On Mercenaries 2 i try to play multiplayer and it screws up!

Try launching the game without being connected to the internet.

better go on a pc and contact xbox and or EA themselves find out at the source, cause the problem is obviously there

The game itself is just defected. You might be able to find your answer in this thread
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/932882-mercenaries-2-world-in-flames/45193926

EA servers are probably temporarily down this happens to me in Madden all the time. I would wait a while to see if the issue still reoccurs. Also, what type of internet are you using wired or wireless? Do you have any DNS errors or are your connected to a shared network?


Rylan

have you tryed conneting to ea.com???

Problem seems to be the XBOX Hard Disk Drive (HDD). Run the game and play it once for about 30 mintues, then try again with the HDD inserted. It should now work.

The problem seems to be a conflict with the HDD or with the EA servers, as the XBOX Live account will try to connect to the now dead EA servers for this 2008 title.

If all else fails, you will need a portable memory card, not the HDD to play this game. It's okay if this is the case. Create an offline profile. The game no longer connects to the EA servers anyhow.

borrow hire buy army of two put that in accept ea's terms and conditions load game quit and you will be able to connect on mercs fine.
bad company also works.

Some have gotit working by downloading the demo of army of two on xbl but hasnt worked for all.

It's freezing as it tries to connect to the EA servers.
If you want to play single player, sign out of the PSN before starting the game. If you want to play multi-player, at the moment it seems you can't, join the club :(
Quite a few people are having problems, not just on the PS3 http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/330817.page

Hire buy borrow a copy of army of two and put that in accept ea's terms and conditions load the game up then quit and put mercs 2 in this will sort the mercs 2 freeze problem when connecting to ea servers. Having had and donethis myself i know it works. It workson both 360 and ps3.

I've just fixed this problem...
We bought a 2nd ps3 with mercs2 yesterday and had the same problem on the new system, even when using the other copy of mercs2 from my original ps3.
This 100% worked for me;
I loaded battlefield, bad company on the new system and accepted EA's online terms.
Then i started a quick game multiplayer match (don't be surprised if it doesn't connect 1st time as that occasionally happens anyway).
Then i quit bad company, banged in mercs2 and "jus like that" the freeze is gone and you can play online.
I have also read that this works with army of two also but i can't confirm that.
Have fun!!!