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Acting as an elite soldier, players of "Vietcong" command the A-team, part of the U.S. Special Forces, in realistically represented Vietnamese environments. Players will lead as many as six expertly trained soldiers through 20 dramatic missions, and follow a storyline that captures the danger, fear and unpredictability of the war itself. The full-featured multiplayer mode also allows gamers to play as U.S. Special Forces or Vietcong soldiers and to battle over specially designed levels.

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You just need a little wind resistance, designers! A large flat polygon pushing flatly against the air will not travel the way it would if it were cutting into the air or if it was a small polygon.

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IGI 2: Covert Strike pits IGI operatives against terrorist groups from around the globe. The varied multi-objective based gameplay will include hacking data satellites to launching space shuttles, bombing oil refineries and escorting convoys. Reconnaissance elements provide for a new style of FPS multiplayer gaming, blending stealth and surveillance with action and gunplay.

Stealth gameplay - You are encouraged to use subtlety and intelligence, rather than brute force, in order to overcome an obstacle.

Story driven single-player game - Hero David Jones is once again at the forefront of preventing international terrorism, world catastrophe and betrayal at the very highest level.

9-mission campaign set in real world locations spanning three continents, from all-out base assaults to covert surveillance and infiltration; thefts and escapes in outdoor and indoor, urban and rural environments.

More than 30 guns and other accurately modelled real-world weapons, including: knifes, pistols, assault and sniper rifles, sub machineguns, miniguns, rocket launchers and grenades.

High-tech equipment and game elements - thermal imaging devices, electronic doors and switches, sentry guns, security cameras, alarm systems, base security systems, digital binoculars, and a portable map computer showing real-time satellite data.

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IGI2: Covert Strike will deliver a full team-oriented multiplayer mode, with squads of up to eight players on both sides.

Gameplay pits IGI operatives against terrorist groups from around the globe. The varied multi-objective based gameplay will include hacking data satellites to launching space shuttles, bombing oil refineries and escorting convoys. Reconnaissance elements provide for a new style of FPS multiplayer gaming, blending stealth and surveillance with action and gunplay.

The game will contain a series of multiplayer maps utilising an advanced version of Innerloop's proprietary engine, which delivers excellent indoor locations and expansive outdoor environments.

Throughout the locations, surveillance cameras can spot players and relay locations & sneaking past these will not always be easy. Remote sentry guns, electronic doors and shutters will feature and whichever team can establish control over these will prove vital for their supremacy. [more...]

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Here's a great movie from Ubisoft of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell title. You are a field operative of a secretive black-ops NSA sub-agency known as Third Echelon and are geared up to infiltrate high-security strongholds, destroy threatening data and seize critical intelligence without leaving a single trace.

Which brings us to the game's single biggest flaw - the AI. Put simply, every scruffy looking rebel soldier you come up against is in fact Superman wearing a really cunning disguise. He can see through walls (and will sometimes attempt to fire through them, with often hilarious results), poke arms and legs through solid objects, and consistently land a grenade at your feet from fifty feet away, over a hill, without being able to see you.

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One of the 20 missions on display saw your character jump aboard one of the Black Hawk's and stay in full control as the helicopter headed across a large expanse of terrain and into the congested city. You leap from the heli onto a rooftop and head on down the stairs to the interior; all with no loading or interruptions to gameplay. "We actually want each mission to have a build up similar to Medal of Honor," said producer, Wes Eckhart, referring to the game's infamous Omaha Beach scene that gradually carried you into the chaos.

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The game is online-only like Counter Strike but with demanding realism that better simulates the factors real soldiers have to deal with on the battlefield. Teamwork will always pay off, and the game provides for that in spades - even down to hand and arm signals, and small unit leadership tactics at the fire team and squad level. The damage modeling is fairly generic, with hit areas broken into vital (head shot) and non-vital (everywhere else) locations, but aside from one-shot kills to the head, other hit locations produce injuries that are not location-specific. In terms of movement, players will find realistic stance options (crouch, prone, etc) available to them. Smoke grenades modeling is probably the best I’ve seen in a PC game. Little things like the impact of your breathing when aiming a weapon, the ability to use the bi-pods on light machine guns, and very realistic weapon sounds make this game worth looking into.