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Mission: Impossible - Operation Surma

Ethan Hunt and the Impossible Mission Force (IMF) are brought into an investigation of a shady international corporation, known as SURMA, that is in possession of a highly advanced computer virus known as Ice…

52 2 December 2003

Mission: Impossible - Operation Surma is an adventure developed by Paradigm Entertainment, released 2 December 2003 on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

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What Mission: Impossible - Operation Surma is

Mission: Impossible - Operation Surma is an adventure game developed by Paradigm Entertainment and released in 2003. It was published by Atari, Inc.. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Ethan Hunt and the Impossible Mission Force (IMF) are brought into an investigation of a shady international corporation, known as SURMA, that is in possession of a highly advanced computer virus known as Ice Worm. It has the power to break through any type of security system and could lead to the theft of any data ranging from nuclear weapons specs to intelligence of any government. When their own operations are sabotaged, Ethan and the IMF team find out that their secure databases have been hacked and that their enemies are now in possession of some of their deepest, darkest secrets. The team must find this worm to protect global internet security.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Mission: Impossible series

Mission: Impossible - Operation Surma is the fifth of 9 entries we hold in the Mission: Impossible series. It arrived 4 years after Mission: Impossible. The next entry was Mission: Impossible - Operation Surma in 2003. Its critic score of 52 is 2 points above the series average of 50. The highest-rated entry is LEGO Dimensions at 77.

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How it was received

Mission: Impossible - Operation Surma holds a critic score of 52 out of 100. That places it above 10% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 17 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Mission: Impossible - Operation Surma launched on 2 December 2003, within three weeks of Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Need for Speed: Underground and Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Need for Speed: Underground, Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando.

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When did Mission: Impossible - Operation Surma come out?
Mission: Impossible - Operation Surma was released on 2 December 2003 for Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

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