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Your HUD is limited, no kill feed, no hit markers or crosshairs, every info you need, you must provide by using your attachments and what you can see and hear. Insurgency Sandstorm aims for the hardcore tactical approach, and I must say they’ve achieved this. By capturing objectives, our team got more respawn waves, because if you do, you have to wait until the next respawn wave. This mode plays on a large-scale map, similar to Battlefield, but your team has to capture and hold three objectives as well as destroying the enemies weapons cache. ‘Skirmish’ is the mode I enjoyed the most when I played with friends and with random people who co-operated with the use of the in-game chat. The option to play 5v5 is also there if you’d like a more challenging and competitive experience. The goal is to take all three objectives or kill all the enemies to win. Players start with restricted loadouts, no fire support in close combat. ‘ Firefight’ is a bit more competitive gameplay than the other modes. If you like fast and intense modes, this mode might suit you best. An attacking team has to push forward to destroy the defending teams’ weapons cache. ‘Push’ works like the familiar rush mode in Battlefield. This is a hardcore tactical shooter, the enemy is challenging and sometimes brutal, and they come in waves to counter-attack each time you capture or destroy an objective. But be aware of one thing, as something I experienced real fast. You and your team have to capture and destroy objectives to advance through the map. ‘Checkpoint’ is the co-op mode you can play solo or with other players, against the AI (computer), or PvE (Player vs Environment) as some might call it. There are four different modes you can experience, Checkpoint, Push, Firefight, and Skirmish. The whole experience relies on that you play online with other people, there isn’t any linear campaign mode you can experience, only a co-op mode with AI or friends instead. Rarely happens) but you can play solo with AI as well. Insurgency Sandstorm is intended to play with friends, (or with random people online who can co-operate. And by using the in-game voice-chat, a minor feature that the voice-chat sounds like a walkie-talkie provided me with funny and tactical situations. The HDR audio effect works perfectly and I must say this is one of the big highlights of Insurgency Sandstorm. The ambient audio and realistic voice-chat in-game are incredible, every gunshot, explosions, footsteps and so provides intel for you and your teammates to pinpoint enemy locations. Before I say any more, the weapon models, however, are great as well with tons of different greatly created attachments, weapons etc. This might be a bit rash, but if I would have guessed what era this title had been released by looking at the character models and animation, I would’ve guessed a release around the end of the PlayStation 2/beginning of the PlayStation 3 era.īut then again, it shows that graphics aren’t a big event in this title, because the sound designs are brilliant. To put it this way, the character models look a bit “stiff” & empty inside, (There is no soul!) and the few added animations looks roughly made and not on point at all, the only animations that I would say were okay was the reloading animations. But when it comes to the details, everything isn’t that great, especially when it comes to character models and animations. The overall look fits the scenario, lighting & textures provides a “dusty” look to the environment, and that’s perfect, as the scenario is in the desert. The answer to the question if the graphics have been greatly improved is yes, but compared to today’s standard and competition I would say Sandstorm might be a bit mediocre, why? Let explain. But now with Sandstorm, New World Interactive have created the sequel with the Unreal Engine 4. The 2014 Insurgency hit title had its flaws when it came to the graphics as it was a bit restricted by the Valve Source engine.
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One of the main differences with Insurgency Sandstorm is the change of the graphical engine. Sandstorm is the sequel to the 2014 hit with the Valve Source engine, can the Unreal Engine 4 improve the graphics and performance? Insurgency Sandstorm is best enjoyed with friends, as this is a hardcore tactical first-person shooter experience. Acquired: A copy of this game was provided by a publisher for review purpose