Shadow Ops: Red Mercury cover

Shadow Ops: Red Mercury

Critic score2 critics
First release
Jun 15, 2004
Genres
Shooter · Action, Science fiction

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.

Also known as 影子行动:红色水银, Приказано уничтожить: Операция «Красная ртуть», RM.exe

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Storyline
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.Read more

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.

Release dates
Xbox
Jun 15, 2004
Xbox
Jun 18, 2004
Xbox
Jun 25, 2004
All 7 release dates
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Sep 21, 2004
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Oct 01, 2004
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Oct 22, 2004
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Jul 02, 2014
Age ratings
PEGI 16ESRB T
Game modes
Split screen, Multiplayer, Single player
Perspective
First person
Where to buy
Keywords
modern warfare, counter-terrorists, futuristic, war, artificial intelligence
… All 17, level selection, explosion, modern military, bink video, polygonal 3d, auto-aim, infinite ammo, female antagonist, terrorists, nuclear bomb, linear gameplay, nuclear war

At a Glance

Critic Score
57

Overview

Steam review summary

Steam users rate this Mostly Positive, 232 reviews in all languages, recorded 16 October 2026

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Multiplayer

  • Local co-opIGDB · 24 Oct
  • Shared or split screenIGDB · 24 Oct

Feature data: IGDB

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