Should you play Insurgency Sandstorm in 2026? No. Play this older game instead.

You may like Insurgency: Sandstorm. You may think its better than previous iterations. You may not even KNOW about the previous iterations. If that is your situation, than I have a wonderful game that you should play. It is also called Insurgency, but this time there is no sandstorm occurring. Actually I don’t think there are sandstorms in any of these games. If you're looking for sandstorms, you're in the wrong spot. If you are looking for intense, high stakes, fast paced, immersive, close quarters, modern infantry combat gameplay, then you’ve gotta get yourself a copy of the original Insurgency.

I thought it might just be a nostalgia thing, but I just spent a number of hours playing both of them back to back, and I had WAY more fun playing the 2014 release, and in this video I will explain why. Honestly, I’m wondering if we keep going back to the 2008 Insurgency source mod if it would be more fun than the 2014 release. By the end we’re just going to be playing Half Life 1.

I joke, but not really. I started this entire channel to find people who want to revive these old games with me, and having an Insurgency 2008 game night is 10000% on the agenda. There is something about these old source games that overshadows the nice graphics of these newer games. I miss those days of spending hours in these lobbies, and I’m hoping one day to host gaming days of old multiplayer gems.

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:38 Lightning Round
01:24 Comms
04:18 Buuuuut
05:04 An Old Friend
05:49 An Older Friend
06:26 Back to the Original, Slightly Less Old Friend
07:30 The Special Sauce