Shadow Ops: Red Mercury is a rather interesting Modern Warfare shooter, notably manufactured before Call of Duty ever thought of exiting its World War II niche. More tactical shooter than the stop n' pop romps of Shadow Ops' successor, thanks to low health pools, fast time-to-kills, and a wholly necessary leaning mechanic. The lack of regenerating health alongside ZERO checkpoints throughout missions creates a very tense and often frustrating experience. Luckily, the ludicrous and over-the-top cinematic presentation of the story gives the game a small amount of value, but incoming players who are more used to the contemporary innovations of cinematic modern shooters, such as regenerating health and forgiving checkpointing, should shunt the difficulty down to easy.
The first ever Modern Warfare clone and predates it for like three years. Pretty wild.
In fact, most situations from this game got redone in Call of Dutys and other shooters that came after COD4: sniper level with """stealth"""" on the snow, the mission in Syria is basically the touristic destination in every COD/Battlefield/You name it (generic Middle Eastern country at war), and Eastern-European (the bad guys) terrorists invade one (1) Central-European (the good guys) country. You even go to a harbour full of soldiers in Chechenya at night, exactly the same as in Black (game released two years later). Either this is the most influential game for shaping the 7th Generation or the guys who made it predicted the literal standard for shooters in the forthcoming years.
I'd say I liked it mostly because it is technically functional, as I didn't have to download any unofficial patch for other than having the game localized in my language, and because, as the COD kid I was, it was entertaining to say the least. Anyhow, it has nothing to makes itself stand out - despite mentioning Black, Shadow Ops: Red Mercury WISHES it had such great combat mechanics -, the main atractive being the silliness of the cutscenes, whose editing look straight out of a music video from 2004. The plot is non-existent and ridiculous.
In fact, most situations from this game got redone in Call of Dutys and other shooters that came after COD4: sniper level with """stealth"""" on the snow, the mission in Syria is basically the touristic destination in every COD/Battlefield/You name it (generic Middle Eastern country at war), and Eastern-European (the bad guys) terrorists invade one (1) Central-European (the good guys) country. You even go to a harbour full of soldiers in Chechenya at night, exactly the same as in Black (game released two years later). Either this is the most influential game for shaping the 7th Generation or the guys who made it predicted the literal standard for shooters in the forthcoming years.
I'd say I liked it mostly because it is technically functional, as I didn't have to download any unofficial patch for other than having the game localized in my language, and because, as the COD kid I was, it was entertaining to say the least. Anyhow, it has nothing to makes itself stand out - despite mentioning Black, Shadow Ops: Red Mercury WISHES it had such great combat mechanics -, the main atractive being the silliness of the cutscenes, whose editing look straight out of a music video from 2004. The plot is non-existent and ridiculous.