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.: I'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".[1] It received generally negative reviews
by critics.[2][3]
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.
Covert Operation
The player can use the available Map computer to recon the mission area,
remotely viewing a real-time satellite image of the terrain with
structures and outdoor enemies clearly visible, which is also necessary
to plan strike routes, after monitoring enemy patrol routes and other
strategic information. Using the binoculars and thermal goggles, nearby
enemies can be located, sometimes even through walls.
Jones is equipped with lock picks, and safe crackers making him capable
of forced entry into any locked room or safe, enabling noiseless and
stealthy entry into restricted areas and buildings, and obtaining
military secrets or private information, and objects. Remote-controlled
CR-4 explosives are also available for use on certain ground targets,
meaning large structures can be destroyed safely, from a distance,
leaving Jones undetected. Air strikes can be called for on certain
missions, using the laser designator to pinpoint ground targets for
bombing.
Stealthy Shooting
During gameplay, the player has access to a large arsenal of real world
weapons, including handguns, assault rifles, sniper rifles, light
machine guns and RPGs. Although these cannot be bought, the weapons
available in game levels can be exchanged with carried ones.
Players begin missions with certain fixed or carry-over weapons from
earlier missions, although additional weapons can be obtained from
killed enemies, the player is required to assess future tasks and equip
the most suitable weapons, judging based on the cut scene briefing, and
the objectives list.
Like its prequel, realism was intended to be paramount in this game,
which features more than 30 accurately modeled real-world weapons which
look and behave exactly like they do in real life[4], including their
rate of fire and loading times.
Silenced weapons, completely unavailable in the prequel, such as the
G17-SD and SOCOM handguns, the SMG-2 sub-machine gun, and the PSG-1SD
sniping rifle, enable silent and stealthy killing even from great
distances, leaving the enemy clueless and Jones completely undetected.
Heavy weapons such as the MP5-A3 and MP5-SD3 sub-machine guns, AK-47
and G36 assault rifles, with faster fire and reloading rates, more
range or hitting power are needed for all-out gun-battles, where usage
is usually at the cost of being discovered by multiple nearby enemies,
and therefore giving Jones less chance of survival.
Balanced weapons such as the SVD Dragunov and M82A1-T sniping
rifles, the G11 assault rifle, however, provide a balance of both power
and stealth. Emitting noise, yet usable from great distances, means
that, if used strategically while under cover, Jones can go undetected
while effecting a 1-shot, 1-kill hit rate.
Bullets also perform and penetrate differently, based on their speed,
weight and caliber, and target material: wood, steel, plastic or flesh,
meaning players will be able to kill multiple targets with one shot or
hit targets right through cover.[5] Targets are affected not only by
Jones's movement and stance but also the calculated kickback for each
weapon.
Only 2 guns can be carried at any given time and the rest have to be
left behind, unlike its prequel where Jones could carry any number,
promoting critical thinking and weapon understanding, as each weapon has
very different strengths and side-effects.[6] In addition to the two
chosen weapons, a Combat Knife is carried at all times and always
available for use, enabling noiseless kills and hand-to-hand combat when
out of ammunition or without guns.
Characters
David Jones: The protagonist of the entire game. He is, in fact, one of
the best officers in the IGI headquarters. He is capable of
accomplishing difficult tasks and missions without anyone's assistance,
and is also pictured as a fearless man who does not hesitate to kill his
targets at any spot. David is also described as an officer who does not
give up so easily at risky and emergency situations, but stands firm to
face and solve the situation calmly.
Robert Quest: Robert appears as one of the antagonists in this game. A
strong man in his early fifties, Robert acts as David's temporary
veteran pilot, piloting him to every single location in Russia to obtain
the chips. Unknown to David, Robert has actually co-operated secretly
with David's mission director in order to get the full set of the EMP
chips and the blueprints. When David succeeds in getting all the chips,
Robert betrays him by threatening that he'll shoot him if he doesn't
jump off, the latter of which David chooses. Robert was killed by David
in the seaport in Egypt.
Phillip White: The mission director; is actually a good friend of
David's. He guides David sincerely throughout all the missions in Russia
to recover the stolen EMP chips to obtain the chips for himself and
Robert Quest, his close comrade. Both of them infiltrated the IGI for
decades and had earned great trust in the agency just to wait for the
very moment. After betraying David with Robert, he and Robert escape for
sanctuary in China, where they obey the command of General Wu Xing and
handed the EMP chips to him. Finally, he was killed by General Wu Xing
for accusing the general of killing Robert.
