Only reason I'm recommending this game is because it's some of the most tense fun shooters I have played in years.
Gunplay and gun feel is just extraordinarily good, and they feel like they have weight and true firepower.
For me Insurgency is a new experience, so it does take a bit to get used to getting killed in 3 bullets and constantly dropping out of the blue because someone is camping in a good spot, but that's why every encounter and every fight feels fun, intense, powerful and impactful.

Don't even get me on the sound design. This is some of the most authentic sounds I experienced. With my Hyper X Cloud 2 headphones, playing the game on max and getting shot at, especially by a Thunderbolt, they literally start to vibrate. It freaks the hell out of me and it's amazing!

However, the reason why I said I barely recommend this game is because the performance is just awful and there is loads of bugs here and there that get in the way of gameplay.

1.) Performance is just all over the place. I get 70FPS in one area and then drop to 20 few seconds later in a another area, then 30, 40, 25, 60 and so on. Every map so far has this issue.

2.) Often I get stuck in walls/windows because the vault feature doesn't let me vault over normal vaultable walls and I often die because of this bug. I need to tap space several times in order to get it working.

3.) Textures/objects when game is loaded or I respawn often keep popping up from extraordinary low to my set resolution and it kills performance while they load.

4.) Often male/female voices get mixed up depending who I play first. My Insurgent is a male and my Security is a Female. If I play a round of Security first and then next round I play my male Insurgent, the female's voice will stay with the insurgent. I will play a guy with a female voice, mostly when running and running out of breath, he/she has the opposite sex's breathing sound.

Now that's not really a bug that annoys me, it's quite hilarious actually, but it's just another bug that should be potentially looked at.
I would give this game a 9/10, if it wasn't for the awful performance because the game is amazing.

However with the huge performance issues in the, I give this game a 6/10, but I do recommend it, but I HIGHLY advise caution when buying this. If you are not ready to experience crap performance, massive stuttering/FPS drops, just wait and hopefully the devs will start patching it up.

PS Sorry for the awful spelling and grammar. I'm exhausted and typing the review while the game is running kind of makes Steam here run like crap on their browser, so often the text appears few seconds after I type it. :P

[h1] I recommend this game, but I highly suggest giving this a full read first[/h1] Only reason I'm recommending this game is because it's some of the most tense fun shooters I have played in years. Gunplay and gun feel is just extraordinarily good, and they feel like they have weight and true firepower. For me Insurgency is a new experience, so it does take a bit to get used to getting killed in 3 bullets and constantly dropping out of the blue because someone is camping in a good spot, but that's why every encounter and every fight feels fun, intense, powerful and impactful. Don't even get me on the sound design. This is some of the most authentic sounds I experienced. With my Hyper X Cloud 2 headphones, playing the game on max and getting shot at, especially by a Thunderbolt, they literally start to vibrate. It freaks the hell out of me and it's amazing! However, the reason why I said I barely recommend this game is because the performance is just awful and there is loads of bugs here and there that get in the way of gameplay. 1.) Performance is just all over the place. I get 70FPS in one area and then drop to 20 few seconds later in a another area, then 30, 40, 25, 60 and so on. Every map so far has this issue. 2.) Often I get stuck in walls/windows because the vault feature doesn't let me vault over normal vaultable walls and I often die because of this bug. I need to tap space several times in order to get it working. 3.) Textures/objects when game is loaded or I respawn often keep popping up from extraordinary low to my set resolution and it kills performance while they load. 4.) Often male/female voices get mixed up depending who I play first. My Insurgent is a male and my Security is a Female. If I play a round of Security first and then next round I play my male Insurgent, the female's voice will stay with the insurgent. I will play a guy with a female voice, mostly when running and running out of breath, he/she has the opposite sex's breathing sound. Now that's not really a bug that annoys me, it's quite hilarious actually, but it's just another bug that should be potentially looked at. I would give this game a 9/10, if it wasn't for the awful performance because the game is amazing. However with the huge performance issues in the, I give this game a 6/10, but I do recommend it, but I HIGHLY advise caution when buying this. If you are not ready to experience crap performance, massive stuttering/FPS drops, just wait and hopefully the devs will start patching it up. PS Sorry for the awful spelling and grammar. I'm exhausted and typing the review while the game is running kind of makes Steam here run like crap on their browser, so often the text appears few seconds after I type it. :P