Chris Ryan,
a former Special Air
Service operative best known for being the lone successful escapee of
Bravo Two Zero, served as a consultant to the game. The box art is similar to
the poster for GoldenEye.
The game's plot features a rogue Chinese General, "Wu Xing" as the
primary antagonist. Xing orchestrates various events (such as armed robbery of
advanced prototype technology from the Russian mafia) in order to get
Electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weaponry on a space rocket that he has launch
control over. At the end of the game, the protagonist David Jones is finally
able to defeat him and stop the launch.
The game was banned in China, because it "intentionally blackened China
and the Chinese army's image".[1] It received generally negative reviews
by critics.[2][3]
Missions
and Storyline
The game is divided into
missions, and the story is presented in cut scenes, shown before and after
every mission, with animated characters rendered in real-time and pre-recorded
speech. This approach is similar to other games in this genre, which don't rely
on video, instead providing a comparable quality of visual and dramatic
appeal, reusing the same in-game 3D engine for cut scene rendering.
Missions have objectives that must all be completed before the mission ends.
Straight-forward tactics are not encouraged, with stealthy and covert movement
giving the player a better rating, rank and chance of survival, with the
highest attainable ranking entitled David Jones.
Multiple paths exist for every mission, with the most obvious and daunting
being a noisy gun-fight, because in every mission Jones is outnumbered anywhere
from 20-1 up to 50-1. Every mission presents an opportunity for large groups of
enemies to be bypassed or sneaked past, undiscovered. Certain missions even
require entire operations to be carried out undetected, i.e. without giving
enemies a chance to sound the alarm, as the name Covert Strike suggests.
At the start of a new game, a difficulty level can be chosen, changing the
number of bullets Jones takes before dying, the intelligence of the enemy and
group AI, and the number of save-games available.
Covert Operation
The player can use the available Map computer to recon the mission area,
remotely viewing a real-time satellite image of the terrain with structures and
outdoor enemies clearly visible, which is also necessary to plan strike routes,
after monitoring enemy patrol routes and other strategic information. Using the
binoculars and thermal goggles, nearby enemies can be located, sometimes even
through walls.
Jones is equipped with lock picks, and safe crackers making him capable of
forced entry into any locked room or safe, enabling noiseless and stealthy
entry into restricted areas and buildings, and obtaining military secrets or private information,
and objects. Remote-controlled CR-4 explosives are also available for use on
certain ground targets, meaning large structures can be destroyed safely, from
a distance, leaving Jones undetected. Air strikes can be called for on certain
missions, using the laser designator to pinpoint ground targets for bombing.
Stealthy Shooting
During gameplay, the player has access to a large arsenal of real world
weapons, including handguns, assault rifles, sniper rifles, light machine guns
and RPGs. Although these cannot be bought, the weapons available in game levels
can be exchanged with carried ones.
Players begin missions with certain fixed or carry-over weapons from earlier
missions, although additional weapons can be obtained from killed enemies, the
player is required to assess future tasks and equip the most suitable weapons,
judging based on the cut scene briefing, and the objectives list.
Like its prequel, realism was intended to be paramount in this game, which
features more than 30 accurately modeled real-world weapons which look and
behave exactly like they do in real life[4], including their rate of fire and
loading times.
Silenced weapons, completely unavailable in the prequel,
such as the G17-SD and SOCOM handguns, the SMG-2 sub-machine gun, and the
PSG-1SD sniping rifle, enable silent and stealthy killing even from great
distances, leaving the enemy clueless and Jones completely undetected.
Heavy weapons such as the MP5-A3 and MP5-SD3 sub-machine
guns, AK-47 and G36 assault rifles, with faster fire and reloading rates, more
range or hitting power are needed for all-out gun-battles, where usage is
usually at the cost of being discovered by multiple nearby enemies, and
therefore giving Jones less chance of survival.
Balanced weapons such as the SVD Dragunov and M82A1-T
sniping rifles, the G11 assault rifle, however, provide a balance of both power
and stealth. Emitting noise, yet usable from great distances, means that, if
used strategically while under cover, Jones can go undetected while effecting a
1-shot, 1-kill hit rate.
Bullets also perform and penetrate differently, based on their speed, weight
and caliber, and target material: wood, steel, plastic or flesh, meaning
players will be able to kill multiple targets with one shot or hit targets
right through cover.[5] Targets are affected not only by Jones's movement and
stance but also the calculated kickback for each weapon.
Only 2 guns can be carried at any given time and the rest have to be left
behind, unlike its prequel where Jones could carry any number, promoting critical
thinking and weapon understanding, as each weapon has very different
strengths and side-effects.[6] In addition to the two chosen weapons, a Combat
Knife is carried at all times and always available for use, enabling noiseless
kills and hand-to-hand combat when out of ammunition or without guns.
Characters
David Jones: The protagonist of the entire game. He is, in fact, one of the
best officers in the IGI headquarters. He is capable of accomplishing difficult
tasks and missions without anyone's assistance, and is also pictured as a
fearless man who does not hesitate to kill his targets at any spot. David is
also described as an officer who does not give up so easily at risky and
emergency situations, but stands firm to face and solve the situation calmly.
