Mercenaries 2 Tapping Only 30% of the PS3’s Potential

In a Q&A session done on the official Mercenaries 2 forums, Lead Designer Scott Warner has revealed that Mercenaries 2 – like many other games shown at E3 – is only tapping 30% of the Playstation 3’s potential. Seeing how this game features such a vast, dynamic world with very nice graphics (judging from the early screenshots), this is a rather impressive fact.

But it also brings up this question: Why don’t they tap the full potential just now? Perhaps there are certain constraints only developers can understand, but I see no reason not using that leftover power, to, for example, improve the destruction aspects of the game even more, or add a bunch of effects. I think there was a similar comment made in regard to Gears Of War on the Xbox 360 and that statement struck me as equally odd. Maybe someone will explain this mystery to me.

The Q&A session also revealed a few other interesting facts – for example, that the freeplay content (optional missions and such) will be vastly expanded from the original game, and ragdolls will be introduced.

So far, Mercenaries 2 is definitely shaping up to be a great game. I absolutey loved the first game, but I always felt that it really needed the power of next-gen consoles to fully realize it’s over-the-top ambitions of complete mayhem and destruction. Apparently, the time has come.

In a Q&A session done on the official Mercenaries 2 forums, Lead Designer Scott Warner has revealed that Mercenaries 2 – like many other games shown at E3 – is only tapping 30% of the Playstation 3’s potential. Seeing how this game features such a vast, dynamic world with very nice graphics (judging from the early screenshots), this is a rather impressive fact.

But it also brings up this question: Why don’t they tap the full potential just now? Perhaps there are certain constraints only developers can understand, but I see no reason not using that leftover power, to, for example, improve the destruction aspects of the game even more, or add a bunch of effects. I think there was a similar comment made in regard to Gears Of War on the Xbox 360 and that statement struck me as equally odd. Maybe someone will explain this mystery to me.

The Q&A session also revealed a few other interesting facts – for example, that the freeplay content (optional missions and such) will be vastly expanded from the original game, and ragdolls will be introduced.

So far, Mercenaries 2 is definitely shaping up to be a great game. I absolutey loved the first game, but I always felt that it really needed the power of next-gen consoles to fully realize it’s over-the-top ambitions of complete mayhem and destruction. Apparently, the time has come.