
- 70/100
- Players35 ratings
- 67/100
- Critics3 reviews
More scores
- Metacritic27 critic reviews
- 71/100
- Metacritic usersuser score
- 66/100
- GameFAQsJust Right
- 2.33/5
- Player reviews
- 73% positive11,056 reviews
- Steam Deck
- Verified
- Runs on
- Windows
- Price
- US$29.99
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2019 · CI Games S.A. · First-person shooter · Shooter
Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts
Experience the ultimate sniper gameplay, set against the rough terrain of the Siberian wilderness and featuring a brand new contracts system that encourages strategic thinking across engaging, replayable missions.
- Released
- 22 November 2019
- Platforms
- PlayStation 4WindowsXbox OneXbox Series X/S
- Genres
- First-person shooterShooter
- Developers
- CI Games S.A.
- Publishers
- CI Games S.A.
- Modes
- Single-player
- Perspective
- First person
- Themes
- Action
- Engine
- CryEngine 3
- Country
- Poland
- Age ratings
- ACB MA 15+USK 18CERO ZGRAC 19+ESRB MPEGI 18
- Languages
- Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian and 1 more
- Time to beat
- 12hmain story26hcompletionist
About
Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts is a tactical shooter stealth video game developed and published by CI Games. It is the fifth entry of the Sniper: Ghost Warrior series and the sequel to Sniper Ghost Warrior 3. The game was released worldwide on 22 November 2019 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It received fairly positive reviews from critics, with some reviewers calling it an improvement over its predecessors. A sequel titled Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 was released in 2021.
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The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
Unlike its predecessor Sniper Ghost Warrior 3, Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts uses mission-based gameplay, instead of focusing on open world format. The game offers five sizable maps, allowing players to complete a total of 25 missions with open-ended contracts.
The game features a skill tree, redesigned from Sniper Ghost Warrior 3, that contains four tiers, which can be unlocked tier-by-tier by spending money. It features new "contract tokens", that come from main objectives, "challenge tokens" that can be acquired by accomplishing extra challenges, and "intel tokens" are collectables or bounties, with all of them being a must in getting access to higher tier skills and great damage weapons and loadouts.
Story
Siberia has claimed its independence after a war with Russia and Mongolia. Nergui Kurchatov, Siberia's prime minister, is skeptical of the people's hope for a fair distribution of wealth, and soon becomes an autocratic ruler. In the face of corruption and abuse of power of the new government, an armed opposition is established, called the Siberian Wolves.
A sniper mercenary, codenamed "Seeker", is sent on a series of dangerous missions by a mysterious sponsor codenamed "Handler", who is contracted to progressively eliminate members of Siberia's elite: General Dimitri Ivanovski; the CEO of an oil company, Igor Sekhov, and his wife Olga Kurchatova (sister of Nergui Kurchatov). Also included are a duo of crime lords: Sasha Petroshenko of the Yakutz clan, and Agvan Dorgev of West Siberian Syndicate; as well as a scientist seeking to genetically modify the Siberian people, Anatashia Elikanova, and her father, Zelik Elikanov, and finally Nergui Kurchatov himself as the last contract.
Development
Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts is developed by CI Games, which is the developer of the Sniper: Ghost Warrior series. It focuses on several smaller sandboxes instead of an open world map, after the CEO of CI Games Marek Tymiński admitted "big mistake" in chasing AAA with Sniper Ghost Warrior 3. The game was announced in August 2018, and received its first gameplay during E3 2019.
Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts uses the CryEngine video game engine by Crytek, which is the same engine of Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 and Sniper Ghost Warrior 3.
Reception
Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.
David Jagneaux of IGN rated the game 7.3/10, praising the game's atmosphere and the number of gadgets available to use, but felt the size of the maps hindered the player. Daniel Weissenberger of GameCritics.com wrote the game "gets so much right" but thought its most notable flaw was the limited use of gadgets such as the mask and drone.
Releases by platformdates and regions as published
Editions and related releases
- Included in
- Sniper Ghost Warrior Unlimited EditionSniper Ghost Warrior Contracts & Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3: Unlimited EditionSniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 1 & 2 Double Pack
- Followed by
- Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2
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