LucasArts announced today that the highly anticipated title, Mercenaries has officially gone gold on PS2 and Xbox and is scheduled to explode onto store shelves the week of January 10, 2005.

Mercenaries is a revolutionary third-person combat-action game that delivers the next level of free-form game play in massive interactive environments. The game gives players the opportunity to take on the role of a soldier for hire in anended world set in North Korea. In the game, players choose to be one of three mercenaries: an American ex-soldier, a British secret agent, or a Swedish bounty hunter. Under orders from Executive Operations, a private military company, the hired mercenary will need to track down the “deck of 52” fugitive members of the old hardliner regime – before they can launch a nuclear attack.