Mercs

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Mercs

Developer(s)	Capcom
Publisher(s)	Capcom
Release date(s)	1990
Genre(s)	Run and gun
Mode(s)	Single player, multiplayer
Platform(s)	Arcade, Sega Mega Drive
Input	8-way joystick, 2 buttons
Arcade cabinet	Upright
Arcade system(s)	CPS-1
Arcade display	Raster, standard resolution horizontal orientation

Mercs (戦場の狼 2, Senjō no ōkami 2^?) is a top-down run and gun video game created by Capcom. It was released in arcades and on the Mega Drive/Sega Genesis console in 1990.

[edit] Gameplay

The arcade version of the game had up to three players available for play. The players are members of a covert counter-terrorist team known only as the "Mercs". The aim of the game was to rescue the former President from rebels in the fictional African country of Zutulu. The game has six main levels, plus the final level where your mission is to rescue the president from the Hercules Transport.

The console port of Mercs featured two modes, an arcade mode, which mirrored the arcade release of the game, where the player had one "Merc" (soldier) who could pick up a variety of different weapons throughout the game; and an "original" mode, which included multiple playable characters, each with their own unique weapon. In both modes, the aim was to fight through the levels, defeating each boss at the end of every level.

Although the game is officially the sequel to the game Commando, the storyline of the English release of the game makes no connections to the game being a direct sequel and acts as if it's a whole new game series.