Shadow Ops: Red Mercury
Shadow Ops: Red Mercury is an action-oriented first person shooter based on modern military weapons, equipment and tactics, although presented as a "blockbuster action movie" rather than a hardcore realistic…
Shadow Ops: Red Mercury is a shooter developed by Zombie Studios, released 15 June 2004 on Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $0.89 at GOG.
What Shadow Ops: Red Mercury is
Shadow Ops: Red Mercury is a shooter game developed by Zombie Studios and released in 2004. It was published by Atari, Inc.. It is available on Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 2.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The player takes the role of Captain Frank Hayden, an elite Delta Force operative and the former leader of Black Saber, the President's personal black bag unit. Hayden and his team are attempting to recover a briefcase nuclear bomb code named "Red Mercury" from terrorist mercenary Vladimir Styanovich, known by his Nom de guerre "Vlady the Vicious", who is operating out of a coastal Syrian town. The team's Black Hawk is shot down immediately upon insertion, and they fight their way through the streets in pursuit of Vlady. Hayden is too late to stop Vlady from escaping via helicopter, but manages to damage the helicopter's rotors with small arms fire. Vlady, escaping over the ocean, states he…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
How it was received
Shadow Ops: Red Mercury holds a critic score of 57 out of 100. That places it above 16% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 13 points below the year average.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $0.89 at GOG, 85% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Shadow Ops: Red Mercury launched on 15 June 2004, within three weeks of The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, Thief: Deadly Shadows, The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky and Silent Hill 4: The Room. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, Thief: Deadly Shadows, The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, Silent Hill 4: The Room.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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