Sniper: Ghost Warrior

Sniper: Ghost Warrior is released as an interesting first-person shooter, with stunning visuals and a cool cinematographic style, but there isn't enough depth in the story and gameplay.

Sniper Ghost Warrior screams budget title unfortunately, and whilst there's some good ideas thrown into the pot, the execution and levels of polish let the game down.

Hopefully, City Interactive can bring something more fleshed out to the table next time.

The graphics are surprisingly good for a budget title, in spite of some sloppy animation and chunky shadows, but they can't distract much from a ho-hum script, an utterly generic plot centered around regime-change and drug-running on a fictional South American island, and lifeless missions populated by soldiers who've mastered firing 90 degrees the wrong way and still connecting-all of which make the game's campaign feel padded at only 10 hours long.

A flawed sniper game that mixes nice graphics with repetitive gameplay, poor AI and a technological mess. Sniper: Ghost Warrior is pretty average overall.

Sometimes it isn't a bad thing to be a one trick pony, especially when that trick is as well executed as it is here.

Technical issues make the single player mode frustrating. Multi-player mode is generic.

Even though this is a dedicated sniper game, it is still more fun to take your enemies down with the sniper rifle in Crysis. Sniper: Ghost Warrior just isn't all that fun and the perfect sniper game is yet to be seen.

However well it might model the experience of killing with deadly precision, Sniper: Ghost Warrior suffers from a barrage of technical and design mishaps that make it hard to recommend wholeheartedly. If you've been hard up for a shooter with precisely this sort of narrow focus, it's worth a look, especially given the budget price, so long as you temper your expectations.

Poor AI and insane difficulty gets between you and the sniping in Sniper: Ghost Warrior.

City Interactive misses the shot.

Sniper – Ghost Warrior is a really good game with a cool atmosphere. Some points are a bit ugly, like the shadows or the way some enemies shoot you without even seeing you. Overall is it an okay game for this genre.

This is a FPS with an original mechanic, which tests our patience when solving the compromised situations we will find through the game. But some flaws in its visuals and AI prevent Sniper Ghost Warrior to become one of the leading titles of the market.

Ghost Warrior is a bit like a basically excellent rough diamond, that no one wanted to polish any further. It's got good ideas and stunning visuals, but nowadays, that alone just isn't enough to be able to keep up with the competition.

Much scope for improvement. [Sept 2010, p.89]

Enemy A.I. is ludicrously accurate and all-seeing. [Sept 2010, p.85]