Shadow Ops: Red Mercury

unforeseen consequences

It's The Naked Gun of videogames. Not by design, but by accident. This game has everything you'll ever want in an FPS title: almost endless, borderline comical enemy spawns that makes clown cars look reasonable, linear boring levels with no checkpoints whatsoever, ammo scarcity that rivals some genuine military sims, wild glitches with dumb as rocks NPCs and story that's both incredibly serious and astonishingly dumb at the same time. All the jokes aside, Shadow Ops: Red Mercury manages to be enjoyable almost despite itself and every gamedesign and storytelling flaw one can imagine. At a glance it looks like any other bland shooter of 2000s (go shoot some bad guys and save the world, go-go-go), and some moments are somehow look like they inspired Call of Duty: Modern Warfare series, but there's some unique charm in its sugar-rushed stupidity. In fact, it never stops being entertaining because of it. Every cutscene has to be the most intense cutscene to be put in a game with different camera tricks that emulate best and worst action movies of its era (just ignore low bitrate); every line of dialogue has to be epic, with line reading so impassioned and loud William Shatner would blush; every plot point and plot twist just has to be bigger than the last and needs to be totally unexpected, even if it means putting 5 of them in a row in a span of a minute. You'd think that at some point developers would stop and let the game (and the player) breathe, but no, like any good parody Red Mercury just keeps building up and up until you fight the inevitable helicopter boss at the top of Eiffel Tower and destroy it with nuclear briefcase that stops being nuclear after John ShadowOps's girlfriend hacks the bioweapon out of it in the last possible moment. It's shameless and it's perfect. This is one of the greatest unintentional videogame comedies of all time, and no matter what kind of shooter you imagined just now, Shadow Ops: Red Mercury will surprise and challenge you.

剧情俗套，关卡无聊，手感稀烂，即使放在2004年来看也是不折不扣的粪作。射击部分平庸无比，用着几把看上去没什么区别用起来同样没什么区别的步枪手枪冲锋枪在世界各地打一群看上去有点区别但实际上都只会排队送死的非洲老乡俄罗斯丘八和神秘黑衣佣兵男。哪怕是中等难度也因为抠的要死的血包和子弹补给以及无任务中检查点的设计让游戏变成背板点头模拟器。游戏剧情试图复刻经典的美式特工动作片风格，开场就是大镜头怼脸让主角用苦大仇深的语气揭露现实的黑暗残酷，随后立马引入危险性感的火辣双面间谍俄罗斯口音皮衣女和主角一边指挥行动一边调情，随后果不其然地又在外国武器实验室遇到了自己的前女友老相好，然后经历了世界上最好猜的女毛子叛变夺取核武器，跟前女友和解的究极烂俗剧情后在埃菲尔铁塔展开最终对决干掉了女毛子顺便在塔顶上空让无害化以后的核武器爆炸放了个烟花。 当然游戏的大部分粪点因为我玩过更糟糕的并且游戏有作弊码实际上都不太有所谓，但是我不能接受的是一个在宣传里面标榜自己多么战术多么写实军事大片甚至在游戏菜单里都要加入幕后纪录片告诉玩家自己请了军队战术顾问的游戏，实际里面的武器和剧情都充满了小学生级别的常识错误。我最喜欢的部分莫过于游戏全程你在追寻的核武器 “Red Mercury” 是一个公文包大小，长得跟COD爆破模式里面的炸弹无异的玩意儿，却拥有可以在海面上炸平一个美国航母连带一个海边小城的威力，游戏通篇就围绕着追逐这个公文包展开——但他们甚至搞混了核弹授权装置和微型核弹的区别，没有核弹能被装在一个公文包里，那种东西是授权发射装置。这么低级的错误让我连看个乐子的心态都没法有了，只觉得编剧是个脑残，连爆米花剧情都做不明白。

*throws hands up* Absolute cinema. played this on the xbox back in the day. It it is a dated ancient game that barely gained popularity even then. Almost no-one has heard of this game, and that's fair, but you know what? i don't care. Shadow Ops: Red Mercury deserved better. Even though there is basically nothing to this game except for discount Modern warfare spec ops missions and the campaign it is still peak in my heart.

не работает на Steam Deck

童年游戏补票，，现在偶尔可以再玩玩

牛，三角洲和COD的结合体。黑鹰坠落、丛林特战、雪地潜伏，城市反恐一应俱全，射击手感极佳，即使现在游玩依然感觉无比优秀，实在是不可多得的FPS佳作

玩的第一款现代fps剧情游戏，补票，当年记得是15元一张的光盘。

one of the best games in my childhood. feeling like watching Hollywood movie

don't waste your money