Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2

I really want to give a comprehensive review, as I love this game. - Huge vertical maps. I really loved moving through the maps and the environment. Graphics is damn good. Design, too. Each region feels like a small open-world with enough freedom to explore different paths, but enough limits to stay focused on the objective. And each objective comes with a great environment with it's own challenges. It never felt repetitive. - Guns - huge variety of different tools allowing for various approaches. Sniper rifles have a really good variety. However, the when it comes to pistols and secondary weapons, I ended up using one pistol which I think is the best, one best shotgun and one best rifle. I would appreciate more variety there. Bow with exploding and gas arrows is awesome and fun to play with, though. - Gadgets - really great and also with good progression. I have to admit I did not used them as much at the begining, but later on. I found out they are actually quite useful and many are fun. Drone is really awesome. - Gameplay - decent. From agresive stealth with a lots of repositioning, through patient recon and waiting for the opportunity, to every tight situation after you miss a shot or make a mistake. It has the atmosphere of a high stakes game. - Sniping is the biggest asset of the game. It's fun. One thing I miss is actual wind in the environment, which would allow to observe wind. Instead it's all in the scope even on the highest difficulty. Feels a little arcade but does the job well. One thing I really missed is the ability to turn off the killshot cam completely. It can be very annoying, especially after a risky shot which demands fast repositioning afterwards or every time I want to shoot two or three targets in quick successions. It can real break the flow. - Stealth lacks a bit of depth. Enemies are quite short-sighted. I'd expect they can see a dead body in the middle of the road from 20 meters. Also, every time high value target dies, it has absolutely zero effect on enemy behavior. I would expect the will actively sweep the whole map just to find me... but few minutes in a bush and they completely forget president just died. Wierd. However, when it comes to fast stealth the game really shines. Observing the enemies, coming up with a pan and then execute it agressively is quite satisfying, especially with all the gadgets. - Bugs and clunkiness - the game is very very clean. Movement can be a little wierd when it comes t climbing. But once I got used to it, it was just fine. Then there a some small bugs and occasional wierd enemy behavior. Also a bug when you can get "complete region on highest difficulty" after doing just one contract in the region... Some occasional bugs in the menu. But that's it. Nothing game-breaking, nothing too annoying. I really appreciate how clean it feels. - Replay potential is HUGE. every region has it's challenges and some of them require to get to know the regions a bit. Achievements and challenges are well thought of, or at least some of them. There are "do this 10x" filer tasks. I mean, who cares about collectibles in a singleplayer game... However, there are also really hard challenges and achievements and game is well designed around them. Solution is not always obvious, which makes it fun. Also, something about the design actually makes the game better every time I replay a region. It gives more "special forces" feel to it, going into the contract knowing the layout almost by heart coming up with new approaches and improvising once things go south. - Story is as shallow as you would expect from such a game. But it doesn;t matter at all, Overally, it's a great shooter game. Enjoyable stealth, great performance. 8/10 would recommend to everyone who's into tactical stealth games.