Insurgency: Sandstorm Makes Its Debut On Xbox, Available Now

"The definitive tactical FPS on consoles"

by Fraser Gilbert Wed 29th Sep 2021

We've seen a lot of Xbox fans building anticipation for the release of Insurgency: Sandstorm over the past few weeks and months, and today is the day, as the game is officially now available for Xbox One, Series X and Series S.

Described as "the definitive tactical FPS on consoles", Insurgency: Sandstorm allows you to battle in the war-torn environments of a contemporary conflict through a series of intense cooperative and competitive multiplayer modes. There's "intense" 8-player co-op, objective-based PVP matches with up to 20 players and more.

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The game originally released for PC a few years ago and these days holds a 'Very Positive' rating on Steam. Reviews of the Xbox version seem to be pretty much non-existent so far, but based on what we've seen across social media, players are enjoying the game when it works, but a few server issues have cropped up early on.

Insurgency: Sandstorm (Microsoft Store) - £34.99 / $39.99
Insurgency: Sandstorm - Deluxe Edition (Microsoft Store) - £59.99 / $69.99
Insurgency: Sandstorm - Gold Edition (Microsoft Store) - £69.99 / $79.99

Battle in the war-torn environments of a contemporary conflict through a series of intense co-op and PvP multiplayer modes. Feel every bullet and fear every impact in fierce close quarters combat as your team fights toward victory.

Have you picked up Insurgency: Sandstorm on Xbox today? Let us know your thoughts on it down below.

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Fraser is the News Editor at Pure Xbox, where he spends his time reporting on the biggest stories in the world of Xbox and beyond.

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Vepra
Wed 29th Sep 2021

I was in the Beta of this game and I gotta admit I had fun for like two days. Its alright but not worth £34.99 imo.

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Fiendish-Beaver
Wed 29th Sep 2021

Does the game have a single-player campaign mode?

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PhhhCough
Wed 29th Sep 2021

What is the difference between a "tactical fps" and a non-tactical fps? Examples being cs:go and valorant are tactical fps? While cod or halo aren't?

I enjoyed the older ghost recons, think island thunder(2002), rainbow six games(black arrow) and the newer, but older, operation flashpoint games. Is this along those lines? Or more cod?

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MaccaMUFC
Wed 29th Sep 2021

I played a few hours of this earlier and I thought it was a good game but it does look quite rough like an early Xbox One game and I was playing it on my Series X which the game is optimised for. Aside from the low quality graphics, the gameplay is really good with guns feeling as powerful as they would be in real-life. There’s no absorbing bullets here, it only takes one shot to kill an enemy depending where you shoot them, otherwise it’ll take no more than 3 bullets to put them down.

I paid for the £34.99 standard edition and despite me liking the game I thought it wasn’t worth the price, so I requested a refund through Microsoft Store and received confirmation soon after that I’ve been refunded. I’ll definitely buy it again when it’s at least half price in a sale.

@Fiendish-Beaver While it’s designed with online play in mind, you can definitely play on your own with AI squad mates although there’s no campaign as such but rather certain modes similar to the online modes like capture A, blow up B, defend C etc. The AI are surprisingly decent too, not completely useless like in a lot of games.

@PhhhCough Your spot on with your examples. You simply cannot play this game in the same way as CoD (unless you play Hardcore Search and Destroy) and Halo, it only takes one bullet to kill you and depending on what modes your playing you may sometimes have to wait until your team have captured and secured an objective before you can respawn.