Of patiently waiting for the moment to strike and beating a hasty retreat. After a year spent with Hitman, I’ve come to appreciate the finer points of games that value stealth over overt strikes. It’s just a shame that those methods are downright dull. You’ve got more than two dozen missions to do so and plenty of ammunition to scavenge from the countryside in your attempts to quell an uprising that threatens the nation. You are a lethal killing machine, flung into a conflict in the war-torn open-world of Georgia and tasked with ending it one bullet at a time. You are Jonathan North, badass at a distance or up close. The setup itself for this threequel paints a familiar scene. Which is a pity really, because Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3’s main party trick is hella impressive. Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 isn’t one of them. Outside of that moment however? Only a precious handful of games have ever managed to make such an experience fun beyond the scope. A single moment of life or death that defines it as you line up that killshot. It’s that very moment between holding your breath and squeezing a trigger that can make or break a sniping game.
You’re breathing hard, your scope is wobbling and your target is conveniently edging into view while flanked by dozens of guards who happen to be armed to the teeth. It’s a sub-genre where finding your nest and setting up is a thrill all on its own. I’ve always thought of sniping games as the benchmark for a particularly niche appeal within a genre.
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