It’s rare to be forcefully guided, with most of the map being a question of “How do I get up there?” rather than “ Can I go up there?” Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3’s arenas are highly open-ended sandboxes. The punishment for death is typically pretty minimal, with a generous amount of fast travel points you can unlock. You can customize every piece of gear, with multiple ammo types and an impressive array of weapons to unlock, right down to your remote-controlled drone. There are multiple difficulty settings, easing you in before adding wind, bullet drop trajectory, distance measurements on your scope, and more. It wants to be a serious, grounded FPS for those who really want a proper simulation, but it also wants you to enjoy it. There’s always been this odd emphasis on fun authenticity to the series. The base difficulty makes playing a breeze, and the two higher settings offer more interesting modifiers like needing to sleep at camp to heal. The sniping itself is plenty fun, as is the ghosting, and… well, the “warrior” part is a pretty average rip-off of Call of Duty, but that’s more of a last resort anyway. That’s the beauty of Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 though - you will never play a janky game that’s also this remarkably accessible, let alone enjoyable. A confrontation between a prostitute and a mercenary in a friend’s playthrough had their audio coming out flipped, with the prostitute insulting and threatening the mercenary. There’s even a line of dialogue unedited where you can hear the actor break character to ask a question while the mic was still on. Although, there is some hilariously bad acting and writing. In case it’s unclear, the plot isn’t why you’re here.
Then the third entry went fully open-world, thrusting you into the boots of Jon, the most generic American sniper in the history of generic American snipers in gaming, to find his brother and liberate Georgia from generic evil Eastern European fascists, all with the help of your sassy blonde ex-girlfriend. The second one rebuilt from the ground up as a soft reboot, exploring the possibility of wide-linear levels.
The first entry was so broken that I personally could never finish the game. However, that didn’t come without growing pains. That’s part of why Sniper: Ghost Warrior is so remarkable: It’s one of the few to attract enough mainstream interest to get a physical release.
Instead of copying trends or chasing after large demographics, they’re often like big-budget indie games, passionately designed for unique niches that might not have even existed before each game’s release. All Eurojank games aim way above their weight class in terms of budget and feasibility, yet their flaws make them distinctive. Heck, DmC: Devil May Cry requires you not to tell anyone on the internet you like it! Yet in the case of City Interactive’s Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3, you could not have an easier time getting into it.Įurojank is a league of its own in the world of jank: Gothic, Of Orcs & Men, Mars: War Logs, Pathologic, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Risen - not to mention countless FPS games by City Interactive. Some games, like Vampire Rain, demand a lot of patience. You can’t complete this and the “melee kill 10x snipers” challenge during the same run since those melee executions would nullify the sniper kill-only requirement.If you’ve been following this column for a while, it’s doubtlessly clear that a little jank doesn’t hamper my enjoyment of a game.
Note: One of the challenges requires you to complete all contracts in this level with all kills coming from your sniper rifle’s regular bullets.
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