How does Mercenaries 3 sound to you? What about Mercenaries 4? 5? 6? 10?!?!
Well you just may get your wish, because the Mercenaries franchise is big. How big? Well Mercenaries 2: World in Flames sold 1.9 million units across the world, putting the franchise in the upper echelons of successful properties in the Electronic Arts portfolio, on the same level as Will Wright‘s Spore and their extremely successful golfing franchise, Tiger Woods PGA Tour ’09.
This is despite the game not getting exactly glowing reviews, thankfully for it’s developer Pandemic though, money talks. As for the sequels mentioned above, EA boss John Riccitiello is dead set on providing Mercenaries games for a long time to come. At least, as long as the franchise remains profitable, of course.
“There will be a Mercenaries 3 and, if I have anything to do with it, there will be a Mercenaries 10,” Riccitello told investors, as reported by GameSpot.
Pandemic though has been open to the idea of furthering the franchise for quite a while, even going back as far as 2007 where they stated in interviews that they already had plenty of ideas for Mercenaries 3.
So now it’s not a matter of IF they’ll be a Mercenaries 3, but when.