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.
Download part 1
Download part 2
Comments
Post a Comment
If any Link is Not Working Then Please Comment Under the Post.
you can request your Game Or Other Programs in the Comment Box bellow....
If you need any Assistance , feel free to contact me.i will help you out.
Regards,
Sajjad Ali Halepoto