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2017 video game

Sniper Ghost Warrior 3
Cover artwork
Programmer(s)	CI Games
Publisher(southward)	CI Games
Director(s)	Paul B. Robinson
Designer(s)	Jess Lebow Alek Sajnach Tomasz Pruski
Artist(s)	Tomek Andrzejewski
Composer(south)	Mikołaj Stroiński
Series	Sniper: Ghost Warrior
Engine	CryEngine
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows PlayStation four Xbox 1
Release	25 April 2017[1]
Genre(southward)	Tactical shooter, stealth
Way(s)	Single-player, multiplayer[2]

Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 is a tactical shooter video game developed and published by CI Games for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox Ane, and was released worldwide on 25 April 2017. It is the fourth entry in the Sniper: Ghost Warrior series and is the sequel to Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2, and is also the first game in the series to feature an open world environment. The game received boilerplate reviews upon release.

Gameplay [edit]

Screenshot showing the game at night, and its rain furnishings.

Similar to its predecessors, Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 is a commencement-person tactical shooter game. Information technology is designed to be less linear than Ghost Warrior and Ghost Warrior ii, since the title is the first in the series to feature an open earth environment,^[three] which tin exist freely explored by the player.^[4] The game'south world is scattered with different activities and side missions which are known as "state of war crimes".^[five] These tin can be completed by the player if they are non playing the primary missions.^[3] According to CI Games, the title is designed to be accessible for both players who are new to the franchise or the genre, while tactical enough for more hardcore players.^[vi]

The game is based on three unlike pillars: target, execute, and survive.^[7] The player tin can use dissimilar approaches to complete missions and defeat enemies, as maps are now larger and more than open up-ended.^[8] For instance, the player tin can utilize stealth and melee gainsay to kill enemies, in gun and run style, or apply the weapons or gadgets provided, like sniper rifles, to snipe enemies from a long distance.^[9]

The game'due south objectives are not shown on the mini-map provided to the histrion. The actor is required to find them past completing intel-gathering missions.^[3] The histrion tin can also use a drone, which is one of the newest additions to the serial and can be controlled by the actor, to browse and survey the environment, and to detect enemies.^{[10] [11]} The drone can too be used to hack enemies' electronic equipment and weapons, and to create distractions.^{[12] [7]} Nevertheless, there are risks when the actor is using the drone, as enemies may become alerted when they spot it. As one of the game's core experiences is sniping, the accuracy of long-range shots is affected by various factors, such equally scale of the burglarize'south scope, weather, air current speed, distance, gravity, and the protagonist'due south animate strength and rate. As a result, the player has to program, suit, and react to the game'due south environments to alter these factors.^{[3] [13]}

Navigation is enhanced in Ghost Warrior iii. The player can carry out some "extreme navigation" movements, co-ordinate to the game'south developer, such as free-running, parkouring, climbing ledges, and rappelling. The player tin can activate Lookout man Manner, which is an ability of the game's protagonist to highlight places of interest and detect explosives such equally mines. The player can besides make apply of the manner to find a new sniping spot during missions.^[3] The game too focuses on realism; as a effect, it also features a dynamic weather arrangement and day-night bike which effects the gameplay and enemy behavior. The player can make use of these situations to create tactical advantages.^[14]

In addition, the role player can travel to the "safe house" where they can collect supplies and resources like first-help kits and ammunition for weapons. These safe houses also act as fast travel points for the player for easy navigation of the world. In addition, the thespian can craft and modify their weapons and bullets. These upgrades tin ameliorate the weapons' efficiency and accuracy.^[3] When non playing missions, the role player can interact with a neutral faction, which may or may not assist the player in completing missions.^[3] Safe house is a safe place where the role player can choose equipment, sleep to a designated hour, arts and crafts, purchase items in the store and commencement missions. At that place are several prophylactic houses on each map, and role player needs to discover them to be able to utilise them. At that place will exist loot waiting or new weapons to equip in newly discovered safe houses. The player can fast travel to a safe houses from any identify in the globe (fast travel is disabled after entering a mission area).

Afterward choosing a mission, its area will exist visible on the map, and a GPS path will be displayed. Various points of interest, which the player discovered earlier, will also be checked on the map. Road to the mission area leads through open maps, where the player can encounter random events, points of interest, hunt for animals, etc. Which route the player chooses is up to them.

The player has its own car for exploration. It volition be there whenever they exits a safe house, or travel to previously discovered fast travel points. The role player can employ it to quickly get across map areas. Enemies can also spot the player inside the vehicle, and then being conscientious is notwithstanding required.

