Those are truly awesome.Īpart from the overwatch missions, my favorites are the most wanted and the rescue missions. With most missions you can choose whichever style suits you best, sniper, ghost or warrior, but there are two side missions (or maybe more, I have yet to play all of them) where Jon is on overwatch, meaning he is covering operatives from a vantage point afar with his sniper rifle. This was my second one and the first couple of times I didn’t get there was a guy with a rocket launcher on the ridge to the right because I didn’t move from my sniping position. Unfortunately, Jon is not great at climbing and at times that was a little frustrating. You can also shoot cows, but, what’s the point, really? Climbing is also a great past time, there are even some extreme navigation challenges. There are different types of missions: the main story missions, of course, which at times seem awfully short, the side missions involving the different factions of the main story and the most wanted list, which has Jon hunt war criminals throughout the maps.Īs for activities: there are historic sniper rifles and valuable collectibles to be found, civilians to be rescued, outposts to be liberated and deer and wolves to hunt. But fear not, you’ll have to come back to each location anyway, to liberate it, and you can do that whenever you like. ![]() So, during main story missions you usually get to infiltrate outposts during nighttime. See, infiltration missions by day are hard, even when playing the lowest difficulty like I did. Which is sadly often broken when doing story missions. You’ll frequently come across separatists who’ll kill you if you don’t kill them first.Īlso, you have a day-and-night cycle. That’s pretty much the story, by the way. For example, I came across a cannibal – who I shot for, I mean, what else was I gonna do? -, an old man who asked me to hunt a deer for him, people who had been mauled by wolves while hiding out in the hills and a lot of other small stuff enriching the story of a country plagued by evil separatists and thugs. You never know what’s lurking around the next hill. Feel free to use any side of the road you choose.Įxploring the three maps is sometimes boring, but mostly fun. Also, while there are a ton of cars around, noone but Jon seems to be using them to actually drive anyplace. You’ll find small villages nestled between the hills, abandoned or not so abandoned huts and towers in the woods, military compounds and beautiful old cloisters and churches, which are part of the rich historical heritage of Georgia. The three maps mentioned before represent three different regions, as you will have guessed: the Village, the Winery and the Mining Town. Climbing in first person perspective is, by the way, awful. The country also has a lot of forests and mountainous regions, the first meaning Jon North will be crouch-walking through dense undergrowth a lot and the latter that he will frequently be climbing up and down cliffs to get to the perfect sniper position. It is therefore a shame the game has every native speak a thickly accented English. The game itself is set in the small eurasian country Georgia, which has had an eventful past, certainly, and boasts one of the oldest languages worldwide. The three maps offer points of interest, marked with question marks, enemy outposts to be liberated and far travel points to unlock. Where SNIPER ELITE drops SOE commando Karl Fairburne into different, beautiful and detailed maps with each new mission, Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 has marine Jonathan “Jon” North freely hop between three open world maps which offer much room for exploration. ![]() ![]() If anyone out there is asking “Hey, but what about the story?”, well, what about it? All there is to say is that whatever you think will or might happen during the story missions is going to happen. For the record, I had seen the trailer and thought it unlikely I’d ever play that game, but that was before SNIPER ELITE.įor me there are three main points in the game’s favor: the open world, the compound bow and the most wanted contracts. Now, I have recently come to appreciate sniper games, namely the SNIPER ELITE -franchise, and while waiting for the third Deathstorm-DLC for SNIPER ELITE 4 to come out I decided to try out Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3. Apart from bugs like frozen frames and frequent crashes the loading times in Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 are just ridiculously long.Īn open world first person tactical shooter
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