Sniper Ghost Warrior 3

Introducing a new part of a less popular series is a difficult decision and requires a lot of courage in the gaming industry, which the Polish development team CI Games has promised with the shooter and stealth game Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 a better and more exciting experience than previous versions of the Series, and we get to know … the level that the game presents in this review.

The game’s story follows Captain Jonathan North and his brother Robert in the American forces, who carry out a mission on the Russian-Ukrainian border to destroy an abandoned facility with a stockpile of biological weapons before a group of terrorists attack them If you successfully complete the mission and try to escape, Jonathan will surround you and beat you up. He threw him to the ground, then arrested his brother Robert and took him hostage.

Two years after the events of the first mission, you will take on a new mission that will take you to Georgia to eliminate an anti-government separatist group that has received large funds from an unknown party. The real reason you accepted the mission is because of rumors that suggest your brother has appeared in the region, and then you hear about a super soldier called Armazi and a secret group called the 23 Society, and the events follow thereafter. The story is unfortunately very cliched and most of its events are predictable, and the dialogues between the characters are empty and serve to fill the fatal gap in the scenario, nothing more. To make matters worse, the game presents you with a poor and short ending to the story. So much so that you won’t believe it ended there.

Now let’s move on to the technical aspect, which is a big disappointment in the game, since the loading times are long, lasting between three and five minutes, and the events of the game take place on multiple maps and sometimes you go straight to another map when you take one new mission to show you the annoying loading screen. The game’s graphical level is very uneven, which is below average at best, and it gets bad in some areas. Although loading times are long, many elements of the environment can appear and disappear suddenly, especially when driving vehicles. Even if the game runs at a speed of 30 frames and does not offer a high level of graphics, the frames suffer in many cases. It is common for them to wear off.

The animation or movement of the characters is also disappointing, with a lot of breaks in the movement, and sometimes it seems like the character is a bit stuck in his movement, and this also applies to the movement of enemies, and the game can’t do that from a technical point of view In terms of aspect, it cannot be praised in any way. Perhaps the most beautiful thing about it are the audio melodies that come to us in the languages ​​and melodies of Eastern Europe. The game is real.

Let’s talk about the game system. You have a primary weapon, a sniper, and a secondary weapon, which can be a rifle, a machine gun, or any type of weapon that relies on direct combat. Finally, you have a light weapon, which is a pistol. The game offers you three game variants: Sniper, where you eliminate your opponents from a distance using snipers. We have the long-range variant where you kill enemies without making noise and without leaving a trace. by hiding the corpses and putting them in a place where you can’t see them, and finally the Warrior, where you go out on the battlefield and fire bullets in all directions.

Each gameplay style has its own experience counter, and when you reach a thousand experience points you will receive a development point for your character. Each play style can develop 9 special abilities, such as making less noise while running or the ability to carry more equipment and other additional abilities. Every weapon you own can be developed. Modifications to it, such as a silencer for snipers and pistols or a larger bullet comb for a machine gun, for example. They can carry a variety of knives and gas bombs or explosives, and each weapon can be purchased with a different type of bullet for it, such as explosive or armor-piercing bullets.

You can use the drone to explore the area around you and mark enemies to find out their locations. However, in many cases this function does not work as desired. You can still look at one of the soldiers, but the marker will not appear on him. The same applies to snipers. The problem with the drone is the exaggerated vibration of the mechanism when it moves to increase realism. However, you may end up feeling some sort of motion sickness, and without marking enemies, you won’t be able to determine their location. It’s also unfortunate that the marker that appears on enemies or that indicates the location from which you are exposed to bullets is inaccurate. In many cases, the marker can indicate that the enemy is far away from you. 100 meters, but you are right behind him!

The use of snipers adds more detail to the operation as you have to adjust the altitude according to the distance between you and the enemy and take into account the direction of the wind movement which causes the shots to deviate and you have the ability to hold your breath, so that a small circle appears in your scope to hit the enemies precisely consumes the stamina meter. Or your stamina and you have the ability to explore, which when you activate it will mark every enemy in your field of vision, and you will sometimes use it to search for evidence and track down leads. The idea is good, but it is not applied often in the experience, and when it is applied it is not adequately exploited, and the experience is fun when it comes to shooting or eliminating enemies. You have to perform a silent killing move if there is no tearing or tire crashes.

The game consists of 4 chapters after the first mission, and each chapter contains a series of missions. There are some side missions and challenges that you can complete, such as assassinating high-value targets blacklisted by American intelligence, but outside of the missions the game does not offer a different experience, especially due to the postponement of the release. The cooperative game mode is planned for later this year as the game offers a very limited experience and when the cooperative game mode is released, although it has the same technical issues as the story mode, it will not actually be playable.

Completing the story will take approximately 6 to 10 hours. After completing the story, you can assassinate blacklisted targets or take on some side challenges. Although the core of the game is entertaining in terms of gaming experience, there are annoying technical glitches, long loading times, and lack of in-game modes. This makes it a frustrating experience and is not recommended for anyone who wants to experience sniping and assassination. The development team needs to seriously think about the future of the series, especially since the end of the story may indicate a desire to develop a new part.

This game was reviewed using an Xbox One review copy provided by the publisher prior to the game’s release.