We received these new screenshots
today showing the effects of 64-bit processing on the upcoming
tactical shooter Shadow Ops: Red Mercury. Below are
excerpts from today's press announcement. Shadow Ops: Red
Mercury will be available for PC on September 21st.
ATARI DEVELOPS SHADOW OPS: RED MERCURY
FOR AMD 64-BIT PROCESSORS
Cinematic Shooter to Leverage AMD’s
Advanced 64-bit Architecture for Improved Game Performance,
Graphics, Artificial Intelligence
Atari is working 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, 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.
Developer Zombie Studios 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.
