![]() Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts Preview | Target on the move Hopefully, this array of gadgets will lead to a ton of freedom and improvization that a short demo can’t quite facilitate. ![]() The early stages I played on didn’t really require that level of creativity, but you can spend a lot of time planning out each objective once you get the lay of the land. On the bullet side of the equation, you have shots designed to attract enemy attention, shot designed to remotely hack cameras and turrets, and the good old fashioned explosive rounds. You can bring everything from frag grenades and throwing knives to deployable drones, decoy generators, and even a remote sniper turret. ![]() Sniping is a grim job, so that makes sense.ĬI Games has also tried to make each of its levels replayable with plenty of tools and alternate bullet types. The lack of cartoonish organ explosions made these moments feel grim more than anything. There’s no X-ray bone-crunching, but there is a new dismemberment system that mostly led to a ton of exploding meat melons. The camera that follows the bullet now had sweeping camera motions and even goes upside down on occasion, like an overzealous skating video. This has improved incrementally from Ghost Warrior 3 but still holds back compared to how Sniper Elite pulls it off. The best shots come complete with a bullet cam, an optional but most welcome addition to any game focusing on sniping. Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts Preview | Scoping the scene I’m certainly not normally a sniper in FPS games, but I was able to pick up this system with relative ease, landing satisfying headshots from across an icy canyon. The numbers for adjusting your distance are clear and easy to adjust, as is the indicator for how the wind and weather will affect where your bullet lands. After you tag enemies with your binoculars, you get a reading on how far they are from your camping spot. The act of sniping is much more fluid than in previous titles thanks to some of the tweaks with the scope design. Thankfully, Contracts is not just a new coat of paint. It’s seemingly the perfect balance between expansive level design and linear “close quarters” action. While Contracts no longer has a fully open world, you do venture into large sandbox levels that take quite a while to traverse and explore. Your new agency gives you a high tech mask that explains your newfound Detective vision, as well as the later upgrades you get to see enemies through walls and spot camera vision cones. The beginning of each mission plays out just like IO Interactive’s game, with a mission briefing PowerPoint narrated by a mysterious benefactor. You play as The Seeker, a well-known assassin-type who prefers shooting heads off at long range. Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts Preview | Collecting intel The clear borrowing of tone and style from the new breed of Hitman leads to an intense experience that’s well worth anticipating. After an open-world outing that many fans would like to forget, CI is back with Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts. It’s a return to more straightforward missions, stripping away a lot of the fluff that the previous game. The former is an over the top shoot-em-up complete with X-ray spleen explosions and zombie spin-offs while the latter tries to counteract that series with a more serious tone, but with more mixed results. When it comes to pure sniping experiences, gamers have two reliable options: Rebellion’s Sniper Elite or CI Games’ Sniper Ghost Warrior.
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