Posted on: February 28, 2025
Mjauv
Verified ownerGames: 1037 Reviews: 79
Scaled back ambitions
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.
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