Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction Cheats For PlayStation 2

1. Free vehicle repair and rearming

   At any time during the game when you have a vehicle that needs repairing or more ammo you can get both for free by doing a mission and canceling the contract. All you need to do is park the vehicle in the base where the mission is, accept the contract, and then cancel the contract. You’ll get the retry screen, select no, and then your vehicle is fully repaired and rearmed without losing money. You can then do the same mission at a later time.

   Contributed by: OitinK 

2. Make the most of side missions

   The first side missions "$" you come across are really simple"Can you get from Camp X to Camp Y in under 2 minutes?" You can pass these easily with lots of extra time, BUT DON'T. These missions do not disappear when completed. They allow you compete against your previous time for the same $5000 prize. So if you let the clock run till its been 1:55 before completing and then come back and do it in 1:50 then 1:45 you will net yourself alot more money.

   This train of thought works for other missions too. There is a side mission where you push a barrel over 50m, but you can keep trying so ideally you would push it 50, 51,52,53,54 to the limit.

   Contributed by: mollyhackit 

3. Unlock the Cheat Crate in the shop.

   Beat the game with all members of the deck either captured or killed. The cheat crate contains(spoilers): a grenade pistol, a street sweeper(a special gun), and a portable airtstrike.

   Contributed by: DiabloTerrorGF 

4. "Heroic" Reports

   If you go into a GSRN Van or stay near one, you will hear about "your" latest capture/killing. The reports are pretty funny even though their lying that the Allies did it.

   Contributed by: RJ815 

5. Easy Way to Raise Friendly Mafia Relations

   At any time if your relations with the Russian Mob are not at the maximum, just steal the $ marked Mafia truck that's right next to the Mafia Chop Shop Garages in both of the cities and drive it into their garage.

   While it doesn't give you money like other vehicles because it's one of their own cars, you still get the respect bonus, so you can just quickly repeat the process to quickly raise your mafia relations.

   Contributed by: General Eric 

6. No Faction Penalties

   You can kill faction members (including Civilians) without penalty by running over their vehicle with a tank.

   Contributed by: RJ815 

7. Replentish Health and Ammo for free

   When you are low on Health or Ammo during free roaming mode, go to any faction headquarters and talk to the guard. After you listen to the mission briefing, walk out of the door instead of accepting the mission will fill your health and ammo back up

   Contributed by: cxie 

8. Get items from the Merchant of Menace for free!

   Go into the Merchant of Menace and select a vehicle or supply drop that you want. You have to toss out the beacon and before the beacon hits the ground, go back into the Merchant of Menace and select ANY other item.

   When you return to the game and the first beacon lands, you will not be charged for the item even though it is still delivered to you.

   Contributed by: EpsilonGSG 

9. Alternate ending.

   In the last Ace contract where you have to capture or kill Song if you don't enter the code into the computer to stop the nukes or if the computer gets destoyed the news report at the end will be different than if you stoped the nukes.

   Contributed by: dandude388 

10. Star Wars reference

    When you capture or kill Dung Hwangbo, the Ace of Clubs, you see a cutscene of a news report on the capture.

    If you read the headlines moving across the bottom of the screen, you will see one which reads:
    Tipoca City: Clones Cloned!.
    This is the cloning city from Star Wars Episode 2, and also a level in the Pandemic and Lucasarts' game Star Wars: Battlefront.

    Contributed by: Amnestria 

11. Keep the helicopter you obtain in the 'Gimme my money' [Mafia] mission

    After you land the helicopter in the mafia garage, you must get out of it to complete the mission. Right after you get paid the helicopter disappears.
    To retain the helicopter, right after you get out, quickly get back in before everything slows down. You'll still be able to keep the helicopter if you go inside a faction's HQ and accept the mission.
    Take note though, whenever you finish a mission, you must go inside the helicopter before everything slows down and you get paid. Otherwise, it'll disappear, since you arent allowed to 'keep' it in the first place.

    Contributed by: den_b7 

12. Change the price of items in the Merchant of Menace shop

    The prices of items on the Merchant of Menace PDA shop can be changed by changing your relationship with the Mafia Faction. Should the Mafia become "Hostile" to you, you must pay them a fee in order to use the Merchant of Menace on your PDA. The higher your relationship with the Mafia, the cheaper the items are. Since Sergei runs the Merchant of Menace website, he'll give you a discount on everything for being his friend. If you buy something for $30,000 while "Neutral" with the Mafia, it may drop a few thousand dollars when you bring your relationship up to "Friendly." Should you make the Mafia "Unfriendly" to you, the price may rise a few thousand dollars. Basically, keep in the good graces of the Mafia and you'll save yourself some money.

    Contributed by: gamerman19 

13. How to survive when falling from any height.

    If you wish your player to survive instead of going splat when He/She hits the ground, All you need to do is pause the game when the player is about 20ft from the ground then press X (to continue) then immediately press start to pause the game again, keep quickly pausing and un-pausing the game until the player has landed and has almost stood up again. If done correctly not only will the player survive but He/She will not be injured from the fall.

