Arriving in Zindah Province, I noticed, once more, how beautiful the game looked when I reached a high mountain outlook. It’s all quite brutal too, but I’ll circle back around to that soon.Īs satisfying as it was to sneak around, popping enemies with a silenced pistol, and knife them up close, I was getting a bit off track. Seemingly oblivious to the game that I was playing, I had a nice discussion with the team about how not many people went for that option, but I can appreciate that close quarters even is an option.īut close quarters can be helpful – grabbing guards to interrogate them can give you intel about the area, highlight nearby enemies, and more. At first, I tried to take things up close and personal with a pistol. Speaking of choice, chatting with the team while working on my target, it was clear that there was an emphasis on player choice when designing the maps and targets in Contracts 2. But if all of this sounds a bit too unruly for you, lower difficulty options give you a choice to tone down the things you have to worry about. It’s not quite a simulation, the team insists, but there is a degree of realism and consideration that I feel is unmatched in games so far. It was a bit overwhelming at first, but by the end of the session, I was able to line up not only headshots but double headshots too. Not only do you have to line up the shot, like other games, but you have to take into account wind, distance, and bullet drop to line up the perfect shot. Contracts 2’s dedication to realism is commendable. It’s at this point that I’m taken aback – there’s a whole lot of numbers and details on the screen that I’m not used to seeing in a Sniper game. I grab my rifle and start to aim at the training targets. Given that so much action in Contracts 2 will take place a fair distance away, it’s encouraging to see that the detail up close hasn’t been forgotten either.Īfter a brief moment to take in the environment, the tutorial begins. It even reacts to weather when I’m not rustling through it. Everything reacts to me moving – if I’m crawling through vegetation, it reacts as I’d expect it to. It’s a beautifully stark world to set the game in and one that I really can’t wait to explore in the final game. This is a game that takes place in the middle east, and not many games I’ve played have been able to capture the harsh and arid landscape that the team at CI Games have managed to do so well. The first thing that is immediately obvious to me is just how nice it all looks.
Following some delays, the game is almost here, but I’ve had a bit of time with the opening moments of the game. I’ve had experience with Sniper Elite and even dabbled in the sniper assassinations in Hitman, but I don’t think I’ve ever played a game as authentic as Sniper: Ghost Warrior Contracts 2.
Still, I didn’t realise how bizarrely relaxing a game about sniping could be. I usually enjoy the fast and furious pacing of shooters like DOOM and Wolfenstein. Sniper games are such a breath of fresh air for me.
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