The ghillie suits, environments (the oil rig in particular), menu screens, hidden intel collectibles and abundant use of phrases such as “stay frosty” are all straight out of the Modern Warfare handbook. To say that Ghost Warrior wears its inspiration on its sleeve would be a massive understatement. The characters driving the narrative are dull, forgettable and distressingly similar to the clichéd soldiers we’ve met in any run-of-the-mill war games from over the years. Underneath this generic military drivel there’s not much of a plot to speak of. This unit is sent to the fictional island of Isla Trueno, whose democratic government has been overthrown by a hostile force. The game pops you in the weather-beaten boots of Sergeant Tyler Wells, an elite sniper who’s part of a highly-trained special ops unit. Instead…well, just read on to find out what went wrong. It could have been – dare I say it – good. It requires patience and a one-shot-one-kill kind of attitude that you won’t find in other games. Ghost Warrior is quite refreshing in its digression from that template. The FPS genre is teeming with shoot-first-ask-questions-later kind of titles, games that involve squeezing the trigger the split-second an enemy appears behind the crosshair. It’s a shame to have to speak about the game with such venom because, despite its flaws, there’s a gap in the market that it fills quite nicely. Sniper is a technical holocaust: an interactive compilation of glitches, bugs and design errors haphazardly stitched together with long stretches of dull and broken gameplay. Sniper is one of a rare breed of games that has the ability to invoke such dizzying levels of frustration that suicide seems a less painful alternative to playing the game. After an hour or so with Sniper: Ghost Warrior, however, I had the most compelling urge to end it all, to throw myself face-first out of the nearest window.
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