A battle scene from Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.

Shooting with a vengeance

By Flt-Lt Nick Hogan

Shadow Ops: Red Mercury XBox/Atari live enabled
http://www.atari.com/shadowops/

THIS game feels like a large scale production – from the way it has been advertised and hyped up to the clean cinematic scenes throughout. Unlike Full Spectrum Warrior, this is a fi rst person shooter with a vengeance, with THX Game Certifi cation and Dolby Digital for some serious audio-visuals.

You fi ll the combat boots of Frank Hayden, a Delta Force operative handpicked to track down and destroy the stolen “red mercury”, a secret substance of unspeakable power that threatens the world with nuclear annihilation.

Set in the not-too-distant future, you and your team must travel the world to destroy blood-thirsty terrorists, renegade military forces and highly trained enemy special forces in a last ditch desperation mission to prevent the ultimate terror from reaching the world’s cities. It has more than 20 authentic SF weapons for use in 20 single-player levels spanning the globe.

There are various single player gameplay challenges (such as hostage rescue, demolition and body guard) to complement multiplayer modes. It features several different VIP game modes, multiplayer support for up to eight players on Xbox Live and the Xbox voice communicator, as well as two-to-four player split screen multiplayer action.

This ensures there’s enough baddies for all your friends. I rate this game very highly, in fact, a cut above Ghost Recon.

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