Sniper: Ghost Warrior
About the Game
Isla Trueno, Colombia is a nice little island. Beautiful beaches, clear water, and awesome looking jungles as far as one can see. It's also home to an ultra-rare form of uranium called Black 235, whose trade allows the local dictator General Manuel Vasquez to acquire military hardware and infrastructure. At first glance Vasquez is basically a drug dealer who was send by the cartel to Isla Trueno to run their drug operations on the island.
Gameplay & Core Systems
In most of the 16 missions of the game, players is put into the shoes of Gunnery Sergeant Tyler Wells, a MOS 0317 (Scout Sniper). Tyler also has access to a silenced pistol and throwing knives if things get a bit more personal, but most of the time players views his targets from at least a 100 meters away. Expecting to run to cover and then immediately make the headshot is a no-go and instead an exercise in trying to keep the cross-hair from swinging around so much. If the enemy is moving, players also has to factor in the time the bullet takes to the target. At the lower difficulty levels, players can hold his breath to activate a slow-motion effect, the enemies are marked red (and friendlies can't even be injured) and a small red circle shows where the bullet will hit to make it easier for inexperienced players.
Standout Features
- Getting the kill-shot at such a range isn't an easy task, especially considering that the AI can hear and find the origin of a shot pretty fast.
- In addition there are some materials the bullet can go through - including multiple enemies standing in a row.
- They run guns blazing through the enemy camp, using standard equipment like the M16 or AK-47 (picked up from fallen enemies) as well as a destructive perk to take out the enemy while searching for the secret laptops scattered around the levels.
- For everything above he needs to find said medi-packs of which he can carry five at a time.
- Here up to eight players can try to find and kill each other on the six large maps in three different game-modes: Deathmatch, Team-Deathmatch, and VIP.
- Each of the four classes also differs in how much health they have and how fast they can run.
- The game however doesn't solely feature sniper stealth missions.
- Instead during the campaign, players will slip into the boots of other members of the team like the spotter, which makes out targets for the sniper and normal grunts.
Modes & Ways to Play
Crawling from cover to cover in first person with one of the four different sniper models including the Russian Dragunov and the German MSG-90, carefully lining up shots and vanishing into the scenery after the kill has been made. In multiplayer it's all about auto regeneration. In multiplayer each player carries the standard equipment sniper, pistol and knives.
Presentation & Atmosphere
The world watched it happening.
