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Crossfire is nothing short of an FPS phenomenon in SouthEast Asia. While the long-running competitive FPS hasn’t caught on in the West, Smilegate’s competitive team shooter has been a huge part of PC LAN parties for nearly 15 years, giving this Counter-Strike-styled FPS plenty of new life. Up until now, Crossfire hasn’t had much in terms of a campaign narrative save for two PMC factions constantly going up against each other in 8-person squads: Global Risk and Black List. In an effort to help grow the global audience and reintroduce the Crossfire franchise to the West, Smilegate has partnered up with Remedy Entertainment to put together a rather lengthy story campaign, of which we recently had the pleasure of trying out two of the early campaign missions in CrossfireX.

With there being two main factions going up against each other, it makes sense to have the campaign play out on both sides of the battlefield. CrossfireX’s first mission Operation Catalyst focuses on a failed assassination plot carried out by Global Risk while Operation Spectre takes place a couple of missions later, focused on a new recruit more or less forced into working alongside Black List. While Operation Spectre is the more interesting of the two campaigns, it of course makes sense to play through Operation Catalyst first to get a feel for both corporations as well as some major players that persist throughout the campaign. Each campaign is meaty on its own and I easily clocked in roughly two hours to each Operation, while some of that time was spent searching around for stuffed toys and cameras to shoot.