Decker

Little Preview for Mercenary Kings which is free for PlayStation Plus and is up now. Not that it means anything, but it's the first $19.99 game they've given away. maybe it's got more content than the other freebies?


Mercenary Kings Out Today on PS4
+ Posted by Yannick Belzil on Apr 01, 2014 // Writer, Tribute Games



Here it is! The most anticipated day of 2014 from all of us at Tribute Games: the launch of Mercenary Kings on PS4!

It’s a thrill for us to finally share this labor of love (and explosions, tanks, maniacal warlords…) with all of you. Mercenary Kings air drops you into a colorful world of stylized, cartoonish warfare. When the Cybernetic Loyalist Active Weapon clan (CLAW) steals the Mandrake Formula, capable of reshaping any living thing into a dangerous weapon, King and Empress are sent in to retrieve it. CLAW’s leader, Commander Byron Baron — aided with his dog Alpha and a cloned army of miscreants — controls the entire laboratory base of Mandragora Island and seeks to make it the birthplace of a new, terrifying age.

Assisted by their own crew of experts, the Kings take on a multitude of missions where they must slice and blast their way through Baron’s band of bad guys, retrieve the formula, and save global peace.



Mercenary Kings might feel like something from the 16-bit past, but — like the Kings’ weapons — it’s crafted with brand new pieces into an explosive, modern package. Vanquished enemies drop a variety of materials that you can later craft into almost anything to give you an edge against CLAW. You can build with more than 300 firearm parts to mix and match into any weapon you can think of.

Build a scary-looking rifle, or a toilet-shaped machine gun. Or forge impressive or incredibly silly blades. Scavenged parts can be made into stronger armor, or turned into bio-mods, upgrading your mercenary’s strengths and reducing his weaknesses. Fruits from the jungle become ability-granting meals. Mercenary Kings’ boasts IMMENSE crafting mechanics that spread throughout the gameplay.

The areas in which you find these materials are not mere obstacle courses, but huge environments in which you can explore and find new treasures, fulfill secret mission objectives, hunt massive bosses, or find hidden resistance operatives.



Sometimes, a mission might just seem TOO BIG for one mercenary. But that’s no problem, because Mercenary Kings offers multiplayer options (both online and local) and three other mercenaries can join in on the CLAW-smashing fun. Is there a better way to cement friendship than going out and toppling a madman’s empire? We don’t think so.

Do you want to join the fight against Commander Baron? Mercenary Kings is available for PS4 on PlayStation Store today! Time to grab a controller and get ready to kick some CLAW!

musick

some good The Show (PS3) impressions
http://www.operationsports.com/forum...unity-ps3.html

slop101

Well, since I was gonna buy it anyways, it'll be the game that finally gets me to sign up for +, as I'm sure they'll easily have more than $30 worth of freebies through + for the rest of the year.

redrum

A free ps4 game every month is awesome, no matter what it is

dsa_shea

I'm glad Mercenary Kings is free as I would have been pissed off to pay for it. There are some sections in the very first level where you can't avoid taking damage. I wanted to like it but I don't have the patience anymore.

slop101

Yeah, it's pretty old-school in that regard, just like how it looks. I don't like how it tells you your backpack is full, but you can't dump stuff to pick up something else. That's just stupid. I'd also like to be able to change the controls, like the reload to the trigger instead of the shoulder, but nope, no such option.

RichC2

Gamestop is holding an upgrade promotion for MLB: The Show. The PS3 version will trade for $40 so you can get the PS4 version for $20.

It's a rip off but hey it's better than $35 I guess.

dsa_shea

So I would have to buy the PS3 version for 60 bucks to then trade it in for 40 dollars credit to get the version that I want for another 20 bucks? What?

Rob V

^^ Plus taxes --- twice!

tlwizard

Has anyone who received the PlayStation Now beta acceptance last week that signed up received their beta code yet?

Decker

How the hell did I not qualify for the PS Now beta?

Brack

Your PSN is below your Xbox Live, that's why!

dsa_shea

Nope. Still waiting.

ultimaton

Still waiting. I'm pretty anxious to try it out.

Supermallet

I don't remember if I signed up for the beta.

Edit: If I didn't before I have now.

Gooter

Same here, still waiting.

Mok

Waiting

musick

PS4 survey



don't see anything I'm interested in other than possibly changing user name

I know someone asked the other day about on screen notification when friends come online

Music

Quite a few of those should have been available at launch on both systems.

redrum

Why do they need to survey about that stuff? Just do it!

Decker

Playstation Network : Now Flirting With the Possibility of Becoming Xbox Live, circa 2007.

Michael Corvin

Yeah, all those should be standard by now.

chess

The feature I want most is the ability to sort friends into folders and then maybe choose which folders I get popups from. I want to know when real life friends or guys I play with all the time come online or send me messages, but I don't want to be bombarded with popups from everybody on my list.

Mercenary Kings is pretty cool. Very old school.

I'm kicking myself for not getting Fez while it was on sale. I actually went to buy it on Tuesday while they were actively updating the store. I'm sure I missed it by minutes. But I downloaded the demo and love it, so the next time it's on sale, I'm all over it. Same for Steamworld Dig.

Decker

I never buy the first sale anymore (20% off); it'll be 50% off in 1-2 months. You've waited like 2 years already for Fez; you can wait a little longer. And FWIW, I think Fez gives a great first impression, but it drags and gets frustrating later.

chess

No doubt you're right about it being cheaper (or even free) later, and I appreciate your take on its long term prospects. Maybe I'll just keep the demo loaded for now, and if I ever actually finish it, I'll know that I need to get the full game.

I'm actually more interested in Steamworld Dig. Indie devs in general seem to have some affection for 2D "metroidvanias", and that's kind of exciting to me, as it's one of my favorite game structures. I wish Konami would port and/or upgrade all of the GBA/DS/PS1 Castlevanias and sell them digitally for PS4. I'd buy almost all of them.