This is a game worth supporting, and it's a great throwback to Igi. But at the moment the game's unfinished so I decided to refund it, but I got full intentions of buying it back later when it's more complete and hopefully there is a full demo of it instead of the kcikstarter early alpha (which is how I found out about the game and thought the game would be finished by now but apparently the pre alpha demo more or less felt like the latest version of the game I just played).
I know this game's a one man job and I applaud the developer for it.
I'd like to list a couple of complaints that I have with the game that I hope he gets to fix it.
1. The most annoying thing with it is the animations, especially when you're climbing up a ladder and you keep climbing into the air even after you've reached the top of the ladder onto the platform. Also some animations between gun switches, aiming down sights would be nice.
2. Your hand / gun disappears or clips into walls. Not just some random wall, but EVERY wall. There is no collision against a wall feeling because you sort of pass through it a little. Once when I had my hand/gun near a table, it looked like my hand was cut away and was kept on the table. Don't know to explain this properly, but collision physics was lacking in short.
3. The menus and the way you bind keys. This is no deal breaker, but sometimes I had to press Esc to go back, and sometimes it does nothing, and I have to click on the Back button. Problem here is the Back button looks kind of invisible so I was stuck there doing nothing for a while until I found it.
4. The lady who briefs the missions is waaaaaay too loud in every mission. (Well I just reached the second mission but then, it was just too loud on both the missions so I doubt it would change in the later missions), anyways it's something that needs fixing for sure.
5. This maybe a game design choice, but the first mission was awfully dark in some places thanks to some dark shadows, and the lens flare totally blinded me too. I know game's meant to be realistic, but that kind of realism needn't be there when it hampers gameplay. But it's not a deal breaker, just a minor annoyance which would be better if fixed.
As for what's done right:
1. Game runs smooth on my somewhat high end rig . i7 and gtx 970, no performance issues of any kind, and I'm very happy with the 21:9 ultrawide support.
2. The entire Igi game design is just so addictive and challenging and fun. This is what games like Far Cry, Sniper Gw3 etc are trying to do, but that open world mechanic kind of sometimes results in more quantity than quality sometimes. But I'm happy the first two missions that I played had good quality in level design and enemy spawns.
3. Ai was pretty decent. Sometimes I felt they didn't react when you shot them, but I wasn't completely sure I hit them as i was using my silenced smg so I could be wrong here. Would need more playtime to know but I had to get the refund going sadly before I cross the 2 hr limit.
4. All in all game's great. If you can look past the Ok graphics and some bugs, it's a definite buy. I'm ok with the graphics, I just find the bugginess a little jarring for the experience. In short, it's a great but incomplete game. If you're a fan of IGI, you will get EXACtly what you wished for. Pretty much everything from IGI exists here, including how u can see enemies thorugh your satellite map thingy, the way that you approach your missions etc etc. I want this game to succeed and I want to support the developer, and I feel bad for applying for a refund right now. I'll be back for sure with an updated review in the future sometime. Cheers Polygon Art.
