Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts

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6.7

Mixed or average reviews- based on 144 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 23 out of 144
  3. Negative: 42 out of 144

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  1. Smerf
    Nov 29, 2019
    1
    Hi!

    General gameplay idea is fun - liked to be a sniper. Something that works well in this game is sniping - it's fun for sure! But the entire experience is ruined by bugs, dumb AI and unfair mechanics. Examples? AI stands in open and thinks its covered Bullets hits in invisible geometry Enemy snipers spotting you and only way to know that is by an indicator O_o On top of that    Hi!

    General gameplay idea is fun - liked to be a sniper. Something that works well in this game is sniping - it's fun for sure!

    But the entire experience is ruined by bugs, dumb AI and unfair mechanics.
    Examples?
    AI stands in open and thinks its covered
    Bullets hits in invisible geometry
    Enemy snipers spotting you and only way to know that is by an indicator O_o

    On top of that many of scores here are made by only one review accounts. Looks .. strange...    … Expand
  2. TheKZOShow
    Apr 13, 2020
    4
    I cannot fathom how anyone can call this game fun or good. It really is a crying shame that this franchise has evolved into something that is a shell of what a Sniping game used to be. I've owned every game in this franchise and it has gotten worse with every single installment. The new things that are in this game are on paper great but nothing works. There so many inconsistencies itI cannot fathom how anyone can call this game fun or good. It really is a crying shame that this franchise has evolved into something that is a shell of what a Sniping game used to be. I've owned every game in this franchise and it has gotten worse with every single installment. The new things that are in this game are on paper great but nothing works. There so many inconsistencies it feels like a joke. If you just want to blast away like your on set for Arnold's Commando it's fine but when you want to sneak around, take long shots and be clever you run face first into a wall over and over. There are 5 missions in the single player campaign.... 5. Enemies are dumb as **** invisible, some are invincible unless you use a .50 cal sniper, Secondary rifles/weapons can't be suppressed so you can't use them, You can't aim your secondary weapons without having a stroke for some reason, chain kills only work half the time, semi-automatic rifles have a firing delay that makes them as slow as bolt-action rifles when firing rapidly, The Checkpoint saving system is triggered by waypoints on the map so you can complete objectives, get away then die and you have to do the entire objective over again because you ran another way out of the place, You do the same **** every mission, Gravity an wind means there's a 5 cm drop on shoots taken from a distance of 20 meters and there is ALWAYS winds above 6 m/s, movement is the slowest and clunkiest it has ever been, Stealthing is so slow and boring you just run past everybody because the AI is retarded, platforming is clunky and not needed when it makes the main character moan like he's being mounted by a donkey every time he grabs a ledge. And mainly the tagging system is the most idiotic I've experienced. You need to equip your binoculars for that and switch between your scope on your rifle and the binoculars..... Why on earth do you need the bino when you can zoom the same in your scope and it is your mask that does the tagging? You are wasting almost hours of swapping between weapons all the time because the binoculars has to do the tagging of enemies witch is a necessity.

    There are good parts like the gunplay in general other than pistols only sometimes doing damage, the look of the game is nice and clean, the amount of weapons and gadgets is fine and I like the story and setting of the game. But my gosh is it boring and everything feels like a chore to do. The new challenges is OK to have in the missions/contracts but most of them are so pointless and just means you have to go full Rambo afterwards. This franchise is done. It didn't need to be perfect or eve close but it's taking its mouth so full it's choking on itself.    … Expand
  3. magpie666
    Nov 22, 2019
    1
    Terrible gameplay.
    Awful dated graphics.
    Awful Movements/Climbing
    The Tutorial is a Joke
    Empty world
    Awful A.I.
    Awful camera movements

    Utterly Utterly BORING.

