I.G.I.-2: Covert Strike (2003) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

I.G.I.-2: Covert Strike

You're the undercover agent David Jones who's part of the secret agency IGI and in charge to protect the world from international terrorism. IGI-2: Covert Strike starts where the first part ended. So, again…

68 3 March 2003

What I.G.I.-2: Covert Strike is

I.G.I.-2: Covert Strike is a shooter game developed by Innerloop Studios and released in 2003. It was published by Codemasters. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

David Llewellyn Jones, a seasoned covert operative and former British SAS soldier now working for the shadowy Institute for Geotactical Intelligence, is dispatched to the remote Carpathian Mountains on a high-stakes mission. A set of prototype EMP chips has been stolen from a high-tech American facility by a ruthless Russian mafia group, and Jones must recover them. After a daring HALO jump and a stealthy infiltration through a mineshaft into a weather station, he retrieves one of the chips, only for IGI's researchers to discover it is in fact an advanced, improved version of the stolen technology. Realizing the chips may hold far greater significance than anyone suspected, Jones's…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, stealth and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

I.G.I.-2: Covert Strike holds a critic score of 68 out of 100. That places it above 34% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored about average for its year. Player ratings track closely with critics at 71, across 71 votes.

What it launched against

I.G.I.-2: Covert Strike launched on 3 March 2003, within three weeks of Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!, Final Fantasy X-2 and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!, Final Fantasy X-2, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield.

Cheats and codes

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