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Insurgency: Sandstorm<\/strong> Insurgency: Sandstorm<\/em> recently blazed its way into the shooter genre, and its developers, New World Interactive, have billed it as both a \u201crealistic\u201d and \u201ctactical\u201d type of first-person shooter. In my eyes, this is only partially correct. Let me explain why\u2026<\/p>\n Insurgency: Sandstorm\u2019s<\/em> main draw are its thee (very similar) PvP competitive modes, which basically boil down to two teams slugging it out for capture points, or one team trying to destroy (or defend) munitions caches. Players take the roles of either Security or Insurgent forces and have a wide variety of classes to pick from.<\/p>\n However, this is no Squad<\/em> or Project Realty<\/em>, where players are organized into separate squads\u2014allowing their particular specialties to shine. Instead, people just pick their classes and then run off randomly because teamwork isn\u2019t emphasized. Since there is hardly any team cohesion to speak of (unless a few people randomly utilize a little teamwork) most Insurgency: Sandstorm<\/em> PvP games resemble glorified Team Deathmatch affairs.<\/p>\n Probably the only way that Insurgency: Sandstorm\u2019s<\/em> PvP mode is in anyway realistic is that only a couple of well-placed rounds can kill you. However, since most of the game\u2019s servers are filled with younger-types who seem to have migrated over from CounterStrike: Global Offensive<\/em>, and the Call of Duty<\/em> series, you\u2019ll see a lot of people running around Rambo-style anyways.<\/p>\n There are no medic classes, and hence just like any of the Call of Duty or Battlefield titles, you\u2019ll die quickly and then respawn back in within a few seconds. Rinse, and repeat. Player\u2019s downed bodies also disappear seconds after dropping, further adding to the sense of arcade-y-ness. Yes, we\u2019ve all been here before folks, over and over and over before; the same so-so weapon customizations, the same fast running speeds, the same flashy muzzle bursts.<\/p>\n Fortunately, I recently discovered Insurgency: Sandstorm\u2019s<\/em> Co-op mode, which is an entirely different beast altogether. In Co-op, you\u2019ll be banded together with up to seven other comrades on the Security forces team. You\u2019ll begin by motoring in via back of a transport truck and then disembark on the outskirts of each map. From there, you and your team have to carefully inch forward through small shantytowns, decrepit oil facilities, and bottlenecked checkpoints.<\/p>\n The same amount of lethality seeps over from the game\u2019s PvP mode to this PvE mode, so you have to constantly communicate with your team and call out threats if you\u2019re going to be successful. For instance, my first few games of Co-op consisted of joining servers filled with \u201csilent assassin\u201d types who just sort of ran off and did their own thing, and were all apparently mic-less. These games ended up as they should\u2014individual players running off willy-nilly and getting blasted by the enemy in short order.<\/p>\n However, once I found a good server (it had \u201cTactical\u201d in its title and actually lived up to that), the game transformed into a tactical shooter\u2019s paradise. All of a sudden, big grown-ups were calling out enemy positions, requesting backup assistance, or developing strategies over their comms. In other words, each player wasn\u2019t some lone finger off in its own, but rather all formed part of a hand, which then turned into a fist, which eliminated the enemy with cold, methodical efficiency.<\/p>\n Game mechanics-wise, Insurgency: Sandstorm<\/em> is pretty darn sound. Well, besides the too-fast<\/em> running speed. I guess I\u2019m just used to real tactical games like Squad<\/em> and Escape From Tarkov,<\/em> where you move more slowly\u2026which means\u2026(wait for it)\u2026more tactically.<\/p>\n The game\u2019s gunplay is definitely on point\u2014all of the weapons feel weighty and emit a hearty report when you fire them. Explosions can literally be deafening; your combatant will lose their hearing if they\u2019re too close to grenade or RPG blasts.<\/p>\n Gunfire also sounds different depending on your environmental surroundings. If you\u2019re in an enclosed area, gun reports are so loud that they almost form a solid wall of sound. Likewise, if you\u2019re close to a wall, your gunfire will echo off of its surface of the wall and reverberate outwards from there.<\/p>\n In conclusion, Insurgency: Sandstorm<\/em> isn\u2019t going to win any awards for originality\u2014the devs totally played it safe. However, it can be a fun and exhilarating shooter (mainly in Co-op mode) if you\u2019re playing with teamwork-minded individuals, instead of those who are constantly worried about their K\/D ratios.<\/p>\n SCORE: 74%<\/p>\n Insurgency: Sandstorm <\/em>features great graphics that make its first-person shooter gameplay truly shine. However, you want to have a pretty beefy gaming PC or gaming laptop in order to play it at a decent framerate. So, you may just want to invest in a decent gaming rig:<\/p>\n Visit CyberpowerPC\u2019s website<\/a> to check out all of the other great deals as well!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Insurgency: Sandstorm New World Interactive\/Focus Home Interactive Insurgency: Sandstorm recently blazed its way into the shooter genre, and its developers, New World Interactive, have billed it as both a \u201crealistic\u201d and \u201ctactical\u201d type of first-person shooter. In my eyes, this is only partially correct. Let me explain why\u2026 Insurgency: Sandstorm\u2019s main draw are its thee… Read More »Insurgency: Sandstorm Review \u2013 A Fun, if Unoriginal, Modern Day Shooter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":6826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2724],"tags":[2520,741,2579,2539,2488,2527,1225,67,2486],"class_list":["post-12353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-4k-gaming","tag-cyberpower-pc","tag-first-person-shooter-games","tag-fps-games","tag-game-review","tag-game-reviews-2","tag-gaming-laptop","tag-gaming-pc","tag-ian-kane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16897,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12353\/revisions\/16897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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