Plot [edit]

The histrion takes the function of U.S. Marine Captain Jonathan "Jon" North,^[7] who, along with his brother Robert, is sent to the Russian-Ukrainian border to destroy an abased stockpile of Soviet-era bio-weapons before they can be stolen by terrorists. The two succeed in their mission, simply are ambushed by an unidentified group of special forces soldiers, led by a human named Vasilisk who plays a game of Russian roulette with Jon before knocking him out and capturing Robert.

Two years later, Jon is sent to Georgia to assist destabilize the local Georgian separatist cells, who are reported to exist receiving an abnormally high level of funding and resources. Jon accustomed the assignment with the hidden agenda of locating his brother Robert, later on hearing intelligence chatter placing him in the region. He is assisted by his JSOC handler Frank Simms, a Georgian ex-special forces sniper named Lydia with whom he was formerly in a romantic relationship, and Israeli Mossad agent Raquel, who is in the region looking to capture and recruit a Russian scientist named Sergei Flostov whom she believes is being held by the Separatists.

The Separatists are led by a pair of twins, Davit and Tomas, and a adult female named Inna, whom Tomas is scheduled to marry. Jon infiltrates the nuptials in hopes of gathering intel to help him assassinate Tomas later, but the wedding is interrupted when Tomas' bodyguard guns him down at the altar earlier being killed himself by an unseen sniper. Standing other missions against the Separatists, Jon learns that events in Georgia are being manipulated by an international conspiracy known as the 23 Order, whose forces are equipped with high-tech experimental weaponry and led by a mysterious soldier with seemingly superhuman abilities known as Armazi.

In the process of destabilizing the Separatists, Jon is sent to kill a local criminal offence lord doing business with the Separatists, who turns out to be Vasilisk, who is revealed as a member of the 23 Society. When confronted by Jon, Vasilisk once again plays a game of Russian roulette with him, which ends with Vasilisk shooting himself in the head before Jon can interrogate him.

Jon is eventually confronted by Armazi himself, who turns out to be Robert, who has been subjected to drug therapy, genetic engineering science, and brainwashing to transform him into a supersoldier loyal to the 23 Society. Robert demonstrates his superhuman abilities to Jon before unsuccessfully attempting to recruit him into the 23 Society.

Later, Jon receives intel that the scientist Sergei Flostov is being held at a Separatist facility. Jon rescues Flostov, who states that he was forced by the 23 Society to help them create brainwashed, genetically modified super-soldiers. Flostov informs Jon that the 23 Society recently captured an American soldier and are going to execute him soon due to failing to brainwash him. Jon travels to the location where the captured soldier is existence held and discovers it is Cole Anderson, the protagonist of the previous game. Cole, who was defeated in combat by Armazi and afterwards mutilated by him across the point of recovery, reveals to Jon that Flostov is actually the leader of the 23 Society, and so asks Jon to exit backside his pistol and then that he can end his own life and die with nobility, which he does as Jon leaves to pursue Flostov. Flostov contacts Jon over the radio and gloats nearly how the 23 Society killed Robert'south wife Milla, then used her death to break his mind and brainwash him.

Jon saves one of the Separatist leaders, Inna, from an assault by 23 Lodge super-soldiers, and learns from her that the other remaining Separatist leader, Davit, is centrolineal with the 23 Society and responsible for killing her fiancé Tomas. Jon kills Davit, and in exchange Inna tells him where to find Flostov and Robert/Armazi, who are located at an old uranium mine where Flostov has gear up upwards a nuclear reactor to produce yellowcake uranium for the cosmos of nuclear weapons. As Jon infiltrates the mine fighting through mercenaries and 23 Society supersoldiers, the nuclear reactor becomes unstable. Jon confronts Flostov and Robert at the reactor, revealing to Robert that Flostov and the 23 Club killed his wife Milla, staging her death to make it look like she was killed in an American drone strike to turn him against his country. Upon learning how he had been brainwashed and manipulated, Robert kills Flostov, and so locks himself in the reactor room to manually finish the meltdown in lodge to give Jon time to escape, dying of radiation poisoning in the process. Jon exfiltrates in a helicopter alongside Lydia and Raquel, vowing revenge against the remaining members of the 23 Society.

Evolution [edit]

The game is developed by CI Games, which besides developed the game's predecessors. While the previous games were not a critical success, the company considered the series a commercial success, the kickoff two games of the franchise selling over 5.5 million copies collectively.^[fifteen]

Announced on 16 December 2014 and regarded as "the best sniper experience for PC and next-gen consoles" by CI Games, the game'south offset gameplay footage was shown during E3 2015,^[16] while the offset gameplay was uploaded to CI Games' YouTube channel on 22 July 2015.^[17]

The game was scheduled for the showtime half of 2016,^[viii] still it was delayed due to ambitious plans (i.due east. open globe) and feedback received from the game's beta.

