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The awkwardly named Project IGI: I'm Going In follows in the trend of the Rainbow Six series, the Delta Force series, and SWAT 3. It eschews the outlandish futuristic weapons and imaginary settings of many traditional shooters and focuses instead on contemporary realism. In the game, you play as David Llewelyn Jones, a former Special Air Service member who now works as a freelance operative for both the British and American governments. The game features a blend of stealth, covert surveillance, and high-powered firefights at secret military bases, and it has much of the thrill and daring of the James Bond films of the late Cold War era. But it also has several significant shortcomings. In Project IGI, your mission is to help retrieve a stolen nuclear warhead and prevent an act of nuclear terrorism. The action begins in the former Soviet Union, and your first goal is to rescue a contact who has vital information about the nuke and who is being held and tortured at a military airfield in Estonia. The narrative is primarily told through in-engine cutscenes at the beginning or end of each mission, and they're visually stylish - their dramatic camera angles and lighting effects approach film quality at times, though the flat dialogue can be a bit tedious and the cast of characters isn't very interesting. The tone of the missions tends to be realistic: While you're a skilled agent, you're just one man - not a one-man army. As such, you'll need to do a lot of creeping through the shadows, sneaking around security cameras, hacking computers to deactivate surveillance systems, and using binoculars to scout the area. When you run into the inevitable confrontation with guards, fast and furious firefights ensue. The game's general emphasis on realism means you'll need quick reflexes: Even if he's wearing body armor, a few shots can still put a painful end to the hero's career. You can restore health only by grabbing a medical kit from an infirmary - if there even is one in the area. Project IGI is a strictly single-player game with 14 missions that are often large and complex, but they're divided into smaller, more manageable objectives. Unfortunately, there's no way to save your game during a mission, and even on the lowest difficulty setting, some missions can be quite hard, and they will inevitably require you to restart from scratch a number of times before you achieve success. Since you'll typically be infiltrating military installations, you'll run into swarms of guards, many of whom stand waiting in towers with their sniper rifles. Death awaits at every corner. The abundance of guards is necessary because the game's enemy artificial intelligence is spotty if not downright poor, as enemies sometimes stand obliviously when you kill one of their comrades, who is only a few feet in front of them. Also, the game sometimes cheats by making guards appear out of thin air or from buildings that you've already cleared. During missions, you'll have access to a large arsenal of weapons, some of which you're equipped with at the start of the missions, and many of which you pick up from dead guards. They run the gamut from a combat knife for silent kills to antitank weapons for the occasional armored fighting vehicle. Other real-world weapons in the game include the Glock 17, Desert Eagle, MP5, M16 A2, Minimi, Spas 12, Uzi, Pancor Jackhammer automatic shotgun, Dragunov sniper rifle, and others, along with flashbang and fragmentation grenades.Read full review
I just recently bought an older computer with windows 98 installed for the express reason of playing all my favorite old-school games that just dont work on Vista. IGI was near the top of my list of all-time favorites. The emphasis is on realism with this game. It is NOT an arcade-style shoot 'em up. You get hit by an enemy round, maybe 2 if your lucky (unless your wearing armor) and your done, level over. Although I found this frustrating at first, it forced me to learn to employ stealth techniques in order to complete the levels. I love the realism of the weapons in this game, from the reloading sounds to the firing of the individual weapons, everything sounds like the real thing. You can even tell the subtle differences between the recoil of the ak47 and the m16. A tough game but very enjoyable and realistic. My only complaint would be the fact that you cannot save your game mid-level, you must survive the entire level without the crutch of a save-game feature. Although this often made me angry to the point of complete rage, when i would finally finish the level there was a great sense of accomplishment. A true classic FPS for the more advanced hard-core player.Read full review
I am fan of this game since my college. It is the best game ever.
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I like the Project IGI game, but unfortunally it didnt work for me, I dont want to get this wrong, but when i get the CD in my system nothing happens it looked like its empty, I dont know if it was my system or the CD. So goodluck you guys.
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