Sniper Ghost Warrior 3
Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 tried too much to break out of the single path sniping origins, by cribbing elements from open world games. However, the result is a mixed bag and reminds one far too much of Far Cry 3.
As a special operative for the US government, you are sent into Republic of Georgia (former Soviet Union) to disrupt the separatists who, with help of criminal elements and outside support, terrorized the local government and military into leaving, and occupied the area in the midst of power vacuum. You are given objectives to accomplish, which usually means go into an area, kill a lot of bad guys, do your mission (whether it’s to kill someone, or to find/rescue/retrieve something) and get out safely. You are free to approach the mission any way you wish… Open world. Approach the target from any direction that is available to you. Occupy the hill across and shoot down, sneak in and knife the guards in the back, it’s all possible.
– Real player with 82.5 hrs in game
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Summary
The review section, oh dear. Definitely not the game of 2017, but this is far, FAR from the disaster people make it out to be. An extremely fun, challenging and rewarding game that I thoroughly enjoyed more than I should have.
Unlock, upgrade and customise your gear to set out and traverse extremely large expansive maps. Snipe enemies from afar, infiltrate secret bases, or use all out action to complete your objectives from any angle at any time.
If you aren’t swayed by public opinions plus enjoy flawed yet fun games, snap this one up. For COD fanboys and people who enjoy AAA chores, sorry this isn’t for you.
– Real player with 53.4 hrs in game
Sniper Rust VR
it still has a little bit of polishing but then again I guess every VR game does
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
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1st Impressions Video with Commentary // Oculus Rift + Touch // GTX 1060 (6GB):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKRmU5Of8Hw
My Thoughts:
What started out to be a charming game with great physics and weapon selection, soon crumbles into a looping disaster.
The game has issues and I could not even get past mission 3 without the game resetting. (See my Video)
I cannot recommend this game in it’s current state.
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
Hunting Simulator 2
Actually I’ve fallen in love with this game despite what most people say about it. At first I was sceptical about it and decided to try “trial version” (if you know what I mean ;)) but I liked it so much so I decided to buy it to support the developers. These guys did an incredible job of turning the weird and unplayable first HS into a decent game that just needs some polishing.
Everyone compares it to tCotW but to me tCotW loses in most points. Let’s see:
- You can only carry two big guns unlike in tCotW where you can run around armed to the teeth like the Doom Guy and you don’t even get exhausted. Here you get exhausted after sprinting with a full backpack and your guns.
– Real player with 92.5 hrs in game
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Hunting Simulator 2 Full Review
As with most of my reviews, the TL;DR and final verdict will be at the bottom.
It is a bit strange for someone who loves animals, to go ahead and buy a game where you shoot animals, but I found a unique sense of peace wandering through the forest tracking animals, the water in the distance, the wind howling through the trees and a bird in the distance collectively brought the forest to life. I come from a family of hunters, but I myself never found joy in taking the life of an animal for sport, or tradition. But I enjoyed the wilderness, tracking an animal only to feel the joy of eventually having your patience pay off. So I decided I would get a hunting sim, but which one would fit the bill?
– Real player with 64.3 hrs in game
Sniper Elite 4
6/10 for the game being mostly locked behind DLC and the AI making the game so predictable. Not many perches placed or enemies for epic shots. Where there is a perch there is very few to shoot. Taking a shot is rarely costly. Just run and hide till the enemy goes back to being predictable. they should search all around not just where you were. give a chance to knife them. Rarely can you lure AI into a shot they are so stuck to their path. No matter how many rocks you hit them with. Did play through twice and landing a submarine on Hitler was satisfying but not 10 bucks for DLC satisfying.
