Play with Mercenaries 2 devs, 'catch' an Achievement

One of the more ... interesting Achievements in the Xbox 360 version of Mercenaries 2: World in Flames is the 50-point "Everybody Wants Some," which is earned by playing online with one of the game's developers, or someone who's already played with them. Yep, it's contagious. Actually, it's sort of like the STD of Live Achievements, if you'll pardon the icky analogy.

We think it'd be pretty cool to hear the 360 "Achievement Unlocked" sound in real life every time we came down with a cold or other ailment. Hear that Microsoft? Get on it – after all, you were all about "Live Anywhere." Mercs 2's devs will be playing September 5 through 12 using special easy-to-grok Gamertags, which we've listed after the break. Now, go forth and expose yourself to viral goodness.

MercsDev1: James Wahlquist, Designer
MercsDev2: David Padron, Junior Technical Artist
MercsDev3: Jeremy Swigart, Programmer
MercsDev4: Albert Lo, Associate Designer
MercsDev5: Ali Zandi, Associate Designer
MercsDev6: Manny Diaz, Associate Designer
MercsDev7: Ed Kim, Programmer
MercsDev8: Scott Warner, Lead Designer
MercsDev9: Drew Marlowe, Designer
MercsDev10: Brad Welch, Senior Designer

Reader Comments (43)

Thats a fun achievement.

Didn't another game do a viral achievement? Maybe it was R6 Vegas... I can't really remember

GTA4 and Guitar Hero Song Challenge.

Also GRAW, and several other shooters...Shadowrun did it to if im not mistaken, this is hardly an original achievment, barely worth a mention in fact...

Burnout Paradise also had an achievement somewhat like this.

Yeah I got that achievement in Guitar Hero 3, prob the coolest achievement ever.

♫Gotta catch them all PokeMercs!..♫

Seems easy enough to spot them..

Isn't the downside to this the fact that I have to actually play Mercenaries 2?

Not really, because the game is pretty good.

Oh wait... you actually have to play the buggy xbox 360 version. Ohhhhhh.. I get you.

@spyker

Please dude, both versions are buggy.

But still a fun game regardless.

Agreed. To be perfectly honest with you, I played Spiderman 3 longer than Mercs 2. I don't know what it is about it, I can generally overlook a few bugs (I LOVED Oblivion) but it just makes me angry to play the game.

spyker - what a desperate fanboy comment.

Shadowrun also did this.

They did do this, except the achievement WAS an STD. You got the achievement by teabagging some one who already had the achievement. It's probably my favorite achievement of all time.

Er.. shadowrun did this?

got to keep away from those STD achievements, they only cause pain down the road, and the fact that your 360 might break out with 3 red lights a month later.

I remember GRAW having an achievement for killing a Dev or someone who killed a Dev.

Generic achievement: Play until your 360 red-rings, or play with someone who had a red-ringed 360?

Generic red ring comment.

bleep~bloop! Achivable Unlocked:
:) You have clamidia!

You sir get my vote for comment of the day.

I was really hesitant to get Mercenaries 2 after reading the initial batch of reviews, but a friend was excited about it so I picked it up. Yeah, the AI is kind of stupid but the game is a ton of fun. Think GTA4 + Crackdown and you get Mercenaries 2. The major advantage over GTA4: the longer missions have checkpoints. The major advantage over Crackdown: a lot more of a story, less of the "over and over" that was the Crackdown "story". All in all, I would say Mercs 2 is about an 8.5 and if you play it multiplayer it is a 9.0.

That's a good review but sadly I have to go to the Ancient Canada this month so I won't be able to play anything new this month and after checking the schedule that's mean no Gears 2 for me.

Don't worry Fenix I'll buy it in Canada but I won't be able to play it.

*that means no Gears 2 for me.

Well I'm improving,sorta.

I think I'd have a higher personal score for Mercs 2 if the last two actiony type games I played weren't GTAIV and Uncharted.

No cover system FTL.

Forgot about MGS4, durr...

Bottom line, cover system mandatory.

I got something similar in GTA 4 and it was the first kill I got so I don't believe you really have to kill a dev or someone who killed one but just kill someone.

I think the SKX achievement in Condemned is more satisfactory.

Burnout Paradise has one
Guitar Hero 3 has one
GTA IV has one
There's one other game, i forget what it is now.

Yeah. It's nothing nw.

No one else has mentioned it (probably because no one else bought it. sigh) but Marathon: Durandal also had an achievement exactly like this.

You got the achievement by playing against one of the devs or someone who already has the achievement, not like Shadowrun's similar-but-not-the-same-at-all achievement.

Another game that did it was Tony Hawk's Project 8.

Rock Band has a viral achievement too (Riding on Coattails).

Is it bad that I have The Herpes already...errr...I mean, that achievement?

Kudos to Akukami!

Bleep Bloop! Chastity Belt Unlocked...Already Tainted

Didn't Small Arms for XBLA do it before all these other games?

this game Cheevos are so bugged i got this one from playing "OFFLINE". Everyone thought I was a Dev and kissed my ass it was great....

No one's mentioned that PGR4's got one, so I will: PGR4's got one of these as well!

Hi, i'm programad :-)

Haha, i know that Achievement Generator. I created it :-)

I'm so happy you used it!

Why don't you feature it on Joystiq? Just a post about it wold be awesome!

Thanks Joystiq!

Hi, I'm xGeneral DEATHx!

My name's uber-original, glad you like it!

Okay, all kidding aside, I think they already did a short blurb on the Achievement Generator, either on Joystiq or on X3F.

http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2007/01/29/cant-get-achievements-make-your-own/

A little google goes a long way.

Mine is not that one. I'm not Technology-Ninja.

The one i've created has 5 languages and hi-res graphics.

http://geraconquista.programad.com.br

IT'S A TRAP!

I keed, I keed...it's actually legit, and it gives you the RROD as an icon option.

Gamer points would be a little more rewarding if you could actual get something out of it.

http://www.squidoo.com/doughboy

so do you just add all the devs to friends list and wait for them to show up?

Play with Mercenaries 2 devs, 'catch' an Achievement

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