Robert Quest: Robert appears as one of the antagonists in this game. A strong
man in his early fifties, Robert acts as David's temporary veteran pilot,
piloting him to every single location in Russia to obtain the chips. Unknown to
David, Robert has actually co-operated secretly with David's mission director
in order to get the full set of the EMP chips and the blueprints. When David
succeeds in getting all the chips, Robert betrays him by threatening that he'll
shoot him if he doesn't jump off, the latter of which David chooses. Robert was
killed by David in the seaport in Egypt.
Phillip White: The mission director; is actually a good friend of David's. He
guides David sincerely throughout all the missions in Russia to recover the
stolen EMP chips to obtain the chips for himself and Robert Quest, his close
comrade. Both of them infiltrated the IGI for decades and had earned great trust in
the agency just to wait for the very moment. After betraying David with Robert,
he and Robert escape for sanctuary in China, where they obey the command of
General Wu Xing and handed the EMP chips to him. Finally, he was killed by
General Wu Xing for accusing the general of killing Robert.
Rebecca Anya: Anya is one of the female officers operating in the IGI agency,
although she usually spends most of the time in front of the monitor as David's
new mission director after the dreadful incident. She has a typically cool
manner of soldiers and does her job well, causing David to succeed in every
mission without further dangers or failures.
Jach Priboi: A middle-aged man, Jach is actually an old pal of David's, but had
not communicated with him for the past few years. Since the Russian fiasco,
Jach had moved his illegal weapons trade to Libya, where he was held captive by
the Libyan Intelligence for unknown purposes. While serving close surveillance
in Libya, he unexpectedly encounters David who intends to rescue him out. He
tries his best to assist David in every way and eventually recovers his
important trade documents and also kills Major Zaleb Said in the end,
fulfilling his intention and revenge.
Senator Pat Lenehan: Senator Lenehan is the main administrator and founder of
the IGI agency, which was created in order to combat the threat of war. Lenehan
seems to express great interest in David's missions. He constantly goes to the
command center to monitor David's missions together with Anya. An elderly old
man, he is pictured as one who cares for the others. Lenehan is also shown
organizing large-scale backup troops for one of David's missions.
Plot
The game's protagonist, David Jones,[7] an agent working for the Institute for
Geotactical Intelligence and former British SAS operator,[8], was sent to the
Carpathian mountains in Ukraine to recover a set of EMP chips stolen by a group
of Russian mafia from a high-tech US facility.[9] After HALO jumping and
infiltrating the weather station in the mountains and retrieving one of the EMP
chips, his mission director (Phillip White) commands him to go to retrieve the
remaining EMP chips so that the IGI researchers can launch a full scale
research on the chips to determine their real usage against the thieves.then he
goes tobridge and destroys it.Then in production facility he gets half of emp
chips.Thenafter he is betrayed by His PILOT ROBORT QUEST AND MISSION DIRECTION
PHLLIP WHITE as they takes EMP obtained by Jones, after a series of events, he
eventually finds himself at the borders of Romania, where he is then forced to
evade the incoming border patrols.
Meanwhile, his former pilot and mission director had escaped. The IGI was not
able to detect their whereabouts after the incident, but spent enough efforts
to get an important detail that Phillip White had made several weapons and
military deals with Jach Priboi in Libya. Under Anya, his new mission director,
he sets off to Libya and searches for the middle-aged Priboi, who had been
locked up by the Libyan Intelligence as he was supplying weapons to the rebel
forces.
After rescuing Priboi and escaping out of the Libyan prison, Priboi states that
all the information which David needs are in a safe in his villa, which was at
that time being used as a command center by the Libyan general, Major Zaleb
Said. David decides to go to the villa to get the information. Surprisingly,
after expunging much effort and going through many of gunfights, Priboi
discovers that Major Said had taken his papers and he then vows angrily to take
them back. He suggests David to take control of the helicopter in his airbase
not far away from the villa in order to confront Major Said. They get the
helicopter without much conflict, and manage to gun Major Said down amidst the
confusion and get the papers back.[10] Upon returning to his villa, Priboi
tells David that the trade that he made with David's former missions director
was in a seaport in Egypt.
David sets off to the port without hesitation, and discovers that Robert Quest
and Phillip White were actually cooperating with an unknown country to operate
the chips. David kills his former pilot in the aforementioned seaport, and
takes a seaplane to the unknown country and ventures off to the Spratly Islands
near China[11], where Anya states to be running suspicious activities
throughout the time. What Anya said was quite true; David found his mission
director cooperating in secrecy with a Chinese general, whom he found out later
to be General Wu Xing, who plans to use the chips to blindfold US intelligence
and cripple the powers within.
Later David finds his former mission director Phillip White killed by General
Wu Xing himself, as the former accused the latter of killing his friend Robert
Quest, who was actually killed by David at the Egyptian port. In Wu Xing's
secret weapons lab David Jones gets to know that the General was going to start
a "World War III". He then engages in a gunfight with Wu Xing killing
the latter.
After some chaos and confusion, David tracks the entire plan location to a
large and closely-guarded rocket launch pad, where Anya asks him to disable the
system immediately before the launch is made and causes an international
incident. With efforts, David then succeeds in preventing the rocket from
heading towards its programmed destination and to detonate somewhere safe.
Finally, he prevents a major disaster from occurring, and the world is once
again safe and sound.
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