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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