IGI 2 Covert Strike

Game Info

I.G.I.-2 : Covert Strike is an action shooting 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, and no game saves. Covert Strike added multiplayer play and limited save game capability, but the game's many bugs led to poor sales, which contributed to Innerloop's demise. 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 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.

The game was banned in China, because it was perceived to damage the Chinese army's image.

The game's protagonist, David Jones, an agent working for the Institute for Geotactical Intelligence and former British SAS operator, was sent to the Carpathian mountains to recover a set of EMP chips stolen by a group of Russian mafia from a high-tech US facility. 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. He then goes to the bridge and destroys it. Then in the production facility he gets half of the EMP chips. After this incident, he is betrayed by his pilot, Robert Quest and mission director, Phillip White as they take the EMP chips 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 is 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 tells 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. Upon returning to his villa, Priboi tells David that the trade he made with David's former mission director was in a seaport in Egypt.

Minimum system requirements:			Recommended system requirements:
CPU: Pentium III or Athlon 700MHz Processor			CPU: Pentium 4 or Athlon 1.2GHz Processor
RAM: http://gamesystemrequirements.com/ 128MB RAM			RAM: http://gamesystemrequirements.com/ 512MB RAM
GPU: 32MB 3D Accelerated Video Card			GPU: 64MB 3D Accelerated Video Card
DX: DirectX 8.1			DX: DirectX 8.1
OS: http://gamesystemrequirements.com/ Windows 98/ME/2000/XP			OS: http://gamesystemrequirements.com/ Windows 98/ME/2000/XP

Store: 1.9GB Hard Disk Space		Store: 1.9GB Hard Disk Space
Sound: DirectX-compatible Sound Card		Sound: DirectX-compatible Sound Card
ODD: 8X CD-ROM Drive		ODD: 32X CD-ROM Drive
Network: 56Kbps Modem (Modem play)		Network: 512Kbps Modem for Hosting