Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 Review (PS5)

Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 (PS5)

Release: January 1, 1970
Publisher: Ci Games
Developer: Ci Games
Genre: PS5 Reviews
PEGI: M
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Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 marks the most challenging entry to the acclaimed series yet, introducing extreme long-range sniping with targets over 1000m away. Featuring a dramatic single-player campaign set in the modern-day Middle East, experience high-pressure tactical combat, deep inside enemy territory.

Take on the role of Raven, Contract Sniper Assassin, as he embarks on a new series of contracts in a lawless region of the Middle East, located along the Lebanese and Syrian borders. Tasked with a seemingly impossible task, your mission is to topple an insidious criminal syndicate and bring them to justice. Your target is Bibi Rashida, Kumar’s de-facto head of state after the president, her husband, was assassinated by a neighboring country. Rashida’s planned military response threatens to destabilize the region, inflating oil prices and crippling Western economies. Your job is to undermine the regime by taking out Rashida’s cronies, which includes rogue hackers and disgraced SAS soldiers, before eliminating Rashida herself.

The game is spread across five different missions, but these are not short at all, many of the missions have 4 or more separate objectives to achieve across the sprawling map area you are on. There are a lot of ground to cover and areas to snipe your targets from. But this is far from your standard snipe target move on. Each area is almost like a puzzle, oh your target is in a building. Ok, find a control panel to cut off power to the building so they come out. Oh but don’t alert anyone, and try and make that shot from over a kilometer away. It’s definitely not your Call of Duty run and gun affair you need to think at every move, calculate every shot for wind, drop distance, zoom, etc. Sometimes they are so far away you shoot and have to wait 5 seconds for it to hit (or miss) your target. On a kill shot, you are sometimes treated to a bullet cam view of the action in slow-mo in all of its gore gloriousness. You have a bunch of weapons, gadgets, and upgrades at your disposal including your state of the art visor to survey the landscape, thermal and more, you have drones to use, sniper turrets so you can set up shots to go off at the same time as you shoot, or put in overwatch mode to detect enemy movement.

The game’s visuals are actually quite stunning on the PS5 as are the voice-over work and sound effects. Each high-powered shot booms through my headphones and echoes throughout the desert. Your briefing cut scenes explaining each mission are also really well done and definitely give the game a bit of a wow factor. PS5 also benefits from some upgrades over the other versions of the game including:

• IMPROVED GRAPHICSUpgraded textures and visuals deliver an even more immersive experience
• 4K RESOLUTIONAbility to play in either Visual Mode (4k, 30fps) or Performance Mode (2k, 60fps)
• ADAPTIVE TRIGGERSDualsense adaptive triggers provide each weapon it’s own distinct feeling
• HAPTIC FEEDBACKFeel every bullet like never before with next-gen Haptic Feedback
• FASTER LOAD TIMESExperience improved SSD loading times to get back into the action quicker than ever

So if you are in for a thinking man’s military ops type game. I strongly recommend checking out Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2, it’s definitely worth your time.