Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts

With only a few hiccups, Sniper Ghost Warrior: Contracts finds the fine line between action arcade and sniper simulation. While the story might be forgettable, landing the perfect shot from 500 meters away never stops being awesome.

It’s easy to get lost in the pleasure behind clearing an entire fortress in Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts. While the overall story isn’t compelling, the gameplay is gripping.

A big step up in the franchise and an excellent game on its own.

Some sound and physics shenanigans don’t stop this from being a fun, if occasionally frustrating, game that goes towards redeeming CI Games for the previous game’s missteps.

Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts is a streamlined sniping simulator focused on specific objectives within open-ended mini sandbox levels. It gets off to a weak start with its forgettable story and tedious backtracking, but more than makes up for it with satisfying bullet physics, a delectable kill cam, and plenty of gadgets to help you kill from a distance.

It's on-brand for the Sniper Ghost Warrior series to see its latest game quietly launched, but also like its titular sharpshooter, it ends with a bang.

While Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts‘ missions simply ask you to pretty much do the same things in numerous environments, it’s hard to not get drawn into the action. Moving from one area to another, aware that soldiers could be waiting around the next corner or that a sniper may have you in their sights, makes for a very atmospheric experience, and it’s one that’s only heightened by the detailed environments that you find yourself exploring. After Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 CI Games has come back strong with Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts. It feels like a reinvention of the series, and if this is ...

It didn't take long at all for Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts to blow my expectations out of the water. In the very first mission I was crawling through snowy mountains, silently assassinating guards and stealing technology and trade secrets. I've played Sniper Ghost Warrior games before, and I've never been impressed. I've barely even been amused. And all of that changed with this entry, one which felt more polished than ever before, better looking, with a fascinating and engaging combat system that forces you to stay aware at all moments. Finally, CI Games has crafted a shooter which is as p...

The sniping genre is a fairly popular niche of games these days, and games like Sniper Elite 4 make it easy to see why. You’re dropped into a playground and given enhanced skills to rain hell down upon unsuspecting enemies. The last time we saw the Sniper Ghost Warrior series, things were kind of mundane. Two years later, has CI Games improved things enough to warrant your attention and cash?

Sniper Ghost Warrior: Contracts' potential feels wasted on missions and objectives that have you putting the rifle down and trying your luck with the game's lesser systems.

For those that want to drop in and shoot some enemies, Sniper Ghost Warrior: Contracts may be worth checking out, so long as they can ignore the many bugs present in the game. Even then, its an incredibly tough sell. Some early E3 demos made it seem as though this would be a first-person Hitman game, but the end result is disappointing and frustrating.

Sniper: Ghost Warrior Contracts is the fourth instalment in CI Games’ Ghost Warrior series. Does this title provide enough to stand out from the pack of other FPS games that dominate the market? Or should it stay hidden in its sniping hole? Let’s find out!