Today, Project IGI is regarded as one of the early FPS shooters that tried to establish the gameplay set in the open world, much before the arrival of more celebrated releases such as Far Cry in 2004.
Immediately after the release, the game received favorable reviews from the worldwide media, and although it failed to become a million-seller, it did manage to become one of the few games from the early 2000s that has achieved cult status for its technical solutions and the impact in had in game development over the next several years. Even though it innovated in many fields, the game was also criticized for the outright lack of multiplayer, weak enemy AI, and the number of technical issues that affected the stability of the game. The driving force that fueled these technical innovations came from the use of the proprietary game engine that developers at Innerloop created for the use in their 1997’s combat flight simulator game Joint Strike Fighter. By the time of its release, this detailed and ambitious first-person shooter received praises for the technical solutions that have brought large open-world environments into the FPS genre, high-quality sound design, and detailed graphics. Project IGI (also known in some markets as “ Project I.G.I.: I'm Going In”) is a tactical first-person shooter released by the Innerloop Studios and Eidos Interactive in late 2000.
