Patrick spent twenty-five hours on the game before writing the review, earning 330 Gamerscore. If you enjoy this genre, Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 can still offer many hours of single player excitement, as long as you can get past the technical issues.Ī multiplayer review will be published when the content is live! However, stopping at that would take away from the enjoyable sniping there is to be found in the game. You can’t help but notice some issues that really need to patched. Score: 70% |Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 lacks a level of polish that you could expect at this price. Fortunately, it doesn’t make the loud noise in the game world, and the shot will still count as silenced. This is a strange decision as during really stealthy play it completely breaks the immersion when this gets triggered. When bullet time triggers during a great shot, sounds are vastly amplified making your silenced shot seem like an incredible explosion.Reloading put me back in a safe house instead of at a checkpoint in that mission. However, I’ve also had a couple of crashes, one in a long (and cool) mission. There are some technical issues some are minor graphical glitches or the “Y” button prompt frequently not showing up when looking at a gun on the ground.The voice acting performance used to tell the story is a bit inconsistent between characters, ranging from good enough to very mediocre.
The storytelling is very cliché, it’s hard not to see the unexpected plot twists coming as if you were scoped in on them from the start.I clocked the loading screen after selecting “continue campaign” at a little over three and half minutes! The loading times, when starting the game or transitioning to a new area are incredibly long.While I feel the single player is what makes this game worth playing, promising a multiplayer mode and not including it doesn’t sit well with me. However, at launch, the entire multiplayer feature is nowhere to be found. The season pass supposedly includes new multiplayer maps in the future.I suggest you check those out when you play this game. Though travelling to your mission start does add a bit of immersion, and some of the points of interests actually are interesting.
The world is really empty with hardly any traffic and little to do. While using an open world is par for the course with most FPS games these days, Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 is not the best implementation of the concept.While the game isn’t ugly by any means, it also doesn’t look as polished as you could expect from a modern game with a realistic visual style.
When trying to infiltrate an enemy base, for instance, I always took my time and used a diverse range of tools and tactics to get the job done. On several occasions, I actually felt like I was sneaking around.
It’s not a simulation by any means, but it does give the illusion of some realism involved. Adjusting for distance, seeing your character turn a nob with distance markers when you do, and then lining up your shot adjusting for wind or elevation feels great.