Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts (PS4) (Spanish Version)

Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts serves up some excellent atmospheric sniping action across a range of environments. Playing as the central character you make your way through a number of multi-layered missions across a fairly wide map. Each mission comprises of a separate map containing 4-5 objectives and each objective can take you quite a while (around 30-45 mins) to complete. Each overall mission can take anywhere up to 3-4 hours to complete depending on how carefully you play and how many collectables you want to hunt for. The maps are complex, detailed and full of hide-aways, passages, open spaces, buildings, towers and cliff edges, all brilliant for setting up position, scouting enemy positions and taking aim. Vertical space as well as the horizontal is well catered for here.There is a story, of sorts, which portrays a fictitious Siberian country riddled with military nasties who need to be taken out. The story simply sets the scene, it’s slightly tongue-in-cheek but it doesn’t really matter as once you set off it’s all about you, your rifle, your tactical aids and your ability to plan a suitable strategy to get where you need to be to take out the targets.The thing I love about this game is that it sets you off at the start of a map/mission and says, ‘over to you.’ It really is up to you how you approach each mission and you can do objectives in any order you like. You can go low, high, east, west, north, south in any order, take everyone you come across out in turn or sneak past them if you prefer, take spot lights out to make the environment darker so you’re harder to see, lure an enemy away from his colleagues to check out a broken electrical system that you’ve just shot so you can shoot him without alarming the others, or if you’re up against it if the alarm does get triggered, go loud and swap your rifle for a machine gun and a few grenades or back off and choose a new route. Dead bodies can be picked up and hidden to avoid others detecting your presence after you’ve moved on. If the alarm is sounded the enemies go to high-alert they spend quite a while watching out for you using binoculars to search for you. AI is fairly decent and there is a good range of difficulty settings which dictates how quickly you’ll die if hit.The freedom you get to actually PLAY this game is quite simply excellent and is a real breath of fresh air from all those supposedly AAA titles that insist on taking the action out of your hands with follow me, do this now, do that now and here’s another cut scene every couple of minutes. Sniper Contracts entertains none of that nonsense, the only break in your control over the action is the kill-cam which triggers when you pull off a really nice shot showing you the path of your bullet in slow motion as it traces towards your target and thumping home in a satisfying manner. And who wouldn’t want to see that every time.The aiming process is very good and requires just a little practise to get right. A simple tutorial explains all you need to know and I soon found myself within an hour of starting the game setting elevation and adjusting for windage very easily, pulling off some very rewarding shots at distance across the first main mission. After a few more hours I was hardly missing. The system just takes understanding and little more skill than just point and shoot. I love it.Guns, tactical kit, skills and clothing can be upgraded or replaced with better models as you earn points throughout the game. I’ve read a few really negative reviews about this game and I don’t get it. I’ve played almost every sniper game there is (previous Elite and Ghost titles included) and this one is amongst the best. The game is great at what it does. It gives you freedom to explore and make your own decisions. For those who want to simply run and gun or need to be held by the hand during games, Sniper Contracts might be frustrating, but if you enjoy games that ask you to think, don’t let negative reviews put you off. Graphically the game is very good. Draw distance is nice, environments are detailed and varied, weather effects are very effective and lighting is very well done. Everything works very well. For perfectionists there is occasional minor judder as you swing around quickly but nothing game breaking at all. It’s at least as good as many AAA full-priced titles and better that quite a few of them. Sound is well handled and creates good atmosphere throughout.Save points may be a minor niggle for some. There is no manual save but I don’t agree with reviewers who complain about being sent back to do huge sections of missions again when they die. There are enough checkpoint auto saves across the maps to keep any decent gamer happy and I never had to re-do any more than a couple of minutes even when I was getting to grips with the game in some of the early challenging scenes and getting killed quite often. Players can leave the game after completing part missions (each objective triggers a save) and restart where they left off so, whilst it would be the cherry on the cake to have a manual save, the manner in which the game does handle saves doesn’t really present a problem.Overall a great game. Great fun, quite challenging and a pleasure to be handed a free reign to play as I want to play for a change without interruption from daft cut scenes and scripted paint-by-numbers gameplay that COD and other titles force upon you. Thumbs up from me!

Cliched clipped British accents, ridiculously complex controls and an 'easy' level which requires you to have some knowledge of windage and 'bullet drop'? Give this a wide berth.

This game is very interesting and there's a lot to do.However, it crashes very regularly and usually with a lot of progress lost. This is very frustrating.In addition to that, after a recent crash, the overall game progress shows that I had completed a couple of major tasks in my current contract but when I continue and pause, the game seems to think I haven't completed these major tasks.If I am honest, I think the game mainly crashes when I use a drone.....has anyone else found this?I should really send it back as flawed game but I do like a good snipe!!

Hmmm. It’s no COD. It’s no sniper elite. On the 1st level and so far I have given up. Feels slow controls. Can’t get into it. I should give it more time but hey COD is calling.

The graphics for the game play really good and the strategy is really something.As always the game arrived ahead of schedule, thank you to those that shipped it out.

One thing lets it down can’t save part wayThrough a level

Got a bit worried when i received the game, the game cover was all in french and game cover was damaged must have been stood on but the cd was English very poor condition it do not think i will be pre ordering any thing else in a hurry .

Looks like it would be a good game but I'm not a fan of the checkpoint method of saving progress, as you can complete quite a bit then die and have to start back a long way which can be annoying.