    DO NOT BUY.!!!
  4. CesarV
    Nov 29, 2019
    0
    I was really hyped for this game , it's a shame it's total trash compared to SGW3 which I loved to 100%
  5. chase000
    Nov 30, 2019
    2
    Awful head bob + temporal AA makes everything go blurry all the time. Can't disable either. Completely unplayable.
  6. SRKNZ
    Dec 17, 2019
    1
    I found the last game infinitely more playable and enjoyable. This ones fiddly interface with a weird weapons HUD, horrible weapons handling, more key combinations than your average piano and an odd ball ranged aiming system, that was hard to grasp, simply fell flat. Its also loaded down by in game bugs, some of which are a real nightmare and a dim witted AI.

    The checkpoint based save    I found the last game infinitely more playable and enjoyable. This ones fiddly interface with a weird weapons HUD, horrible weapons handling, more key combinations than your average piano and an odd ball ranged aiming system, that was hard to grasp, simply fell flat. Its also loaded down by in game bugs, some of which are a real nightmare and a dim witted AI.

    The checkpoint based save system is just as horrible in a game with this degree of problems not to mention difficulty.

    Didn't like the anti Russian vibe either which was reminiscent of the tedious nonsense spouted by the US's generally moronic dishonest MSM and elements of its political establishment.

    On the upside this game is pretty enough but as we know good looks will only take you so far. For me a disappointment on many fronts, which is a shame, as I do like the Sniper franchise.

    My advice try the older games in this franchise they are simply better, more accessibible and less frustrating.    … Expand
  7. lord_raccoon
    May 29, 2020
    3
    Its just another bad Ghost Warrior game, like all previous. It's EXTREMELY boring.
    No any interesting mechanics. You know, im kinda tired of gameplay, which was introduced almost ten years ago in FC3: im tired of throwing rocks, making stealth kills so that a person who stands in 5 meters doesnt hear any noises.
    Missions are now just bunch of tasks, it really look like hitman, but still    Its just another bad Ghost Warrior game, like all previous. It's EXTREMELY boring.
    No any interesting mechanics. You know, im kinda tired of gameplay, which was introduced almost ten years ago in FC3: im tired of throwing rocks, making stealth kills so that a person who stands in 5 meters doesnt hear any noises.
    Missions are now just bunch of tasks, it really look like hitman, but still dont give you really unique locations which you enjoy to explore, dont give you a real reasons to replay the mission.
    Very few content, including just several rifles and secondary guns. Different bullets mechanic is not that impressive, it doesnt save the day.
    Aiming system was meant to be very realistics, with a wind influencing on trajectory of the bullet, physics of falling on distance...tbh even Battlefield 3 could offer you better sniper experience. In this game its made so casual, that there even no joy to kill enemies. Moreover, i was laughing lot, when i found out...that in the BUILDING wind INFLUENCE ON THE TRAJECTORY OF YOUR BULLET. You guys even didnt work on such things, is there anything left to discuss?
    Yes, still there are some. Like very dumb AI: imagine the patrol. There are two guys standing. You making a kill of the first one. What the other guy should do, when he understand there is a sniper?
    HE IS SLOWLY CROUCHING AND LOOKING FOR THE ENEMY. Its NOT ALWAYS the case, when your enemies firstly taking cover, and only then searching for you. Btw they will find you even if you are hiding in 500 meters and will shoot you back.
    And yeah, slow motion in this game really sucks. It doesnt stand even close to what Sniper Elite offers. Its just a flying bullet and a death of an enemy with a level of action like in CS:GO. Its not interesting at all to watch on this, so i even turned it off in settings.
    Any pros? Maybe graphics is good. I think this is all what positive i found in Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts.
    All-in-all, the game is really poor on both mechanics and experience. Locations are not interesting to explore, mechanics are not interesting to experiment with. It feels like a mini-game of Far Cry 5.
    I dont recommend this to buy and dont recommend those devs to make a fifth trial on sniper ghost warrior. Will you ever understand, that this is not what you can do the best?    … Expand
  8. Firebluetom
    Apr 16, 2020
    3
    Developers/Company: "Meh, close enough, I'm tired of working on this"

