Platforms:	PC
Publisher:	Atari
Developer:	Zombie Studios
Genres:	3D Shooter / First-Person Shooter
Release Date:	September 2004
Game Modes:	Singleplayer / Multiplayer

Shadow Ops: Red Mercury Review. Unfortunately, professional review of the Shadow Ops: Red Mercury game is not yet ready. This game is on the list and will be reviewed in the nearest feature. Shadow ops Red mercury is a first person shooter which focus's on a new nuclear device and your the leader of a black ops unit to prevent its destruction. The difficulty on this game is variable. Shadow Ops: Red Mercury PC Game Overview In this game race against time and terrorism as a member of the elite counter terrorist team in this all-out first person shooter. From the hostile streets of the middle-east where danger can come from any direction to landmarks of a major European city.

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The most noteworthy part of Shadow Ops: Red Mercury is technical: it ships on DVD only, and it’s THX-certified, meaning the explosions are really explosive. It’s a weird game, a rather brainless but still polished budget game. You’re Frank Hayden, but it really doesn’t matter if you were Sam Fisher, Agent Jones or B.J. Blazkowicz. You have a deep voice and a special set of skills, and can perpetually make anything you do look cool. You’re also searching the world for Red Mercury, a substance that, when mixed properly in a cool suitcase, makes really big explosions.

The storyline features the interesting framing device where you start with one of the last levels, then go back in time, but the plot is just silly. It’s challenging, but frustratingly so. The story is told through very grainy cutscenes (shouldn’t a game on DVD have DVD-quality cutscenes?). Think tons of rotating cameras for no apparent reason, low angle of our hero, random slow-mo, inappropriate dialogue, implausible plot twists… in other words, it’s kind of like Bad Boys of Pearl Harbor. Only in this case, it’s also in a tryst with Black Hawk Down, with Tom Clancy watching via infrared camera.

The action itself is incredibly straightforward. Despite the presence of realistic weapons and settings, this is no tactical shooter — it’s pure linear run-and-gun. Befitting its console cross-platformness, there are no mid-mission saves. You either complete the whole thing, or start over. That wouldn’t be an issue if the game weren’t so bloody hard: even with the most generous hit box area of any recent shooter, it ranges from “annoying” early on to “you must be joking.” Powered by the Unreal engine, it looks decent, but the animations and particle effects are sub par.

Shadow Ops is just another military shooter swimming in a sea of camouflage. It’s got most of the genre’s moves down, but nothing really stands out. The single-player game is lengthy but runs out of steam after the first five hundred bodies hit the floor. The combat is loud, but never intense or much fun.

System Requirements: Pentium IV 2.5 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 64 MB Video, WinXP

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Zombie is known more for promising titles than great games. Spec Ops is a perfect example -- a game that could have been great, but failed to be. Shadow Ops: Red Mercury

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is, in essence, the latest version of Spec Ops, this time for Xbox, home of all things first-person shooter. Unfortunately, Shadow Ops continues the tradition as a game that will likely leave you thinking of 'what could have been.' While there are moments that are truly pleasing, there's also some serious AI problems, graphical ugliness, and odd design choices. While Shadow Ops

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is fun for the most part, it's a bit too flawed to be great. Better luck next time, gang.

Set, for the most part, in the Mideast, Shadow Ops begins roughly three-quarters of the way through the story and then works its way backwards after letting you witness a truly horrific moment. The story itself is pretty much standard Hollywood fluff, so expect betrayals and some stiff banter in the cut-scenes. It's passable, but nothing that will keep you gripped. Instead, it's up to the action to keep you hanging. And it probably will, despite everything that's wrong with the game.

Lean On Me
Shadow Ops makes use of standard first-person shooting techniques, but offers a very helpful lean function that actually is something other developers should rip off. Yes, lean has been used before, but it's very effective and even vital in ShOps. Hold the Left Trigger to zoom and then lean left, right, or up with the Left Thumbstick. This is analogue sensitive, so you can lean a fraction or poke your head completely out of cover. This is the most useful action in Shadow Ops next to plugging bullets into enemy noggins with a few well-placed shots. Cover is important in ShOps, very important. It's everywhere and most sections of the large levels see you finding cover, leaning out and taking on enemies who storm in and generally take one of three different cover spots again and again. Cap one and another runs in to take his place. Once they stop coming, it's time to move forward to the next section, where the same situation plays out.

Psst! You're Facing the Wrong Way
You could shake things up by running at the enemy, but this can sometimes break the game as the AI doesn't seem ready to handle any deviation in the gameplan. Even when playing ShOps as its meant to be played (hiding behind cover and taking out enemies slowly), there are AI blips where enemies will end up facing the wrong way or will throw grenades off walls and right back at themselves (oh, high comedy indeed), but when you try and do the unexpected the AI will often break down further.

However, the real AI problems come from your AI teammates, whom you'll have for about half of the missions. Your buddies can't be commanded, which is fine for any game, so long as they have some decent AI dictating their actions. But they don't. There's no friendly fire, so go ahead and shoot at your allies as much as you want, it doesn't matter. I can forgive that, but it seems that it's almost impossible for enemies to do your teammates harm. Numerous times I watched as grenades exploded at an ally's feet, only to watch these Supermen fail to even flinch.

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Their invulnerability is coupled with some absolutely horrendous aim. It won't be long before you'll catch this lovely scene of your guy and an enemy standing, literally, two feet from each other, guns blazing. They never hit one another. Even G.I. Joe would have to laugh at these two. It's up to you to come up from behind and take out the foe. Sure, sometimes your guys do take down enemies, but they are mainly just window dressing, and who wants to dress their windows in a first-person shooter? All of this doesn't hurt the gameplay itself, as early on you'll learn to depend solely on yourself for success in each mission, but it's a big flaw that should not be in any game.