The game's upkeep and scale are significantly expanded and are larger than that of its predecessors, and the title is the first entry in the series to have a AAA product scale.^[18] The game's creative managing director is Paul B. Robinson, a military veteran who likewise has a 20-twelvemonth career in game evolution.^[xix] The lead narrative designer is Jess Lebow, who had worked on franchises like League of Legends, Guild Wars and Far Cry.^[19] Co-ordinate to CI Games, Sniper: Ghost Warrior two laid the foundation for the game's development.^[xx]

Reception [edit]

Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.^{[21] [22] [23]}

JeuxActu wrote that good open world had not been achieved due to budget.^[31] "Pockets of civilian life practice their all-time to present the illusion of a living, breathing society, but their nonplussed reactions to a burly marine barging into their houses aren't exactly believable" wrote Richard Wakeling of GameSpot.

Caley Roark of IGN wondered why zip in this game felt "novel or unique". And so Caley realised the game was a comeback to linear action games he had enjoyed on original Xbox, even if disguised in open world's clothing.^[32] Caley wrote "Variety keeps these tight missions from getting repetitive". He thought AI to exist by and large competent, it "offered a reasonable claiming" but did not crook by finding him without reason. Notwithstanding, Caley Roark did non similar graphics of Sniper Ghost Warrior iii, called character models and textures "cartoonish". In the end, he gave the game a "mediocre" rating of 5.5.^[32]

PlayStation Universe gave score of vii and wrote: "this latest instalment is the finest the series has seen to engagement, fifty-fifty if that might seem similar faint praise to some" and "narrative of Sniper Ghost Warrior three pulls liberally from the pantheon of cheesy sniper and scout movies that have come and gone over the last twenty years".^[33]

Richard Wakeling of GameSpot besides attributed plot to B-movies: "Even the predictable, profanity-laden story is reminiscent of the blazon of gritty B-movies Steven Seagal is known for". Richard Wakeling gave the game a "mediocre" rating of 5, giving the article header "misses the mark".^[34] Wakeling agreed that open earth and the continued increase of scale and flexibility of the game had been a good idea but yet maintained that the game is "frequently disrupted by a myriad of flaws", such as the barrenness of the open-globe environment and the multitude of technical and graphical performance glitches. Richard Wakeling noted that sniping in the game "is all about existence cautious and taking a measured approach" which "offers a unique arroyo" which, in turn, makes Sniper Ghost Warrior iii stand out from its contemporaries. Yet, he summed up claiming "sniping is the winning card in its [Sniper Ghost Warrior iii] deck, but CI Games regularly plays other hands to the game's detriment".^[34]

Ray Porreca of Destructoid gave the game a "poor" rating of three.^[35] Porreca called the game boring; a "boring open-world shooter stitched together with one-half-baked gameplay systems and incongruous storytelling". Porreca critiqued the game's open-world setting, calling it a "detriment to the game".^[35] Eurogamer 'due south reviewer, yet, wrote: "during the cadre loop of infiltration, sniping and exfiltration - the open-globe shines."^[36]

Volition Freeman from The Guardian seemed he couldn't make up his mind whether Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 manages to distinguish itself amid other shooters. He writes "It'due south full of decent enough missions that often require a more than tactical approach than those seen in more than gung-ho shooters", even so he writes "sniping gunplay doesn't quite practice plenty to brand this experience distinct". Finally, he summed up: "with so many military machine shooters on offer, there is still not quite enough here to make it stand up out". According to Freeman, the game'due south narrative is full of stereotypes, the setting likewise familiar, just the game is pretty.^[30]

Dan Thompson of Push button Square agreed that the game'southward narrative had stereotypes, which he chosen "generic and slow". However, he appreciated the game's "fun gameplay mechanics". He as well wrote that picking off enemies 1 by one through stealth "definitely feels as if you're a ghost". However he was disquisitional of the game's technical performance, writing: "The game is incredibly unoptimised, 1 of the worst we've seen this generation". He also complained the reviewers had got stuck in the surroundings with their vehicle "almost twice".^[29]

Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw ranked the game at #1 on his listing of the Five Worst Games of 2017.^[37]

Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 sold over ane million copies of the game beyond PC, PS4, and Xbox One in its first 10 months.^[38] CI Games CEO Marek Tyminski stated that the title had achieved a relatively successful outcome despite mediocre media reception. The game was the pb correspondent to CI Games' €24 million in profits over the 2017 fiscal yr.^[38]

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External links [edit]

• Sniper Ghost Warrior iii at MobyGames

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