Project IGI: I'm Going In

The Good
Stealthy action? Check. You could 'goose' the enemies by firing a burst, and people would come running. Visuals were extremely good for its time, and you played it even closer than Solid Snake - usually 3 good hits on your character would kill you. You never knew where the enemy was going to come from, so you usually ran into the small buildings hoping and praying there weren't too many openings or windows for soldiers to peer into and take potshots.

The Bad
Two HUGE flaws: Your ammo that you carefully scavenged off the dead, and their assorted weapons, NEVER carried over....HELLO! You're in hostile territory, you need every clip you can get! You could not 'goose' the enemy and flush them out if you didn't have the ammo - and since there was always some recoil to throw off your aim, ammo was always needed. You could NEVER save in mission - whose mad idea was that? It's an acceptable idea in Metal Gear for MSX, NES and Gameboy(in the sense of you got sent back to stage start when you died and decided to continue), but then again in that game you never died with three hits(except on HIGHEST difficulty), and rations were often found, and enemies can't call in huge numbers of reinforcements. Bad news - here they can - and they shoot MUCH more accurately than StormTroopers.

The Bottom Line
Another example of cool idea, bad execution.

The Good
After seeing certain screenshots in a magazine for this game i wasn't impressed. But when the demo was released i saw a whole new perspective on this game. Firstly the in game graphics were perfect, everything looked good, including the landscapes which looked the best, way better than DF/2/3.

The levels were challenging, but after mastering the satellite map and using the correct weapons at the correct time you progress through the game skillfully.

The Bad
The only disadvantage in the game was the no in-game save feature. Although it would be nice to have, i only remember restarting about 4 levels, and one of them was 3 times (nasty tank and people). Its best to look at the game from an Arcade style point of view.

The Bottom Line
An arcade style 'stealth like' first person shooter with excellent graphics and music (which suits the game exactly)

The Good
Graphics and atmosphere are excellent. The huge areas of landscape you can explore. Sounds are realistic as is the physics model.

You have to be very precise with your actions. Very much a stealth game rather than a shoot em up. This helps build a tense atmosphere.

The Bad
The key flaw in this game is the lack of any save game feature within each mission. As the game is pretty difficult, it rapidly becomes a very tedious, repetitive effort to complete the missions.

The missions are often long and after 30 minutes of carefully avoiding being killed by a single shot, to be killed and start over again eventually drives you nuts.

A patch for a in-game save has never been released although pleaded for by the various Project IGI fan-sites.

No multiplayer option.

The Bottom Line
Cannot recommend this game until there is an in-game save patch released.