AMD64
Bit Version of Shadow Ops: Red Mercury
Zombie
worked closely with AMD to develop Shadow Ops:
Red Mercury, the cinematic interactive blockbuster
that first appeared on the Xbox™ video game
system from Microsoft in June 2004, using AMD’s
advanced AMD Athlon™ 64 series of simultaneous
32- and 64-bit processors. The 64-bit version
of the game will be included with the 32-bit
version and will allow for improved textures,
better image quality, faster game performance
and an enhanced gameplay experience.
“Shadow Ops: Red Mercury is already known for
its excellent story, frenetic action and industry-leading
sound effects, but with the addition of AMD64
technology, Atari is taking these cinematic
qualities to the next level with even more immersion
and realism,” said Wim Stocks, Executive Vice
President, Sales and Marketing for Atari. “Working
with AMD64 technology has allowed Atari to remain
at the forefront of PC gaming technology and
innovation, creating one of the most gripping
and beautiful first-person-shooters ever made.”
AMD64 technology provides prosumers, gamers,
computing enthusiasts and technical professionals
with a combination of compatibility and high
performance that is necessary to drive applications
that push the limits of the x86 architecture.
Several top PC games are utilizing AMD64 technology
to provide more detailed and larger texture
sizes, more advanced AI, advanced physics engines,
robust map sizes and next-generation features
not yet seen in other PC games. “AMD and Atari
have collaborated extensively to optimize a
version of Shadow Ops: Red Mercury specifically
for the AMD 64-bit processor to bring the cinematic
elements of the game to life in a way not possible
in a 32-bit computing environment“, said Monica
Behncke, director, Customer Centric Marketing,
AMD. “Gamers who use AMD64 processors and install
the 64-bit version of Shadow Ops: Red Mercury,
get access to the 64-bit only level of detail,
with mind-blowing texture quality, enormous
map sizes and amazingly enhanced artificial
intelligence, creating an exceptional game play
experience.”
Shadow
Ops: Red Mercury offers players a gripping movie-style
gaming experience through its unprecedented
Hollywood production values, intense action
and ground-breaking sound and visual effects.
In the game, the player fills the battle-ready
combat boots of Frank Hayden, a special forces
operative hand-picked to track down and destroy
the stolen "Red Mercury," a secret substance
of unspeakable power that threatens the world
with nuclear annihilation. The player will face
off against blood-thirsty terrorists, renegade
military forces and highly trained enemy special
forces in a last ditch desperation mission to
prevent the ultimate terror from reaching the
world's greatest cities.
Zombie partnered with AAA Hollywood talent for
sound effects, script writing and music to make
Shadow Ops: Red Mercury the most cinematic action
game ever created, essentially blurring the
line between Hollywood summer blockbuster films
and interactive entertainment. A top Hollywood
writing team, renowned for work in films and
video games, wrote the entire script for the
game and an original theatrical score was created
by Inon Zur, a renowned composer of award-winning
music for film, video games and television.
The new PC version features improved textures,
gameplay and an expanded multiplayer functionality
with more maps than ever before. As with the
original Xbox game, Shadow Ops: Red Mercury
boasts industry-leading sound engineering to
fully immerse players in the combat experience.
Soundelux, the Academy Award-winning studio
best known for work on films such as "Kill Bill,"
"Gladiator" and "Black Hawk Down,” created ultra-realistic
directional sound effects, enhanced by the game’s
THX® Game Certification. Gamers with powerful
surround-sound speaker systems will duck as
bullets ricochet, cower as grenades rumble and
forge into battle as desperate orders are barked
in disturbingly realistic immersive sound. Shadow
Ops: Red Mercury gamers will be able to test
their combat mettle in online matches in hyper-intense
multiplayer modes that include Deathmatch, Team
Deathmatch, Capture the Flag and Escort the
V.I.P., which will extend the replay value of
the game.
Shadow
Ops: Red Mercury will be available for personal
computer September 21 and is currently available
worldwide on the Xbox™ video game system from
Microsoft with an estimated retail price in
North America of $19.95 and an ESRB rating of
‘T’ for Teen.
