Storm the streets and endure tons of intensifying close quarters combat as your team crucial depends on every soul standing. Destroy complexes, strongholds, bombs, weapon caches in a multiplayer that never gets old. In addition, fight alongside your brothers in a cooperative mode that encourages teamwork and comradery. Experience all this on the advanced Source engine it was built on.

Insurgency the game is a tactical multiplayer FPS (First Person Shooter) that includes quick actions while retaining a fair amount of realism that is emphasized on its environment and gameplay. The game had recently come out on January 22, 2014 on Steam and has been developed by New World Interactive and is $15.00.

Maps

The maps in Insurgency are very unique in the sense that they vary from deserts to tundras. Some of the maps in this game get repetitive and even though there are different environments, the map design is poor. Many of the same colors being used over and over again and many of the maps are cluttered with buildings. However, the buildings of the maps were constructed in a brilliant way in the sense of having big open maps and then implementing an original FPS 3×3 path ways into them, this prevents stalled movement within players and pushes them to move up and eventually intersect with other players.

The maps are:

• Siege
• Contact
• District
• Heights
• Market
• Peak
• Ministry

Game modes

The game modes within this game are very repetitive and short when it comes to competing time. Most of the game modes include objectives, which is fine. However, many of the objects are just flags like in battlefield 4 conquest and each game mode has that base concept with a variant. Many of the game modes are “wait until objective has been captured” or “wait till next wave in five minutes” waiting to spawn like this eats up half the game. There is no instant respawn game mode where players can roam freely like in team death match and just keep respawning and killing.  There is a cooperative mode, but the bots are really easy to kill and there is no difficulty throttle setting.

The game modes are:

• Skirmish — each team has supply caches to protect and prevent the other team from destroying. After both caches have been destroyed, the game becomes a freight match. Reinforcement waves only last for a team until their cache has been destroyed.

• VIP – one team has the job to extract their VIP and escort them to the extraction point. Everyone has one life per round and the coordination that is implemented is extreme on both teams. The VIP is only equipped with a silenced pistol, but is able to pick up weapons.

• Strike – There are three weapon caches on one team, and it is the other team’s job to destroy them. Each reinforcement wave is granted for the attackers when a cachet has been destroyed while the defenders would lose a wave.

• Search and Destroy – Two supply crates are mixed in between three possible locations. A reinforcement wave is granted when a cache has been destroyed. Attackers must locate these crates and destroy them.

• Firefight – There are three territorial objectives (aka Flags) each team spawns within a secure objective and there are no reinforcements, everyone gets one life. Either secure all objectives or eliminate all enemies to win.

• Push – Similar to Firefight, but the attackers must capture three flags in sequential order. Each objective captured grants the attackers a reinforcement wave and defenders are equipped with limited reinforcements.

Gameplay:

               The maps and the game modes may look disappointing, but the gameplay is amazing. There are many guns that can be customizable with many attachments; lots of combinations could be made. No gun is overpowered or over used because once you choose a class you get a different combination of guns set aside from other players. Gun fights are really intense and it brings out your inner human, fighting for survival and turning into an “It’s either me or him” situation. The gameplay is really realistic and surprisingly adrenaline rushing.

Verdict:

-Pros

 + Original/Tactical Gameplay

+ Realistic

+Balanced/Simple classes

+Good game for the price

-Cons

+Repetitive game modes

+Dull design