![]() ![]() This is a really good (and big) game, one that bests its predecessor across the board as a challenging and gratifying sniper simulation for those who like these kinds of shooters. Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 features a dramatic single-player campaign, with five distinct sandbox maps (for nonlinear play and replayable missions), 1000-meter-plus extreme long-range sniping, more intelligent enemies compared to the AI adversaries in the original game, and enhanced (up to) 4K visuals, with faster loading times. Along with realistic weapons, players also have several skills, which are upgradeable through unlockable enhancements. ![]() Receiving instructions in your ear and seeing the world through a heads-up display, you'll take on various missions across multiple locations and rely on several long-range rifles and other weapons (pistols, explosives), military gadgets (drones, turrets), and some sneak attacks, too, such as stealthily approaching an enemy from behind to break their neck or use a knife on them. Players assume the role of Raven, a contracted assassin, hired to take down Bibi Rashida, the ruler of this region, after the president, her husband, was assassinated by a neighboring country. The game is set in the fictional region of Kuamar, in the Middle East, located along the Lebanese and Syrian borders. This is no first person shooter, despite featuring guns and using that viewpoint, it’s a sniper game and moments when you’re not taking enemies out at range feel clumsily ill-conceived.SNIPER GHOST WARRIOR CONTRACTS 2 is a sniper simulation played from a first-person perspective. Dropping the unhurried, analytical sniping in favour of faster paced action using your automatic rifle and silenced pistol highlights the flatness of the gunplay and all-round absence of finesse. Unfortunately, these engagements are interspersed with shorter range battles, which neatly spotlight the game’s weaknesses. It’s a slow, methodical business that requires patience, as well as skill in lining up and taking each shot. Doing that involves careful observation through binoculars, tagging enemies, looking for movement patterns, and spotting potential props to use while taking out each area’s arch-baddie. The game’s high points are missions where you need to take out targets a kilometre or more away. That’s also where things start to go awry for Contracts 2, whose meat and potatoes is undoubtedly the long-range shot. This is almost reminiscent of Hitman, in the way you can use pieces of scenery or combinations of different ammunition, to execute your mark and it adds a welcome sense of variety, something that can easily go missing when a game has such a singular focus. These range from killing everyone in a particular camp without raising the alarm, to finishing your target in various offbeat ways. You buy all these using currency earned by completing additional goals in each mission, which turn out to be the most satisfying and challenging parts of the game. ![]() The latter includes armour piercing rounds for taking out heavies, EMP, lures, and agile bullets, which self-guide and don’t require you to compensate for gravity or wind. A drone lets you spot enemies, hack CCTV systems, and fire poison darts a remote turret can be used for sync shots or automatically popping the head of anyone who spots you and there’s also a variety of detectors, anti-personnel mines, and special ammunition for your gun. To assist in your quiet trail of destruction, you unlock a litany of gadgets, many of which are quite fun to use, even if none turns out to be exactly essential. Doing all that naturally requires more than just bullets. As well as killing people – sorry, neutralising targets – you’ll also sabotage equipment, blow up vehicles, and down communication systems. The campaign is split into discrete contracts, each of which has you tracking down and assassinating members of the network. The scene set, you’re helicoptered, completely alone, into the fictional country of Kuamar, ready to take down its tyrannical leader and her network of warlords and financiers. ![]()
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