mercenaries 2: World in Flames, Mercenary, Metacritic, Metal Gear Solid, ..., Michael Giacchino, Microsoft Windows, Most-wanted Iraqi playing cards, NeoGAF, North Korea, Northwest Sinfonia, Nuclear warfare, Nuclear weapon, Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine, Official Xbox Magazine, Open world, Pandemic Studios, Peter Stormare, Phil LaMarr, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Network, PlayStation Store, Private military company, Profit (economics), Review aggregator, Russian language, Russian mafia, Secret Intelligence Service, Single-player video game, Standard Chinese, Stealth game, Sunshine Policy, Swedish Navy, The New York Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Times, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2, Travis Air Force Base, Video game, War, Xbox (console), Xbox 360, Xbox Games Store, Zero (game engine). Expand index (40 more) »

Ace

An ace is a playing card, die or domino with a single pip.

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Ace of spades

The ace of spades (also known as the spadille) is traditionally the highest card in the deck of playing cards, at least in English-speaking countries.

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Action-adventure game

The action-adventure video game genre includes video games that combine core elements from the action and adventure genres.

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Black market

A black market, underground economy, or shadow economy is a clandestine market or transaction that has some aspect of illegality or is characterized by some form of noncompliant behavior with an institutional set of rules.

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Boeing C-17 Globemaster III

The Boeing C-17 Globemaster III is a large military transport aircraft.

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Bribery

Bribery is the act of giving or receiving something of value in exchange for some kind of influence or action in return, that the recipient would otherwise not alter.

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Cameron Brown (game director)

Cameron Brown is a video game director.

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Carl Weathers

Carl Weathers (born January 14, 1948) is an American actor and former professional football player.

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Cheating in video games

Cheating in video games involves a video game player using non-standard methods to create an advantage or disadvantage beyond normal gameplay, in order to make the game easier or harder.

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Chris Tilton

Chris Tilton (born June 9, 1979 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States) is an American soundtrack composer and has helped compose several television, film and video game scores.

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Contra (video game)

Contra, distributed as Gryzor in Europe and Oceania, is a run and gun action game developed and published by Konami originally released as a coin-operated arcade game on February 20, 1987.

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Coup d'état

A coup d'état, also known simply as a coup, a putsch, golpe de estado, or an overthrow, is a type of revolution, where the illegal and overt seizure of a state by the military or other elites within the state apparatus occurs.

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Delta Force

The 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (1st SFOD-D), commonly referred to as Delta Force, Combat Applications Group (CAG), "The Unit", Army Compartmented Element (ACE), or within JSOC as Task Force Green, is an elite special mission unit of the United States Army, under operational control of the Joint Special Operations Command.

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Detroit Free Press

The Detroit Free Press is the largest daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, US.

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DICE Los Angeles

DICE Los Angeles (formerly DreamWorks Interactive L.L.C., EA Los Angeles and Danger Close Games) is an American video game developer and a division of EA DICE.

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Edge (magazine)

Edge is a multi-format video game magazine published by Future plc in the United Kingdom, which publishes 13 issues of the magazine per year.

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Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California.

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Electronic Gaming Monthly

Electronic Gaming Monthly (often abbreviated to EGM) is a monthly American video game magazine.

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Ellen Meijers

Ellen Meijers is a Dutch video game music composer who worked for such companies as Apple Inc., LucasArts, Oddworld Inhabitants and Crystal Dynamics.

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Eurogamer

Eurogamer is a website focused on video game journalism, reviews, and other features.

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Executive Outcomes

Executive Outcomes was a private military company (PMC) founded in South Africa by Eeben Barlow, a former lieutenant-colonel of the South African Defence Force, in 1989.

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Face card

In a deck of playing cards, the term face card (US) or court card (British) is generally used to describe a card that depicts a person as opposed to the pip cards.

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Famitsu

is a line of Japanese video game magazines published by Enterbrain, Inc. and Tokuma.

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Full Spectrum Warrior

Full Spectrum Warrior is a real-time tactics videogame.

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Game Informer

Game Informer (GI) is an American monthly video game magazine featuring articles, news, strategy, and reviews of video games and associated consoles.

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Game Rating and Administration Committee

The Game Rating and Administration Committee (GRAC) is the South Korean video game content rating board.