    In general this game is average at best. The use of CryEngine and trying to make this game to be a Triple-A game is just that; a try. I don't make video games and can imagine the creative process and development take time and at the end of the day you need to make money as a company... BUT this game cut a bunch of    Developers/Company: "Meh, close enough, I'm tired of working on this"

    In general this game is average at best. The use of CryEngine and trying to make this game to be a Triple-A game is just that; a try. I don't make video games and can imagine the creative process and development take time and at the end of the day you need to make money as a company... BUT this game cut a bunch of corners to make it out the door and the experience is far from great. It's like they wanted to make FarCry for sniping but basically just sh*t the bed.

    First, the Pros:
    - The sniping feels good, you get a silenced rifle from the start and don't have to worry that you need to upgrade to it like in various other games. You need to adjust for wind and distance, hold your breath, and the gratuitous kill cam will be your reward for patience.
    - Main missions along with challenges, rivals and bounties help add play time for the completion-ists out there.
    - Fast travel in the map is useful but limited

    Cons:
    - Good lord are there many bugs I've experienced: NPCs floating mid air, falling between two things and can't get out, placing C4 and then can't get your weapons back cause system thinks you're still placing C4, you complete an objective in a mission and then that objective is still on the screen and marked for you to complete, ... the list goes on
    - The save system: plain sucks. This is basically checkpoints, find the right one and you can save. This isn't some old limited system that requires a memory card. The user should either be allowed to save anywhere or be able to load from some list of recent (checkpoint) saves. This bit me quite hard a few times as I was trying to finish a mission a certain way (like using only a knife or not setting off alarms). I messed something up and reloaded last checkpoint and found myself halfway across the map once and the other finding out that my mistake was retained and I basically would have to redo the mission.
    - For some reason your secondary weapon and sidearm are not silenced from the get go.
    - Upgrade system is available but the upgrades don't seem linear. The upgrades are decent.
    - The scripted events are pretty painful; to trigger them you have to take a very specific path like enter through a specific door or else the guards don't move. There are multiple ways to achieve goals so that is great but when the guards are standing somewhere and you want them to move you have to go around the other side of the building climbing here and there so that you trigger the scripted event and can get to the objective.    … Expand
  9. Pdarran
    Feb 15, 2021
    0
    Easily the most bugged game I have ever played. The errors are so numerous is just plain not worth playing, you can get stuck on a railroad tie, die from shooting a man in the head from a certain window, your gadgets fail to work, the sound gets supper glitchy and you can shoot through enemies.
  10. Thompson001
    May 6, 2021
    1
    Just awful gameplay and just play boring no idea why there is a number 2 it was such a waste of money and I got it on a deal my aswell play sniper elite as there are much better games
  11. realWhiteMan
    Apr 8, 2023
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. My rating is based on my impressions of the game. This is not an objective review. I play quite a big number of titles per year and decided to review them as a peace of art and not as a product.… Expand

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71

Mixed or average reviews - based on 27 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 19 out of 27
  3. Negative: 0 out of 27
  1. Player 2
    Mar 2, 2020
    75
    Contracts is a signal to the world that the Sniper Ghost Warrior franchise is no longer content on being a niche title. It is coming for the stealth big boys.
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  2. GameCritics
    Jan 13, 2020
    75
    At its core Sniper Ghost Warrior: Contracts is a challenging, but fundamentally well-balanced sniping FPS, but the mask was supposed to be the thing that empowered the character and made them more than a match for the armies they’re up against — I just can’t understand why the developers didn’t let me choose how to use it, rather than forcing annoying limits upon me.
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  3. 3DJuegos
    Dec 19, 2019
    65
    Sniper Ghost Warrior Contract’s action scenes and freeroamed maps are overshadowed but better action games, but it’s snipping mechanics are competent enough.
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