– Real player with 239.2 hrs in game
so when i got this game i didn’t know that it would be so awful. you can do surgery on people with bullets extreme precision to help them with dental jaw surgery (is surgery designed to correct conditions of the jaw and lower face related to structure, growth, airway issues including sleep apnea, TMJ disorders, malocclusion problems primarily arising from skeletal disharmonies, other orthodontic dental bite problems that cannot be easily treated with braces, as well as the broad range of facial imbalances, disharmonies, asymmetries and malproportions where correction can be considered to improve facial aesthetics [1] and self esteem. ) source: wikipedia
– Real player with 89.8 hrs in game
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2
I would give this game something between a thumbs up and a thumbs down because I do like some aspects of the game. However, they force me to make a black & white choice and I choose “No Way”. The graphics are pretty good, the basic gameplay is OK but there are a lot of issues:
1. There are places on the maps you can get stuck and not be able to get out of AND you cannot kill yourself to continue playing the game! You have to leave the game altogether and rejoin (if you can).
2. There is no way to kick or ban a player on your own server DURING the game …you have to wait for the game to be over! This is the ONLY thing you can do to protect yourself and it isn’t even in-the-moment or real-time!
– Real player with 265.3 hrs in game
Alright, I’m here to answer some questions you may thinking to yourself.
Is it worth buying it?
Is this game fun?
Beaware of some of it might be spoiler alert.
Personally so far I think this is the best game CI Games have produced. As a sniper-enthusiast I look for pros and cons with this game. I have already in advance completed this game on the Xbox 360 a long time ago, and to be honest I felt more connected into the game, and more sort a say “Alive” on the PC version. Here are some reasons why.
– Real player with 27.2 hrs in game
Sniper Fury
“Sniper Fury” is a f2p time killer, posing as a sniper shooting game. In reality, there is no skill applied, but the patience to grind for another, more powerful rifle, to click your enemies out of the picture faster. More to it, the most significant elements of gameplay there -are energy bars. Yeah, exactly those notorious “stamina” things from browser games, which should instantly give any purposeful PC player a headache. Well, on top of things, there are mandatory bullet cam effects and big explosions every now and then. And the grinding process, where you build up your armory and unlocking yet another stupid “story level”.
– Real player with 231.6 hrs in game
It says the game is Free to play, I would rather say Free to download or Pay to play. Nevertheless it’s still possible to play for free and gain some progress, but slower then when you pay. It’s all about buying and spending rubies to progress, if not, you will have to wait an amount of time to pass a weapon or a squad upgrade for example. Basically everything you do require you to spend rubies in order to gain progress. And if you think you are going to play a sniper game, you will get surprised and very disappointed as I did. This game has nothing to do with sniping at all. You find yourself holding a sniper rifle or a machine gun, you won’t be able to move, all you can do is look, aim and zoom and that’s basically it. And even PvP matches are not with actual players but bots, very disappointing. Sniper Fury is more like a gambling game, so if you want to gamble your money and life away get it, either then that I would never play this game myself for one second.
– Real player with 119.6 hrs in game
Sniper Elite 3
Sniper Elite 3: Afrika is one of my favorite games, and one of the best sniper games ever made. The main strength of SE3 is the sniper killcam but goes way beyond that (like shooting Hitler in the nuts). The graphics and soundtrack are incredible and immersive, and sometimes you just have to take a moment to appreciate the beauty of your surroundings. Hell, just to have a bright sun in a WWII game instead of the old dark and gloomy European setting cliché is already a great thing. The protagonist is a reminiscent of those old WWII action comics and he really resembles Rick O’Connell from The Mummy (which explains The Strange Brigade, but I digress) and the story is straight to the point.
– Real player with 643.2 hrs in game
I’m right on the Recommend/Not Recommend border with “Sniper Elite 3.” It’s possible that since I came back to it from Sniper Elite 4 (which I loved), I’m noticing the problems with it more than I would if I had just continued the series from Sniper Elite V2 (which I also loved). I’ll start with the positive, though: the graphics are really good, the voice acting is excellent, and the production values are good, too. It took me about 40 hours to complete the campaign on Sniper Elite difficulty with all objectives (and optional objectives) met and all Collectibles found. It then took me about another 20 hours to get the rest of the Achievements for the base game. So, even at the current list price of about $30, the dollar per hour ratio is good. Of course, getting it on sale would be much better.
