Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts

Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts é um bom recomeço da franquia. Digo isso porque eu gosto ela desde primeiro, o PÉSSIMO Sniper Ghost Warrior, lançado em 2010 quando a Ci Games ainda se chamava City Software. Nele, você é o "Seeker" (ou "Caçador"), e seu cliente é líder de uma organização global que "se preocupa com o equilíbrio de poder em algumas regiões do mundo". As missões acontecem na República da Sibéria, país ficcional que se formou depois da Guerra Civil Russa. Seu objetivo é eliminar o seu presidente, Nerguy Kurchakov e toda sua rede de apoio, que vai desde líderes do sindicato do crime na Rússia, até cientistas que criam armas de destruição em massa e experimentos eugenistas (é isso mesmo que vocês estão pensando, aquela parada lá que aconteceu na Alemanha entre a década de 30 e 40) com o objetivo de criar uma população de pessoas livres de doenças e "perfeitas", e um exército de super soldados. Apresenta algumas falhinhas um pouco irritantes, como movimentação pelo terreno, mas nada que comprometa a jogatina. É um jogo curto, com missões relativamente rápidas, então se zera ele com três ou quatro horas de jogo. Roda em PC de batata, não exige um equipamento robusto para rodar. NOTA 7.5/10

I see myself as an elite sniper… until the wind decides otherwise . I love planning my perfect shots, even if it sometimes ends in a completely improvised escape . It’s beautiful, demanding, and above all, it reminds me that gravity always wins .

여타 이전 작품들과는 다르게 주인공이 용병으로 시작함. 배경은 러시아와 시베리아 관련 갈등으로 시작됨. 이전작들과는 다르게 히트맨 계열인 암살 게임류로 바뀌어서 저격총으로 '학살'이 아닌, 저격총으로 적들 눈에 덜 띄게끔 '암살'하는 게임으로 장르가 바뀐 느낌이다. 전작보단 오픈월드 맵 퀄리티는 상당히 올라갔지만.. AI는 여전히 병신같음. 그래도 뭐 세일할때 사면 나쁘지않게 할만한 정도?

不错，但是玩着玩着，一旦发现我就想原地回档。不知道是不是病。

Нельзя нассать на снегу литеру Z.

Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts is proof that more isn't necessarily better. This game gives the player 5 handcrafted missions, plus a training ground. The maps are open, so you decide how you go about completing your objectives. The game-play is solid and the perfect shot rewarding. The only downside I've seen in the negative reviews worth mentioning is not being able to save when you like, i.e. we've been given an auto-save. A little annoying, but it doesn't ruin the game. An easy 4/5

[h1]Противоречивая игра с хорошей базой[/h1] У игры есть сильные стороны, и это стоит признать. [b]Визуально она выглядит достойно[/b]: проработанные локации, хорошая детализация, разнообразие карт. Оружие и гаджеты дают ощущение вариативности, кастомизация реализована удобно. Обучение понятное, подсказки и комментарии по ходу миссий уместны. Если вам нравится [i]тактический стелс[/i], выверенное планирование и методичное прохождение — в теории игра может зайти. [hr][/hr] [h2]Проблемы, которые всё портят[/h2] Но на практике весь этот потенциал сильно портится техническим состоянием и поведением ИИ. [b]Основная проблема — баги.[/b] Регулярно возникают ситуации, когда выстрелы не засчитываются или механики работают некорректно. Отдельно стоит отметить [b]искусственный интеллект[/b]: он либо откровенно «слепой» и не реагирует на происходящее рядом, либо ведёт себя нелогично. Иногда достаточно одного действия, чтобы противники уже точно знали ваше местоположение, даже если это не имеет никакого смысла. [hr][/hr] [h2]Стелс, который работает странно[/h2] Стелс как будто заявлен, но реализован противоречиво. [b]Без глушителя играть практически невозможно[/b] — любое действие моментально поднимает тревогу на всей карте. Инструменты отвлечения работают нестабильно: устройства могут привлечь одного противника вместо группы или не сработать так, как ожидается. В итоге проще полагаться на [i]примитивные способы[/i], чем на продуманные механики. [hr][/hr] [h2]Дополнительные проблемы[/h2] — Странная система спавна: враги могут появляться заново в уже зачищенных местах. — Турели и элементы окружения ведут себя непредсказуемо. [hr][/hr] [h2]Испытания и сохранения[/h2] [b]Испытания — отдельная проблема.[/b] Многие из них противоречат друг другу и требуют многократного перепрохождения миссий. При этом отсутствие удобной системы сохранений и баги с чекпоинтами приводят к потере прогресса. [i]Это не усложняет игру — это просто растягивает время.[/i] [hr][/hr] [h2]Итог[/h2] В итоге складывается противоречивое впечатление. У игры есть хорошие идеи и крепкая база, но из-за технических проблем и нестабильной работы ключевых механик удовольствие от прохождения быстро сменяется раздражением. Рекомендовать можно разве что тем, кто готов мириться с такими недостатками ради самого концепта.

