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Shadow Ops: Red Mercury

Shooter

Steam
Released

Jun 15, 2004

8,178 days ago
Platforms
  • PC
  • Xbox

Release dates

North America dates
  1. Jul 2, 20144,509 days ago
    • PC
  2. Sep 21, 20048,080 days ago
    • PC
  3. Jun 15, 20048,178 days ago
    • Xbox

About

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 military simulation. Players proceed through linear levels while battling terrorists and hostile enemy soldiers in locations spanning all around the globe, such as Syria and France, using an assortment of modern firearms.

Trailers

Screenshots

How long to beat

HowLongToBeat ↗ · 14 players
Main story
6 h
Main + extras
9 h
Completionist
18 h

Reviews

Steam77%Mostly Positive · 286 reviews
Critics (IGDB)57/1002 reviews
IGDB players58/1009 ratings

Game info

Released
2004 · see every game from that year
Modes
Single player · Multiplayer · Split screen
Perspective
First person
Multiplayer
  • Couch co-op 2Couch co-op, Split screen

Editions, DLC & expansions

Studios

Age ratings

  • ESRBTViolence
  • PEGI16Violence

Languages

7 languages
Chinese (Simplified), English, French, German, Italian, Russian and 1 more
LanguageAudioSubtitlesInterface
Chinese (Simplified)简体中文
EnglishEnglish (US)
FrenchFrançais
GermanDeutsch
ItalianItaliano
RussianРусский
Spanish (Spain)Español (España)

Themes & tags

5 more tags

Story & names

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 is nobody's martyr, and attempts to disarm the nuke and "re-evaluate". To his dismay, the bomb rearms itself seconds later. Vlady leaves the bomb on the helicopter and leaps into the ocean in a futile attempt to escape the blast. The blast wave from the nuke kills Vlady and capsizes the U.S. aircraft carrier which had been Hayden's base of operations, as well as destroying the helicopter sent to extract Hayden's team, knocking them unconscious.

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Also known as

  • 影子行动:红色水银Chinese title
  • Приказано уничтожить: Операция «Красная ртуть»Russian title
  • RM.exeWindows Executable

Release dates by region

9 releases in 5 regions

worldwide

  • Jul 02, 2014PC

north america

  • Jun 15, 2004Xbox
  • Sep 21, 2004PC

europe

  • Jun 18, 2004Xbox
  • Oct 01, 2004PC

australia

  • Jun 25, 2004Xbox
  • Oct 22, 2004PC

new zealand

  • Jun 25, 2004Xbox
  • Oct 22, 2004PC

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Data from IGDB and Steam. Critic scores from OpenCritic. Dates shown for North America, in your local time zone.