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Game Revolution

Game Revolution (formerly Game-Revolution) or GR is a gaming website created in 1996.

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GamePro

GamePro was an American multiplatform video game magazine media company that published online and print content covering the video game industry, video game hardware and video game software.

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GameSpot

GameSpot is a video gaming website that provides news, reviews, previews, downloads, and other information on video games.

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GameSpy

GameSpy was a provider of online multiplayer and matchmaking middleware for video games.

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Glossary of video game terms

This is a glossary of video game terms which lists the general terms as commonly used in Wikipedia articles related to video games and its industry.

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Grand Theft Auto

Grand Theft Auto (GTA) is an action-adventure video game series created by David Jones and Mike Dailly; the later titles of which were created by brothers Dan and Sam Houser, Leslie Benzies and Aaron Garbut.

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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is an action-adventure video game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games.

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Han Solo

Han Solo is a fictional character in the ''Star Wars'' franchise.

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IGN

IGN (formerly Imagine Games Network) is an American video game and entertainment media company operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis wholly owned by j2 Global.

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Indiana Jones

Dr.

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Intercontinental ballistic missile

An intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is a guided ballistic missile with a minimum range of primarily designed for nuclear weapons delivery (delivering one or more thermonuclear warheads).

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Jennifer Hale

Jennifer Hale is a Canadian-American voice actress best known for her work in video game franchises including Baldur's Gate, Mass Effect, Metal Gear Solid, Spider-Man, BioShock Infinite, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.

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Korean Demilitarized Zone

The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ; Chosŏn'gŭl/Hangul: 한반도 비무장 지대; Hanja: 韓半島非武裝地帶) is a strip of land running across the Korean Peninsula.

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Korean language

The Korean language (Chosŏn'gŭl/Hangul: 조선말/한국어; Hanja: 朝鮮말/韓國語) is an East Asian language spoken by about 80 million people.

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Korean reunification

Korean reunification (통일, 統一) refers to the potential reunification of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (commonly known as North Korea), the Republic of Korea (commonly known as South Korea), and the Korean Demilitarized Zone under a single government.

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List of PlayStation 2 Classics for PlayStation 3

This is a list of downloadable PlayStation 2 games to be purchased from the PlayStation Store for Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) video game console in all regions.

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Lockheed C-5 Galaxy

The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy is a large military transport aircraft originally designed and built by Lockheed, and now maintained and upgraded by its successor, Lockheed Martin.

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LucasArts

LucasArts Entertainment Company, LLC is an American video game publisher and licensor.

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Maxim (magazine)

Maxim is an international men's magazine, devised and launched in the UK in 1995, but based in New York City since 1997, and prominent for its photography of actresses, singers, and female models whose careers are at a current peak.

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Mercenaries (series)

Mercenaries is a video game franchise published by LucasArts and developed by Pandemic Studios.

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Mercenaries 2: World in Flames

Mercenaries 2: World in Flames is an action-adventure video game developed by Pandemic Studios and published by Electronic Arts.

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Mercenary

A mercenary is an individual who is hired to take part in an armed conflict but is not part of a regular army or other governmental military force.

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Metacritic

Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products: music albums, video games, films, TV shows, and formerly, books.

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Metal Gear Solid

Metal Gear Solid is an action-adventure stealth video game produced by Konami Computer Entertainment Japan and released for the PlayStation in 1998.

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Michael Giacchino

Michael Giacchino (born October 10, 1967) is an American composer of music for films, television and video games.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a group of several graphical operating system families, all of which are developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft.

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Most-wanted Iraqi playing cards

During the 2003 invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition, the U.S. military developed a set of playing cards to help troops identify the most-wanted members of President Saddam Hussein's government, mostly high-ranking members of the Iraqi Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party or members of the Revolutionary Command Council.

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NeoGAF

NeoGAF, formerly known as the Gaming-Age Forums, is an Internet forum that discusses video games, founded as an adjunct to Gaming-Age, a video game news website.

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North Korea

North Korea (Chosŏn'gŭl:조선; Hanja:朝鮮; Chosŏn), officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (abbreviated as DPRK, PRK, DPR Korea, or Korea DPR), is a country in East Asia constituting the northern part of the Korean Peninsula.

