Is Ironsight worth playing?

Never heard of Ironsight? Me too. Initially I thought it was some clunky PUBG or Fortnite wannabe, but honestly, it’s not even close to that. It’s more COD-ish, but it has its own flavors.

Ironsight is an action FPS game developed by South Korea-based developer company Wiple Games. The game is free-to-play, and offers a lot of fun features and game modes similar to the Call of Duty games. Originally released in 2018 under Aeria and Gamigo Games, the game was re-released in 2020 under Wiple Games, the original developers of Ironsight.

When you first hop into the game, you are welcomed by a tutorial that teaches you all the basics of FPS games: run, aim, and shoot. After a few minutes in the training mission, the game asks you to step into their lobby mode, where you have lots of options to choose from.

The game offers game modes that are common in Call of Duty clone games, but what’s different from it is that it offers the cyborg game mode. The game mode itself is not new, as it resembles the zombie mode present in Special Force and Cross Fire, two of the most played online FPS games in the Philippines, aside from Counter-Strike of course.

The game offers nothing new to the FPS genre itself, and is pretty much another Call of Duty clone, but it surprisingly has a rather large number of players, albeit not as large as those in other FPS games, as in a span of an hour of lobby games, I’ve come across the same people at least two or three times in different game modes.

But, is Ironsight really worth playing? Well, we really can’t speak for everyone else. For us, though, this game provides you the same level of thrill and excitement you would get from regular FPS games, and if you have access to better and more well-supported games, then we suggest you stick to those. Ironsight, after all, is the poor man’s Call of Duty; it’s free-to-play and relies too much on its loot boxes in order to profit.

The different game modes it offers are enough to lure you in for a good hour or two, but the rampant cheaters in the game make it really hard for you to be truly immersed and invested in it. Not to mention that some guns are way more overpowered than the others, which somehow makes it pay-to-win, as even though these guns are unlockable with time, a newer player would find it hard to enjoy a game when they are matched with players who’ve played the game for months now.

In all honesty, Ironsight is an “okay” game, and you can easily lose yourself in hours worth of gameplay with it. We will not give our final verdict, as the game is still in Open Beta phase, so it’s safe to say that more features will be added to make itself stand out from the multiple games that share the same play style with it. Its a lackluster game in its current condition, but maybe it will find its shine if we continue to support the developers of the game.