IGI 2 Covert Strike.
is a computer game developed by Innerloop Studios and released by
Codemasters in 2003. The game is a stealth based first person shooter.
It is the sequel to Innerloop’s Project I G I 1I’m Going In. The
original, published by Eidos Interactive, offered only single player
play. Chris Ryan, a former Special Air Service operative best known for
being the lone successful escapee of Bravo Two Zero, served as a
consultant to the game. The box art is similar to the poster for
GoldenEye.
The game’s plot features a rogue
Chinese General, “Wu Xing” as the primary antagonist. Xing orchestrates
various events (such as armed robbery of advanced prototype technology
from the Russian mafia) in order to get Electromagnetic pulse (EMP)
weaponry on a space rocket that he has launch control over. At the end
of the game, the protagonist David Jones is finally able to defeat him
and stop the launch. The game was banned in China, because it
“intentionally blackened China and the Chinese army’s image”. It
received generally negative reviews by critics.
Missions and Storyline
The game is divided into missions, and
the story is presented in cut scenes, shown before and after every
mission, with animated characters rendered in real-time and pre-recorded
speech. This approach is similar to other games in this genre, which
don’t rely on video, instead providing a comparable quality of visual
and dramatic appeal, reusing the same in-game 3D engine for cut scene
rendering.
Missions have objectives that must all be completed before the mission ends.
Straight-forward tactics are not
encouraged, with stealthy and covert movement giving the player a better
rating, rank and chance of survival, with the highest attainable
ranking entitled David Jones.
Multiple paths exist for every mission,
with the most obvious and daunting being a noisy gun-fight, because in
every mission Jones is outnumbered anywhere from 20-1 up to 50-1. Every
mission presents an opportunity for large groups of enemies to be
bypassed or sneaked past, undiscovered. Certain missions even require
entire operations to be carried out undetected, i.e. without giving
enemies a chance to sound the alarm, as the name Covert Strike suggests.
At the start of a new game, a
difficulty level can be chosen, changing the number of bullets Jones
takes before dying, the intelligence of the enemy and group AI, and the
number of save games available.
System= Pentium 4 CPU 1.4 GHz
RAM= 256 MB
Video Memory= 64 MB
Size= 176 MB
OS= Windows 98 Windows XP Windows Vista Windows 7 and Windows 8
