Global Agenda is a class-based shooter online team-based game by Hi-Rez Studios developed using Unreal Engine 3.

Global Agenda's lore and gameplay center around Dome City, which acts as an open world lobby.

All weapons with innate inaccuracy are fast firing, minimizing the impact of random bullet trajectory on gameplay.

Global Agenda supports the following modes: For cooperative games, players can queue for Special Ops.

Global Agenda mixes a science fiction setting with a secret agent backdrop, leading the developers to refer to the game genre as spy-fi.

[12] An Orwellian government called the Commonwealth tyrannically rules Earth with an army of artificially intelligent drones.

Through exploration and investigation in the new North Sonoran desert zone, players learn of a massing of Recursive forces.

The quest line leads into the hourly raids where Recursives attempt to break into and capture Dome City.

Hi-Rez has released several pieces of fiction to establish the back-story as well as a timeline for what occurred in the Global Agenda universe before the game begins: Pre-Commonwealth[14] and Post-Commonwealth.

As of June 25, 2010, Global Agenda announced[17] that it was going subscription-free[18] and all content that previously required a monthly subscription fee is available to all players who have purchased the game.

Global Agenda's trial accounts are for an unlimited amount of time but can only advance to a limited level.

On April 7, 2011, Hi-Rez Studios stated that the upcoming update would bring the game's subscription model to free-to-play.

[22] In April 2011, Hi-Rez released Free Agent highlighting a move to free-to-play, balance changes and the introduction of new end-game raid content, Dome Defense.

[23] Eurogamer was more critical and said "a shooter without eloquence or crunch, an MMO without content or personality, and as an experimental combination of the two it's missing ambition".

He mentioned that players of the original Global Agenda and other Hi-Rez games will be given priority beta access.