Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts

perfect

Super jeu solo d'infiltration comme on les aime, à mie chemin entre 007 et Hitman

Great game, the SGW series returns with Contracts, which feels like a breath of fresh air after the third game. Instead of the open world, this time we're given 5 large maps, each with a set of missions to accomplish and optional challenges as well. This allows the game to be more focused while also providing a lot of freedom on how to tackle these missions, you can do it using stealth or going loud, it is entirely up to the player. The game also contains a lot of different gadgets and weapons which expand the ways in which the missions can be completed. The player is not, at any point in the game, forced to do anything in a specific manner, and this is something that I really appreciate. Now, we should talk negatives, the game obviously isn't perfect, the AI sometimes displayed an inability to engage the player properly, they either rush you relentlessly, which is a deathwish when being shot at by a sniper, or just wander around aimlessly after most of the friendlies have been taken out. Secondly, it's easy for the player to get stuck on uneven terrain, for example: the last level has a lot of train tracks and pasing through these while crouching was a bit frustrating. There are also quite a few visual glitches. Still, I had A LOT of fun playing this game. Like Contracts 2, this is entirely focused on entertainning the player, its a video game through and through, doesnt take itself too seriously and when you noticed the jank here and there, it ends up being more endearing than distracting. On a personal note, and this is just a my own rant rather than part of the review so feel free to skip this, I played this after quitting Battlefield 4 halfway through. I am not a multiplayer guy, so there's that, I know that the majority of players go straight to the online battles and ignore the campaing but I'm not one of those, I do enjoy a good SP mode and apart from Quake I really don't care about FPS multiplayer modes. So when playing BF4 I noticed an insane amount of game breaking bugs, and after some time I was more focused on that aspect rather than enjoying what was a perfectly servicable campaign, and the frustration of being insta killed by debris or falling through the game world just killed any enjoyiment I could have had with the game. I didn't get that with Contracts, there are glitches, sure, but they were just visual and didn't break the game, I didn't have a single crash, and never had to replay a mission because the objective mysteriously despawned rom the map. What I'm trying to say is, CI Games has nowehere near the budget of EA and yet can release a product that is far more stable AND playable in SP mode, which makes it far superior as well. Rant over 7/10