Review: Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 (PlayStation 4)
Play as an American sniper dropped in Georgia, near Russian border. Choose your own path to accomplish your missions.
Pros:
- Decent graphics for the most part.
- 49.5GB Download size.
- Platinum trophy.
- PlayStation 4 Pro support.
- Three difficulties- Normal, Hard and challenge mode.
- Can invert sticks.
- Opening tutorial level.
- Uses DS4 speaker for radio chatter.
- Open world sniper game.
- Scout mode- Activate so you can see ledges/support etc.
- Can skip cutscenes.
- You have a safe house- Here is you hub where you can select missions/crafting/sleeping.
- Night/Day mechanic. You can sleep to change the time of day.
- Best distance kill pop up.
- Fast travel, Sign posts can be used as well as the safe house.
- 26 missions with around 16 optional side missions.
- Full stats screen.
- Weapons cache-Here you can modify/upgrade and buy weapon parts. In depth gun customisation.
- Workbench-Craft gadgets/ammo and equipment.
- Laptop-Choose missions/check stats/bios.
- Loot bodies for resources.
- Different bullet types like explosive or armour piercing.
- Sniper come FPS shooter gameplay.
- In depth sniper control. You can tweak all the knobs and buttons for distance etc.
- Earn EXP, Level up and unlock new skills.
- Three skill trees that unlock particular abilities.
- Drone for marking enemies.
- Shots affected by elevation and wind.
- Kill cam slow mo can trigger, They are basically the same as what you get in the Sniper Elite series.
- You can attack any mission how ever you like, Thanks to the open world you can set up your shot how you like which rally makes a difference.
- Vehicles-You can drive vehicles around the map.
- The world is populated so you can go out and kill enemies and take over bases without selecting a main mission.
- Hidden collectibles.
Cons:
- Really really long loading screens.
- Frame drops.
- Screen tearing.
- Some wooden animations.
- The interaction between characters are not great and dont have any real emotion.
- Colours looked a bit washed out.
- Very generic obvious story line.
The Numbers:
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8/10
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7/10
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7/10
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7/10
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7/10
Summary
The first thing you will experience here are the ridiculously long loading times, The song they have playing actually ends and then loops back round before any game can be played. It sets you up all wrong as once you get in game, It is a lot fo fun. The open world is a bold move but feels like a necessary move in the sniper genre. Driving and climbing around the world is a great adventure. The actual sniping is tight and accurate, You can fine tune every part of your setup and really get a lot out of it. If you can let the loading times and boring story go then for a sniping game its excellent.