The campaign is going to take about three hours to complete, and you can see some more details about what it’s going to include, and what the two characters that make up the biggest chunk of its story are like. The four of them are who you would play as in cooperative mode as you venture off into the desolate landscape encountering all sorts of factions along they way. “Some information comes to light that compels her to branch away from that group with her friend and two foreign vigilantes – an American combat veteran of the Iraq war and a French citizen who is a rookie and has no combat experience at all. We then fast-forward to the present day where she’s enlisted with Kurdish rebel forces, so she’s a female fighter and she’s with her friend from the prison. “In the confusion of that sandstorm our protagonist finds herself alone and stranded in the desert. “We want to look behind the walls and that’s where we find our female protagonist, and as a young girl she’s been enslaved in this room with her sister and some other girls. Typically they go for a big budget, blockbuster feel, we want the opposite of that: we want an understated, indie tone for our story. We really want to shift the tone for what triple-A shooter stories are known for.

“Thematically, we’re inspired by current events,” Spearin explains, “but we’re not trying to simulate or tell any particular story or identify any faction.

A sandstorm rolls through the settlement and chaos erupts, in the resulting skirmish the cell wall is demolished, setting the captives free. So why Sandstorm? The narrative opens with the player character and their sister held captive by an oppressive, militant organisation. In it, players assume the role of a female insurgency fighter on a road-trip through the Middle East, avoiding US and militant forces alike. The more surprising and unexpected reveal from New World Interactive is that Insurgency: Sandstorm will feature a single-player campaign. Insurgency: Sandstorm single-player campaign

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