    Contributed by: cid_chaos 

14. Turn off the radar permanently

    If you hijack a jamming vehicle such as the K200 Surveillance or the NK Control and sell it to the Russian Mafia chop shop garage, it will cause the entire map to become permanently jammed until you load a new game.

    Contributed by: Atma_Dave 

15. National Treasure Awards

    Collect the National Treasures to unlock the following.

    Unlockable	Unlockable
    Chinese Delievery Scout	1
    Chinese Fuel Truck Delievery	10
    Cash: 500,000	100
    Cheat: Play as Sku Elite Soldier	110
    50,000 Cash	15
    Cheat: Play as Indiana Jones (PS2) or Han Solo (XBOX)	20
    Cheat: Play as Civilian Doctor	30
    Cheat: Play as Civilian Prisoner	40
    H3 Delievery	5
    Cheat: Play as Ace of Diamonds	50
    Cash: 100,000	60
    Cash: 100,000	70
    Cash: 250,000	80
    Cash: 250,000	90

    Contributed by: Yoshikazu Takahashi 

16. Blueprints Awards

    Collect the blueprints to unlock these features.

    Unlockable	Unlockable
    All C4 Crate Drop	1
    Stringer Supply Drop	10
    Cash: 500,000	100
    Cheat: Play as Han Solo	110
    Anti Tank Supply Drop	15
    Cheat: Play as Mafia Heavy Soldier	20
    Cheat: Play as NK Elite Soldier	30
    Prototype Supply Drop	40
    Sniper Rifle Drop	5
    Cheat: Play As NK Number Card (Spades)	50
    Cash: 100,000	60
    Cash: 100,000	70
    Cash: 250,000	80
    Cash: 250,000	90

    Contributed by: Yoshikazu Takahashi 

17. PDA Factions codes

    Must be entered in PDA FACTIONS mode. (Some codes do not work until the correct amount of National Treasure/Blueprints have been found.)

    Effect	Effect
    Left, Left, Right, Right, Down, Down, Up, Up	Ace of Diamonds
    Press Down, Down, Down, Down, Up, Left, Right, Right	All Items In Merchant Of Menance Shop
    Left, Left, Right, Right, Up, Down, Up, Down	Allied Pilot
    Left, Left, Right, Right, Up, Down, Down, Down	Bufford Skin
    Left, Left, Right, Right, Down, Up, Down, Down	Doctor
    Right, Down, Left, Up, Up, Left, Down, Right	Get $1,000,000
    Left, Left, Right, Right, Up, Down, Up , Up	Han Solo Skin
    Right, Left, Right, Right, Left, Right, Left, Left	Infinite Ammo
    Press Up, Down, Up, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right	Infinite Health
    left left right right down up up up	Josef
    Left, Left, Right, Right, Down, Down, Down, Up	NK Elite
    Left, Left, Right, Right, Up, Down, Down, Up	Play as a Hearts Card
    Left, Left, Right, Right, Up, Down, Down, Right	Play as Colonol Garret
    Left, Left, Right, Right, Down, Up, Up, Down	Play as Deck of 52 member
    Left, Left, Right, Right, Up, Up, Down, Down.	Play as Indiana Jones
    left, left, right, right, down, up, down, up	Play as mafia heavy
    left, left, right, right, up, down, down, left	play as Peng
    Left, Left, Right, Right, Down, Down, Down, Down	Prisoner
    Up, Up, Up, Up, Down, Down, Right, Left	Reset all factions to neutral
    Left, Left, Right, Right, Down, Down, Down, Down	SK Elite
    Right, Right, Left, Left, Up, Up, Down, Down, Up, Right, Left, Down, Down, Left, Right, Up, Down, Down, Up, Up, Left, Left, Right, Right	Unlock all costumes without collecting items

    Contributed by: Ronald84, Dr4c0, iidalv, Swiftshark, Edge Master4567, Lokker, RickyX, EpsilonGSG, DecrepitSpirit, Yoshikazu Takahashi, NSANE187 

18. Unlockable Skins

    If you play some of the last of each factions' missions (Spades Section), you should unlock some skins. I believe it's the 2nd to last mission. Maybe the first.

    Unlockable	Unlockable
    Beat South Korea's Spade Contracts	Buford
    Beat the Mafia's Spade Contracts	Josef
    Beat the Chinese's Spade Contracts	Peng

    Contributed by: RJ815 

19. SKU Listening Posts

    Rewards for destroying the posts.

    Unlockable	Unlockable
    55	Cash: 250,000
    40	Cheat: Play as NK Numeric Card (Hearts)
    50	Cheat: Play as Pilot
    20	Civilian Baggage Carrier Delievery
    10	Health Crate Supply Drop
    30	Mafia MD-350 Scout Delievery

    Contributed by: Yoshikazu Takahashi 

20. Monument Awards

    Destroy Monuments to Unlock.

    Unlockable	Unlockable
    20	Cash: 250,000
    10	North Korean ZSU 57 Anti Air Delievery

    Contributed by: Yoshikazu Takahashi 

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