Killzone: Mercenary
Killzone: Mercenary is a first-person shooter video game and the second handheld game in the Killzone series. For the first time in a Killzone campaign, players can fight alongside Helghast forces as well as…
Killzone: Mercenary is a shooter developed by Guerrilla Cambridge, released 4 September 2013 on PlayStation Vita. The main story takes about 4.2 hrs to finish.
What Killzone: Mercenary is
Killzone: Mercenary is a shooter game developed by Guerrilla Cambridge and released in 2013. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation Vita only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Starting just after the ending of the original Killzone, and revisiting many of the events from the Killzone trilogy, the game puts players in the rugged combat boots of a mercenary named Arran Danner. Danner, a former UCA soldier, has no qualms about taking on paid contracts from the ISA, as well as the Helghast.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, business, science fiction and thriller. It supports multiplayer for up to 8 players online. Local play supports 1 players. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Killzone series
Killzone: Mercenary is the 12th of 15 entries we hold in the Killzone series. It arrived 9 months after PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale. The next entry was Killzone: Shadow Fall in 2013. Its critic score of 75 is almost exactly the series average of 73. The highest-rated entry is Killzone 2 at 90.
How it was received
Killzone: Mercenary holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 54% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 5 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 4.2 hrs.
What it launched against
Killzone: Mercenary launched on 4 September 2013, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto V, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD, Rayman Legends and Saints Row IV. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto V, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD, Rayman Legends, Saints Row IV.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Killzone: Mercenary yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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Quick answers
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