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“Insurgency: Sandstorm” celebrates its highly positive reception with spectacular Accolades Trailer!

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Insurgency: Sandstorm, the FPS sequel to indie smash-hit Insurgency, is available now on PC! Join New World Interactive and Focus Home Interactive in celebrating Sandstorm’s strong reception from press and players alike in its Accolades Trailer.

Insurgency: Sandstorm is a game of team-based tactics and objective-oriented gameplay complete with player versus player, cooperative versus AI, and competitive matchmaking game modes set in a fictional, contemporary Middle Eastern conflict. Your soldier’s appearance, weapons, attachments, armor, and amount of carried ammo are fully customizable with hundreds of options. Call in airstrikes, request helicopter support, drive vehicles with mounted weapons, and use a wide range of specialist weaponry from grenades to drones to C-4 explosives.

Prepare for a hardcore depiction of combat with deadly ballistics, light attack vehicles, destructive artillery, and unprecedented audio design that puts the fear back into the genre. Death comes fast, ammunition must be carefully managed, and the environment must be tactically navigated at every step toward victory.

Insurgency: Sandstorm is available right now on Steam. A 10% loyalty discount will be given to fans that own the original Insurgency. This additional discount will be offered until the end of March 2019. The first major community update was announced last week and will include five weapons, much-requested community features, and new cosmetics.

Insurgency: Sandstorm is out now on PC and will come to consoles in 2019.

About Insurgency: Sandstorm

Taking the original Insurgency formula and evolving it, the millions selling FPS comes enhanced and expanded . Insurgency: Sandstorm is built in UnrealEngine 4 with upgraded graphics, taking the series into a new era. Coming to PC and, for the first time, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One ; Insurgency: Sandstorm brings extended gameplay possibilities, improved immersion, and new co-op and versus objective-based game modes. All while retaining the lethal tactical action that made Insurgency the worldwide phenomenon it is today.

Fight across a modern battlefield utilizing gameplay mechanics that blur the lines between reality and shooter – split second decisions will mean life or death for you and your team. Each weapon has unique ballistic calculations that take into account things like bullet drop and penetration power. Choose to drop magazines for faster reloads in dangerous situations, carefully open doors to keep quiet, or bash doors down with a shoulder charge, and much more.

Participate in large-scale battles in up to 16-versus-16 skirmishes with artillery barrages, helicopter gunships, re-purposed commercial drones, air strikes, and drivable land transport vehicles. Battle across expansive maps with interiors to breach and high-value objectives to control with your team. Each map’s size and play areas are adjusted specifically for each game mode and can also be played in co-op against bots.

Like its predecessor, Insurgency: Sandstorm rewards teamwork and objective play over personal success. Players will also finally see long awaited features such as character customization, ranked matchmaking, and many more.

-  The 3,6 million selling Military FPS comes enhanced and expanded. 

-  Built in Unreal Engine 4, the game takes the series into a new era on PC and, for the first time on Consoles 

-  Fight across a modern battlefield utilizing gameplay mechanics that blur the lines between reality and shooter 

-  Battle across expansive maps up to 16-versus-16 in online multiplayer, or in co-op against bots 

-  Emphasis on strategic teamplay with in-game positional voice chat and a clever use of vehicles and air support 

-  Compete in Insurgency: Sandstorm‘s ranked modes which rewards teamwork and objective play