How well do the helicopters control in Mercenaries, and are they relatively easy to obtain? One of my favorite parts in GTA is flying the helicopters (the planes in GTA, even after flight school, had handling all over the map). I really liked the open-ended sandbox play, and want to have fun without repeating missions hundreds of times (the 40+ reflexes aren't what they used to be) but some of the hoops you had to jump through to complete the game really turned me off. The final mission in the burning building without any lights and thugs shooting at me while I accidently stepped in fires really pissed me off! It was a really, long pointless mission that I didn't enjoy (the whole mission structure in San Andreas as a whole was very uneven). It sounds like the difficulty really ramps up for the final mission(s) though.which reminds me of GTA: San Andreas. After reading all the praise here for Mercenaries, I am thinking about picking up a copy.
