Alternate objectives like hacking enemy equipment or freeing captives add to your rewards and take home money, as well. This adds to the replay value in that you can redo missions and go about them a different way, perhaps choosing to go more close range assault than long range sniping for example. With no funds available to start with you will get to see and read about a lot of cool upgrades that you cannot yet afford, but there is an extensive list of goodies available to you as you clear missions, keeping in mind that completing secondary and challenge objectives within missions nets you even more money to spend on goods. Once you’ve cleared the tutorial and chosen your difficulty for the first mission, you’re taken to the loadout screen. There’s also a good tutorial to get you started that covers everything from tagging enemies with your binoculars to learning all about the sniping, to using some of your tools that you can purchase and upgrade as you work your way through the campaign. Each difficulty setting is clearly explained in as far as what the player becomes responsible for and what, if any, aids are enabled. I liked that I could choose my difficult at the start of every mission as well. My preference is somewhere in the middle, so for SGWC2’s difficult setting I went with the second out of four increasingly-challenging options. With any sniping game, you’ll have purists that demand as much sim as possible and other players that simply want to line up the crosshairs and pull the trigger, with no accounting for bullet drop, wind, breathing, or anything else that might get in the way of a long range shot. Last year I reviewed the original SGWC and it was okay, but something about SGWC2 just felt better from the start. Armed with a futuristic helmet, trusty sniper rifles with various sci-fi bullets, and an arsenal of cool equipment like drones and auto-sniping turrets that feel like they’re right out of Q’s laboratory, there’s practically no mission that Raven can’t handle. In this awkwardly titled sequel, players again resume the role of Raven, an expert marksman and all around military warrior called in by a secretive organization to carry out contracts that see rogue or otherwise problematic governments and entities toppled. Take the fight to the Middle East in Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 ( SGWC2).
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