Sniper ghost warrior 3
Dead on arrival
During one of Sniper Ghost Warrior 3‘s early missions, a covert agent refers to protagonist Jonathan North as a “badass killing machine.” It’s meant lớn be a compliment, one that reaffirms the player’s role as the sole arbiter of change amid the chaos of a war-torn Georgian countryside. But after completing the game’s 26 chip core missions, I can’t help but feel like it’s the most insincere piece of dialogue I’ve heard in a đoạn clip game. There’s nothing special about North, just like there’s nothing badass about Sniper Ghost Warrior 3.
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Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 is dull. It’s a boring open-world shooter stitched together with half-baked gameplay systems and incongruous storytelling. The trò chơi sets out to lớn explore the concepts of “brotherhood, patriotism, & betrayal,” but instead stumbles for a dozen hours, falling back on by-the-numbers narrative beats and flaccid shooting.
Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 (PC, PS4
Most of Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 revolves around North’s efforts to topple a force of Georgian insurgents while searching for his previously captured brother. It’s a threadbare plot lớn begin with, but stilted dialogue, shallow characters, & an insistence on a self-serious approach khổng lồ storytelling make for a muddled mess of a game that limps forward with reckless and misguided abandon.
Even outside of narrative shortcomings, Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 disappoints. Like in other open-world shooters, players can approach any given mission in a handful of different ways. North’s training makes him no slouch with a sniper rifle, but he has other proficiencies too. He’s also a capable silent infiltrator & he’s more than equipped to lớn rush into a firefight guns blazing. Performing actions nets experience points, which are then used lớn unlock skills in either the Sniper, Ghost, or Warrior nâng cấp trees. Both the Ghost & Warrior paths vị little to lớn elevate the game, as there’s rarely a reason khổng lồ leave a vantage point before picking off any enemies who might get in your way. Playing as a xạ thủ is not only the path of least resistance, it’s the fastest way to complete the game.
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There are a smattering of tools at North’s disposal that can spice up what would otherwise be a glorified long-range shooting gallery. Launching a drone skyward affords players a safe way of scouting ahead as it can mark targets và other places of interest on the map. Night vision goggles and grenades function as assets during an assault, but they’re never a necessity. I threw one grenade during my time with the game, simply to see what would happen. It bounced off a rock, rolled backward, & killed me. That was the most enjoyable part of the game.
Much lượt thích the unnecessary skill trees & mostly useless equipment, Sniper Ghost Warrior 3‘s open-world structure is a detriment to lớn the game. After starting a mission from one of North’s safe houses, it’s inevitable that players must drive across vast stretches of Georgia. You will never see anything interesting on these drives. Not a car. Not a random NPC. Instead, you’ll listen khổng lồ thirty seconds worth of bland dialogue (“this is American justice!”) or a single song on the radio before the game falls silent, hoping that its geography is enough khổng lồ hold your attention. It’s not.
All of this is a roundabout way of saying that Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 is not a good game. Even before mentioning its egregious technical issues, I can’t in good conscience recommend picking it up. At time of publication, Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 is plagued by absurdly long loading times. I averaged around four-and-a-half minutes just to lớn load up the map. On đứng đầu of that, it freezes and crashes fairly often, & many of North’s first-person animations result in him clipping through the màn chơi geometry. Developer CI Games has stated that addressing many of these issues are its vị trí cao nhất priority, but I doubt that will make the trò chơi much better. Eliminating long loads doesn’t excuse boring game play and bad writing.
The view from a sniper’s scope has the potential to lớn tell a compelling và meditative story about the nature of armed conflict without the boom & bravado of video clip game warfare. It can also magnify issues và expose glaring flaws. In the case of Sniper Ghost Warrior 3, the later is true. It’s a sloppy, uninspired game at its best. At its worst, it’s — to lớn quote Jonathan North — “one fucking long exercise in triage.”
