![]() It makes you feel like an absolute badass to think that you’ve taken out a target from such an impossible distance, and that’s no coincidence- Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 has ways of making you feel really clever. And once you do fire off a shot, watching it fly for seconds through the air and then causing a morbidly beautiful explosion of blood and chunks is oh-so-satisfying. On easier difficulties, the game has handy assists to help you even with the trickiest of shots, but even on harder difficulties, overcoming all of these obstacles doesn’t feel like a chore, but a challenge to be smartly tackled. ![]() What’s laudable is that not only does Contracts 2 have this level of complexity and nuance, it also manages to do all of that without becoming opaque or inaccessible. Often, you’ll be sniping enemies from a distance of over 1 kilometer, and adjusting your scope in a number of ways to ensure that you’ve got the target lined up perfectly. Wind, gravity, things in the environment, whether or not a target is moving- all of these and more are things that you have to consider as you’re making shots, and the further away you are from your target, the trickier things get. Sniping in Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 feels empowering and nuanced. But most of that is broth- the meat and potatoes of this dish is the sniping, and the missions where you’ll be taking out targets by firing off shots from distances that are even longer than the game’s name. There are areas, each one a large sandbox, and each populated with targets to kill and objectives to complete, while each area also has optional challenges and contracts to take on. Like its direct predecessor, Contracts 2 is mission based. Luckily enough, Contracts 2 knows that, and that’s the part the game is best at. " Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 is still not a perfect game, but it shows, just like its immediate predecessor did, that the series can deliver great content when it sticks to what it’s good at."īut you’re not here for the story. ![]() The plot is boring, the characters are dull, and writing is passable at best, and laughably bad at worst. Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2’s story feels like it was written by an AI bot that was designed to craft generic plot setups for modern military shooters and keep pumping them out by the hundreds on a conveyor belt. ![]() If that all sounds utterly boring and generic- well, that’s because it is. You play as elite sniper Raven, who is sent in to dismantle the tyrannical regime by taking out its most high profile players one after the other. When one of them dies, his wife takes over, but now, the region is caught in turmoil, which threatens to have an impact on the rest of the world as well, mostly because the conflict might inflate oil prices around the globe. Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 is set in a fictional Middle-Eastern city being run by a couple of despotic rulers. Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 is still not a perfect game, but it shows, just like its immediate predecessor did, that the series can deliver great content when it sticks to what it’s good at. It was a successful switch, if not one completely without issues, and building on that success, CI Games have made a sequel that does more of the same. With 2019’s Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts, CI Games recalibrated, delivering a mission-based game that put the focus on sniping and surveying and exploring large open sandboxes. When Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 went down the open world road, it turned out to be too ambitious for its own good. The Sniper Ghost Warrior series has undergone a few transformations over the course of its life.
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