– Real player with 71.7 hrs in game
Sniper Elite V2 Remastered
Sniper Elite V2 Remastered is a third person tactical sniper game.
The sniping is where this game shines. Each shot being affected by wind, gravity (not available on the easiest difficulty) and displayed on the satisfying X-Ray Kill Cam that shows the enemy’s organs tear and burst or their bones shatter. Shots can be masked through the environment noise for the stealthy approach. The SMG is highly inaccurate and the pistol is mostly used for it’s silencer.
The gameplay is slower paced and tactical where you usually sneak around to take out enemies stealthily or use cover and reposition when fighting. To sneak you can throw rocks to distract enemies, move their dead bodies, mask your rifle shots with global sound (artillery fire). The levels however are linear, so you will always follow a predetermined path. The trip wires, dynamites or land mines are rarely used.
– Real player with 49.8 hrs in game
Pros
Graphics look great
Great killcam
When the game allows you to do it properly - great sniping mechanics on Sniper Elite mode
Cons
Karl looks like he’s doing a cossack dance whilst he’s moving
Spawning trigger points penalize stealth
Large distances in game between checkpoints can break immersion
I came from Sniper Elite 4 and had so much fun with that that I wanted to try out the rest of the series. I bought a Steam Bundle for the previous games in the series before the remastered version dropped. The bundle included all the DLC for Sniper Elite v2 apart from the Assassinate The Fuhrer DLC - which was selling for around the same price as the Upgrade Price for the Remastered Version, so I waited for the Remastered version to come out.
– Real player with 42.8 hrs in game
The Signal From Tölva
I really really like this game.
It’s not without flaws. One or two of the flaws are even pretty large. But the game is still really good.
First, the good:
The game is beautiful. The world is really well-crafted and varied enough that you will almost always have something interesting to look at. In particular, the day/night cycle with its moving shadows and gorgeous night sky is really lovely. Exploring this world is a joy, and you never quite know what you’re going to come across next: Wreckage of giant robots? check. Huge ships? Check. Ancient ruins? Check. It’s all here.
– Real player with 37.7 hrs in game
A moody title screen, something about hacking, and you’re in control of a robot… now what?
Tölva took a while to get into. I was sold on this game through flashy screenshots of lasers and robots… but after a very short while I noticed that the weapons are dull and the enemies behave like… well, robots, but not in a positive sense. The ironically small scale of developer Big Robot meant this game could never be completed without skimping in areas where you’d otherwise see quality and variation. Animations are stale, encounters stay the same through the whole game, new weapons bring simple stat increases that keep pace with the strength of enemy shields. You get stuck on things, you get stuck in things, often it feels as if the ground and your feet are two magnets repelling eachother.
– Real player with 37.3 hrs in game
Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts
IF YOU DON’T LIKE THE CORE GAMEPLAY OF SNIPER: GHOST WARRIOR 3, THEN YOU WON’T LIKE THIS GAME EITHER.
Kay, about to the review. 2 years after SGW3, CI Games come back with SGW Contracts. Seems like they know what they are doing this time around. No longer aiming for the AAA games market, scaling down back to AA game.
This review is after day 1 patch 1.02
Positives:
-No more open world. The biggest mistake with SGW3 is open world. Now, in Contracts, you have 5 open-ended maps. This keep the core gameplay from SGW3 which you can play how you want without any restriction. No open world also means faster loading time.
– Real player with 98.9 hrs in game
Summary
I have to give SGWC a “yes” (maybe 3 out of 5 star rating) because I do keep playing it, but – ONLY if you can deal with as many little frustrations as there are fun things about a game. If you’re easily annoyed, you’re probably better off finding a different sniper/shooter.
The Bad
- Terrain hangs you up when it should not.
= Requiring raising of stance
= Resulting in visibility to the enemy
= Saving grace: Enemies don’t recognize you until you’re seen for 1-2 seconds
– Real player with 80.9 hrs in game