Project I.G.I.

Did You Know?

• The game received a 'Silver' sales award from ELSPA for selling at least 100,000 units in the U.K.
• A prequel titled I.G.I. Origins was announced in 2019 but its developer, AntiMatter Games, closed in May 2023.

Plot

Former British SAS operative David Llewellyn Jones is dispatched by the Pentagon to Tallinn, Estonia. His mission is to locate and retrieve a kidnapped Estonian arms dealer named Josef Priboi, who holds crucial intelligence about a stolen American W-88 nuclear warhead taken from a German storage depot. With assistance from his Pentagon contact, Rebecca Anya, Jones tracks Josef through multiple military installations, eventually finding him at a compound run by Priboi’s own organization. A team of ex-Green Berets, led by Captain Harrison, is deployed to extract Josef while Jones provides sniper cover. Once rescued, Josef reveals he was kidnapped by his uncle, Jach, who is trying to sell the warhead to an unknown buyer.

Jones helps Anya hack into Jach’s communication network, and she learns that Jach has already sold the warhead to this mysterious party. Anya locates Jach at one of his remote bases and sends Captain Harrison’s team, with Jones’s help, to capture him. During the operation, the helicopter pilot is injured in a firefight when Jach’s convoy is intercepted by Harrison’s men. Jones then agrees to fly the helicopter to extract Jach. However, the helicopter is shot down by two Russian Sukhoi Su-27 fighter jets near the Russian border after Jones fails to follow a bearing repeated by an unknown radio transmission. Spetsnaz soldiers arrive at the crash site, led by a mysterious female commander known only as “Ekk.” She orders them to capture Jach and execute Jones, but Jones escapes and crosses back into Estonia, where a helicopter rescues him.

Anya tells Jones that Jach is being moved by train to an unknown destination. They suspect Ekk is a rogue military officer or former KGB agent. Jones intercepts and hijacks the train, but the same fighter jets, sent by Ekk, derail it. Jones and Jach escape Ekk’s forces in another helicopter. Shortly after, Jones is ordered to retrieve the warhead and capture Ekk at her base—a former KGB training camp inside a ruined mountain castle. He infiltrates the complex but cannot stop Ekk from fleeing, and finds the warhead has been dismantled. Anya deduces that Ekk used the warhead’s components to build a suitcase nuke. She tracks Ekk’s Mil Mi-24 helicopter to an old plutonium refinery with a functional nuclear reactor. Jones infiltrates the facility and gives Anya remote access to its communication network. Anya arrives to disable the warhead after learning Ekk has made it operational. In the ensuing confrontation, Jones kills Ekk in a duel, and Anya is wounded. The final scene shows Jones speaking with the injured Anya before they are extracted.