Rebecca Anya: Anya is one of the female officers operating in the IGI
agency, although she usually spends most of the time in front of the
monitor as David's new mission director after the dreadful incident. She
has a typically cool manner of soldiers and does her job well, causing
David to succeed in every mission without further dangers or failures.
Jach Priboi: A middle-aged man, Jach is actually an old pal of David's,
but had not communicated with him for the past few years. Since the
Russian fiasco, Jach had moved his illegal weapons trade to Libya, where
he was held captive by the Libyan Intelligence for unknown purposes.
While serving close surveillance in Libya, he unexpectedly encounters
David who intends to rescue him out. He tries his best to assist David
in every way and eventually recovers his important trade documents and
also kills Major Zaleb Said in the end, fulfilling his intention and
revenge.
Senator Pat Lenehan: Senator Lenehan is the main administrator and
founder of the IGI agency, which was created in order to combat the
threat of war. Lenehan seems to express great interest in David's
missions. He constantly goes to the command center to monitor David's
missions together with Anya. An elderly old man, he is pictured as one
who cares for the others. Lenehan is also shown organizing large-scale
backup troops for one of David's missions.
Plot
The game's protagonist, David Jones,[7] an agent working for the
Institute for Geotactical Intelligence and former British SAS
operator,[8], was sent to the Carpathian mountains in Ukraine to recover
a set of EMP chips stolen by a group of Russian mafia from a high-tech
US facility.[9] After HALO jumping and infiltrating the weather station
in the mountains and retrieving one of the EMP chips, his mission
director (Phillip White) commands him to go to retrieve the remaining
EMP chips so that the IGI researchers can launch a full scale research
on the chips to determine their real usage against the thieves.then he
goes tobridge and destroys it.Then in production facility he gets half
of emp chips.Thenafter he is betrayed by His PILOT ROBORT QUEST AND
MISSION DIRECTION PHLLIP WHITE as they takes EMP obtained by Jones,
after a series of events, he eventually finds himself at the borders of
Romania, where he is then forced to evade the incoming border patrols.
Meanwhile, his former pilot and mission director had escaped. The IGI
was not able to detect their whereabouts after the incident, but spent
enough efforts to get an important detail that Phillip White had made
several weapons and military deals with Jach Priboi in Libya. Under
Anya, his new mission director, he sets off to Libya and searches for
the middle-aged Priboi, who had been locked up by the Libyan
Intelligence as he was supplying weapons to the rebel forces.
After rescuing Priboi and escaping out of the Libyan prison, Priboi
states that all the information which David needs are in a safe in his
villa, which was at that time being used as a command center by the
Libyan general, Major Zaleb Said. David decides to go to the villa to
get the information. Surprisingly, after expunging much effort and going
through many of gunfights, Priboi discovers that Major Said had taken
his papers and he then vows angrily to take them back. He suggests David
to take control of the helicopter in his airbase not far away from the
villa in order to confront Major Said. They get the helicopter without
much conflict, and manage to gun Major Said down amidst the confusion
and get the papers back.[10] Upon returning to his villa, Priboi tells
David that the trade that he made with David's former missions director
was in a seaport in Egypt.
David sets off to the port without hesitation, and discovers that Robert
Quest and Phillip White were actually cooperating with an unknown
country to operate the chips. David kills his former pilot in the
aforementioned seaport, and takes a seaplane to the unknown country and
ventures off to the Spratly Islands near China[11], where Anya states to
be running suspicious activities throughout the time. What Anya said
was quite true; David found his mission director cooperating in secrecy
with a Chinese general, whom he found out later to be General Wu Xing,
who plans to use the chips to blindfold US intelligence and cripple the
powers within.
Later David finds his former mission director Phillip White killed by
General Wu Xing himself, as the former accused the latter of killing his
friend Robert Quest, who was actually killed by David at the Egyptian
port. In Wu Xing's secret weapons lab David Jones gets to know that the
General was going to start a "World War III". He then engages in a
gunfight with Wu Xing killing the latter.
After some chaos and confusion, David tracks the entire plan location to
a large and closely-guarded rocket launch pad, where Anya asks him to
disable the system immediately before the launch is made and causes an
international incident. With efforts, David then succeeds in preventing
the rocket from heading towards its programmed destination and to
detonate somewhere safe. Finally, he prevents a major disaster from
occurring, and the world is once again safe and sound.
How to play
Go To
C:\Program Files\IGI 2 - Covert Strike\pc
And Click to IGI2
Processor= 1.4GHz
RAM= 256MB
Graphics Card= 64MB
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