Maybe you’d rather go and explore, finding points of interest that exist in the world? How do you want to get to the areas? You can drive, and there is usually a car at your disposal, you can fast travel to various places around the zones, which also drops your car at the fast travel point, or you can obviously jog. The open world layout is another distinction between this game and the Elite series, as it leaves it up to you to choose the mission you want to undertake. Driving through the zones is good fun, with winding mountain roads to explore and wildlife to run over (it’s much safer to kill a wolf with a car than it is to try and shoot them). Graphically, the world is very pretty to look at, with different and distinct landscapes and wildlife across the zones that you get to visit. But there’s no sense that any of the cast phoned in their performances, the way that certain people have been guilty of… *cough* Peter Dinklage *cough*. However, that being said, the voice acting and delivery of the lines is top notch, if a little heavy on the “gung ho” spectrum. The great storytellers of the world can probably rest easy, secure in the knowledge that they aren’t about to be usurped by the writers of this title. At least she dresses sensibly, complete with body armour, unlike Raquel, a Mossad agent you’ll meet later on! It seems unfair to say that the storytelling is clumsy, but there is a certain naivety about the way that Jon interacts with other people, particularly the character of Lidia, with whom you had a previous relationship. There is another thread to the narrative too the story of the lost brother and where he may be.
It is in these little ways, that the game speaks to you.Īt the end of the tutorial, Jon’s brother is gone, and the story opens as you arrive in Georgia to try and quell a Separatist uprising.
Little touches like this bring home to you, as the player, the kind of world the game is trying to create. An early example of this in the first post prologue mission enables you to find drag marks on the ground, and then follow them back to the brutalised body of a young woman, lying in the bushes. The Sense skill, or whatever it is that allows snipers to know exactly where enemies are has other uses too highlighting collectibles in the landscape, showing you areas where you can climb, and even allowing you to track animals and people to new rewards. Once an enemy is tagged, using the “sense” mode, it allows you to track wherever they go. If nothing else, buzzing about the place as a drone, tagging enemies hither and yon is great fun, and the flying controls are very precise, letting you jink in and out of buildings and ruins to get an idea of what’s ahead. This is a game set in the modern time, with the perks and gadgets that this time setting brings. This is one area where arguably Ghost Warrior could open up some distance between itself and the Sniper Elite series.
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