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Developers have since alluded that the game was released unfinished by EA Studios. This was met with a very negative reaction from fans, especially when retailers such as Walmart and Gamestop allowed preorders marked with a Winter 2007 release. Its original launch date was December 2006, before being pushed back to Spring 2007, Winter 2007, Spring 2008, Summer 2008, and then to its final release date of September 2008. Mercenaries 2 was notorious at the time for its constantly changing release dates.

In addition to the three playable mercenaries from the first game, a fourth and fifth mercenary character were also considered one planned mercenary included Fiona Taylor, a prominent character who appears in both games as a non-playable character. It was decided relatively early on for the game to be set in South America, with beta tests taking place in Argentina and Suriname until Venezuela was chosen due to its massive links to communism, history of internal conflicts, and its importance to the international oil industry. To counter the 'dark and gloomy' atmosphere of the first game, developing artists wanted to create a colorful environment and were immediately attracted to somewhere tropical. This idea would later be reserved for the shelved Mercenaries 3: No Limits. Pandemic Studios began developing early ideas of Mercenaries 2 in December 2005 an early pitched concept took place in the studio's home country of Australia, and featured robotic soldiers and a final boss that was secretly a cyborg. Humiliated and penniless, the Mercenary watches as Solano overthrows the Venezuelan government in a coup d'etat, then decides to take revenge and set up a PMC of their own. Upon rescuing Carmona and returning him to Solano, however, the Mercenary is betrayed and Solano attempts to execute them, shooting them in the butt as they flee his mansion. However, General Carmona had since been captured by loyalist army units - leading Solano to hire the Mercenary to rescue him. Using his connections, Solano had convinced General Carlos Carmona and large portions of the Venezuelan Army to overthrow the government.

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Blanco introduces them to Ramon Solano - a billionaire software entrepreneur with family ties to drug trafficking.

Three years later, the Mercenary is referred to a contract in Venezuela by Blanco: a Liberian who the Mercenary had worked with in Dakar. Following the events of the Second Korean War, the Mercenary and their technical support advisor Fiona Taylor leave Executive Operations to work independently.