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Northwest Sinfonia

The Northwest Sinfonia is a symphonic orchestra based in Seattle, mostly renowned for recording soundtracks to motion pictures and computer games.

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Nuclear warfare

Nuclear warfare (sometimes atomic warfare or thermonuclear warfare) is a military conflict or political strategy in which nuclear weaponry is used to inflict damage on the enemy.

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Nuclear weapon

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or from a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb).

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Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine

Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine (often abbreviated to OPM) is a now-defunct monthly video game magazine, published by Ziff Davis Media.

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Official Xbox Magazine

Official Xbox Magazine (or OXM for short) is a monthly video game magazine which started in November 2001 around the launch of the original Xbox.

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Open world

An open world in video games is a virtual world in which the player can explore and approach objectives freely, as opposed to a world with more linear gameplay.

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Pandemic Studios

Pandemic Studios was an independent developer founded in 1998.

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Peter Stormare

Rolf Peter Ingvar Storm (born 27 August 1953), known professionally as Peter Stormare, is a Swedish actor, voice actor, theatre director, playwright and musician active in the United States.

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Phil LaMarr

Phillip LaMarr (born January 24, 1967) is an American actor, voice actor, comedian and impressionist.

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PlayStation 2

The PlayStation 2 (PS2) is a home video game console that was developed by Sony Computer Entertainment.

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PlayStation 3

The PlayStation 3 (PS3) is a home video game console developed by Sony Computer Entertainment.

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PlayStation Network

PlayStation Network (PSN) is a digital media entertainment service provided by Sony Interactive Entertainment.

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PlayStation Store

The PlayStation Store (also abbreviated as PSN Store) is a digital media store available to users of Sony's PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and PlayStation Portable game consoles via the PlayStation Network.

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Private military company

A private military company (PMC) is a private company providing armed combat or security services.

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Profit (economics)

In economics, profit in the accounting sense of the excess of revenue over cost is the sum of two components: normal profit and economic profit.

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Review aggregator

A review aggregator is a system that collects reviews of products and services (such as films, books, video games, software, hardware and cars).

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Russian language

Russian (rússkiy yazýk) is an East Slavic language, which is official in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as being widely spoken throughout Eastern Europe, the Baltic states, the Caucasus and Central Asia.

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Russian mafia

Russian organized crime or Russian mafia, sometimes referred to as Bratva ("brotherhood"), is a collective of various organized crime elements originating in the former Soviet Union.

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Secret Intelligence Service

The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6, is the foreign intelligence service of the government of the United Kingdom, tasked mainly with the covert overseas collection and analysis of human intelligence (HUMINT) in support of the UK's national security.

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Single-player video game

A single-player video game is a video game where input from only one player is expected throughout the course of the gaming session.

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Standard Chinese

Standard Chinese, also known as Modern Standard Mandarin, Standard Mandarin, or simply Mandarin, is a standard variety of Chinese that is the sole official language of both China and Taiwan (de facto), and also one of the four official languages of Singapore.

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Stealth game

A stealth game is a type of video game in which the player primarily uses stealth to avoid or overcome antagonists.

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Sunshine Policy

The Sunshine Policy refers to the theoretical basis for South Korea's foreign policy towards North Korea.

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Swedish Navy

The Swedish Royal Navy (Svenska marinen) is the naval branch of the Swedish Armed Forces.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2 is a tactical shooter video game developed by Red Storm Entertainment and published by Ubisoft for Xbox, PlayStation 2 and GameCube.

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Travis Air Force Base

Travis Air Force Base is a United States Air Force air base under the operational control of the Air Mobility Command (AMC), located three miles (5 km) east of the central business district of Fairfield, in Solano County, California, United States.

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Video game

A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor.

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War

War is a state of armed conflict between states, societies and informal groups, such as insurgents and militias.

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Xbox (console)

The Xbox is a home video game console and the first installment in the Xbox series of consoles manufactured by Microsoft.

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Xbox 360

The Xbox 360 is a home video game console developed by Microsoft.

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Xbox Games Store

Xbox Games Store (formerly Xbox Live Marketplace) was a digital distribution platform used by Microsoft's Xbox One and Xbox 360 video game consoles.

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Zero (game engine)

ZeroStar Wars: The Clone Wars "making of" video is a proprietary game engine created by Pandemic Studios.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercenaries:_Playground_of_Destruction

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