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Shadow Ops: Red Mercury

First-person shooters before the arrival of the masterpiece that is Halo, all followed a basic formula that mostly all games in the genre hardly strayed from. Yet with time things tend to evolve and the genre evolved as well . . . and man have they evolved nicely. Still, there are first-person shooters still sticking with tradition and Shadow Ops: Red Mercury is one of them. Is there anything wrong with being traditional? Not at all, but can traditional still survive in a Halo-loving universe? Let’s find out, shall we?

Shadow Ops is one of those first-person shooters that you wish had enough depth and intensity to compete with the big boys. Unfortunately, what was promised didn?t come to fruition, and the game sadly plays as a barely mediocre firefight.

Zombie is known more for promising titles than great games. Spec Ops is a perfect example -- a game that could have been great, but failed to be. Shadow Ops: Red Mercury is, in essence, the latest version of Spec Ops, this time for Xbox, home of all things first-person shooter. Unfortunately, Shadow Ops continues the tradition as a game that will likely leave you thinking of "what could have been." While there are moments that are truly pleasing, there's also some serious AI problems, graphical ugliness, and odd design choices. While Shadow Ops is fun for the most part, it's a bit too flawed to be great. Better luck next time, gang.

The campaign missions can be pretty intense at times, but the underlying action itself, especially in multiplayer mode, lacks the sort of visceral punch that shooters ought to have. Unlike most modern-day military-themed first-person shooters, Shadows Ops: Red Mercury is more about pure run-and-gun action than about relatively realistic squad tactics. It's a fully featured game, boasting a single-player campaign of more than two dozen missions, a variety of two-player co-op levels, and several multiplayer modes playable on Xbox Live by up to eight players or in a split-screen mode by up to four players.

f you've been waiting for a war based FPS, solely for the opportunity to roll some heads, go ahead and rent SORM. For those of us sophisticated gamers, seeking innovation, creativity, and depth, SORM is a major dissapointment.

D'une certaine manière, je pense que Shadow Ops aurait pu faire mieux s'il avait profité de plus de soin. Mais avec son animation ultra saccadée, son I.A complètement folle, parfois insupportable, sa mise en scène somme toute classique, ses armes qui craignent et sa progression pénible, le titre n'a plus grand-chose pour lui à coté des ténors du genre.

Ein Shooter ohne große Neuerungen – gut deswegen ist das Spiel noch nicht schlecht, denn auch Doom 3 bietet null Innovation und hat trotzdem viele begeistert. Aber wie man mit einem solchen unfertigen Spiel auf den Markt gehen kann, ist mir mal wieder ein Rätsel. Insbesondere bei der starken Konkurrenz würde ich als Vermarkter umso penibler bei der Qualitätssicherung sein. Ob die technischen Fehler nur bei der PAL-Version auftreten, entzieht sich meiner Kenntnis. Wen die technischen Unzulänglichkeiten nicht stören, und wer gerne Army-Shooter spielt, kann sich ja beim Spielspaß noch 1.5 bis 2 Punkte mehr dazu denken, aber die mir sich dargebotene Version hat einfach keine höhere Bewertung verdient.