Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts

This game is a fantastic alternative to on-line platforms with no WiFi lag.

It was fun short game, different maps with different options of approach to each contract. Opportunity to pick up different weapons and try them. Give it a go.

Sadly the game started with some nifty problems. It's better now after a ton of patches. The cursor bug was already topic of the other comments here and is gladly resolved, but there is something which will really hurt your gameplay: If you decide to stop gaming for minute – or more probable the game decides this for you: it just freezes every now and then – and then reload the last save you will have a bad surprise all the killed soldiers are back alive. And if by chance your near one of them, they have an advantage: while your screen is still black they already see you. No chance of survival here. You have to start the whole mission again. Speaking of missions: There not so many of them – five (It's aiming heavily at replaying them) If it's not too much already: The game has severe micro lags. Even if the game world has extraordinary assets and has plenty of stuff lying around the player can't get rid of the feeling it's liveless and empty. Collectables are already marked on your map, and everything which looks like could give you intel or other insights won't. This makes it a little blunt. However: All in all I still like playing this game! Regarding EAC: There is a way to get rid of it in the forums...

A solid tactical sniper experience.

I always thought Ghost Warrior 3 was a tad underrated as a game so I gave SGWC a chance with open eyes. Visually it's a decent game I guess but it's definitely in the AA category - compared to the X-ray shots of the Sniper Elite-series, the gory kill shots aren't exactly impressive. You play as Seeker, some sort of mercenary that infiltrates the fictional Siberian republic (a breakaway region of Russia that has declared independence) and in 5 different maps you are tasked with eliminating certain figures as well as doing other commando-esque tasks such as retrieving intel and the occasional sabotage. Besides human foes you have to deal with cameras and automated turrets but fortunately you have a hi-tech mask, essentially a pair of magic binoculars that lets you tag enemies and track their movements around corners as well spotting mines, drones and displaying items of interest in the enviroment. Gameplay-wise, it's sneak em'up combined with sniping, lots of sniping. On the standard difficulty, the regular shot isn't very challenging as you rarely face enemies beyond 300 meters but the challenge lies more in the puzzle of picking the correct order of dispatching your foes without anyone noticing and if you are spotted, it's time to retreat before the goons starts firing back - a few shots from an AK is enough to put you down so open fire fights are best avoided. There isn't much of a story to SGWC and compared to SGW3, it feels scaled back. It doesn't help that the game is still buggy more than 5 years after release and enemies magically disappear when you leave an area, which is an easy thing to exploit since any corpse left behind will also vanish and not return when you do. Bugs frequently shows themselves when you load a save file, for instance a drone jammer that I took out came back into service after I respawned but you could no longer destroy it. Enemies also get stuck in the terrain on the regular. All in all - a decent but not great game.