An older but fantastic sniping game. The Contracts version are better than the originals. It does away with all the pointless driving and moving bases.

Sniper Ghost Warrior: Contracts could have been a good title, but it is completely ruined by some major, unacceptable flaws. The good sides are first of all the detailed graphics and the locations of the missions which are open-world and give you the freedom to approach the missions as you prefer. This game wants to be a sniping simulation so the shooting is more refined and complex then in other sniper titles like Sniper Elite ( although in Sniper Elite its way more fun ). When you shoot, you have to keep in mind various parameters like the wind, distance, recoil etc.....which gives you a feeling of realism. The soundtrack is average, the story also. In this story Siberia is an independent country run by some dictator that has lots of mob and other criminal connections. The missions are mostly about eliminating the leadership of Siberia, stealing secret documents and various acts of sabotage. Doing missions is mostly entertaining but also incredibly frustrating for the reasons given below. The cutscenes are good. The game is in my opinion ruined by the fact that it doesn't have manual save game. Instead it adopts a completely obnoxious auto-save system. The biggest problem is that it basically saves only when you are not in combat or when you are not spotted ( when in stealth ). Sniper GW Contracts is a pretty challenging game on the normal difficulty. The enemies are mostly grouped together in large chunks, so when you start engaging them or as soon as they spot you, you cannot save until you liquidate them all. So for example you come to a location with perhaps 20 or 30 enemies.....and you concentrate and try hard for a long time....you eliminate 18 of them...but the 20'th enemy kills you....and bang...you have to do all over again. It was very frustrating, because in this game you have to move and advance very slowly and carefully, while crouching and proning.....and it takes a long time to kill enemies....and then you get killed and you lose for example 1 hour for nothing. So for each location full of enemies you will have to re-try many many times, and each mission has like 4,5 or 6 such zones! I don't like games that are disrespectful towards people's time. This game could be 10x better with manual save. Some people have told the developers this but developers doesn't seem to get it, and they even responded to a negative review telling that "the lack of manual save is not a strong enough reason to leave a negative review" - which also tells you something about the arrogance of it's developers. There is only 5 open-world zones. So the game it's actually short, so they went for the check point system in order to force the gamers to try and re-try the zones many times over, in order for the game to feel longer! It's a cheap strategy. The cheap strategy is evident also in the following facts: in each open-world zone in addition to 5-6 contracts/missions, you have pretty hard challenges that often contradict one another. For example: - finish all the contracts by killing only the main target and - kill 10 enemies with gas mine. So in order to complete all the challenges they force you to re-play each zone many times! You have 2 additional bounties in each zone but they give you only 1 per playthrough!! For the other you have to play again. It's ridiculous. The game has lots of weapons and gadgets, but they didn't explain some of the gadgets well IMO, I ended up using only a few of them ( knives, grenades, and health pack ), the others were too complicated (drones, turret, bouncing betty, decoy traps, warning devices). The mines were not very useful. You can buy lots of weapons but I didn't feel much difference when I bought a better Sniper, Rifle or Gun. The enemies sometimes had better gear! ( especially the heavy rifle carried by armored enemies ). There is a skill upgrade system with lots of skills to upgrade, but it is ruined by the fact that the best skills can be bought not only using money, but you have to spend tokens! And tokens can be obtained only by completely the very hard ( and not very practical ) challenges! This is a very silly skill upgrade system. I managed to complete every contract/mission but only like 30% of the challenges. On the site TrueAchievements you can clearly see that only 22% of the players managed to beat the game, which tells you a lot about the difficulty to complete the game in this conditions. I'm among those 22% but so many re-tries where needed and shouting aloud. Also the game has lots of bugs: sometime it crashes ( it happened to me after killing 20 enemies and BAM, you have to re-do all again, you can get stuck in terrain (re-load time!), some times the enemy snipers are invisible or underwater, sometimes the enemies fly around bugged.