Sniper Ghost Warrior 3
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- April 25, 2017
- CI Games
- Shooter
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Sniper Ghost Warrior 3
- April 25, 2017
- Shooter
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GameCentral (Metro GameCentral)
3/10
“The open world environment and role-playing elements are trying to elevate the game above its rickety predecessors, but on both a technical and design level this sequel is way off target.”
Jake Tucker (Eurogamer)
Not Recommended
“Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 is a great sniping game let down by a mediocre open world, poor voice acting, technical hitches and terrible writing.”
Richard Wakeling (GameSpot)
5/10
“A newfound focus on player choice pushes CI Games’ series in a positive direction, but myriad issues keep it from being a top marksman.”
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| Outlet | Author | Score | Date | Quote | Read |
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| ACG | Jeremy Penter | Not Recommended | 04-24-2017 | Video Review | Read review |
| Atomix | Alberto Desfassiaux | 58 / 100 | 05-02-2017 | Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 is a pretty generic FPS with a boring and empty open world setting. | Read review |
| Attack of the Fanboy | Mike Guarino | 2.5 / 5 stars | 04-24-2017 | Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 has a decent foundation for a good game, but its many technical issues bring the experience down significantly. | Read review |
| CGMagazine | Lane Martin | 5 / 10 | 05-03-2017 | Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 is good at sniping, but is hampered by needless open world mechanics and poor design choices. | Read review |
| Chalgyr’s Game Room | Robert Risdon | 6.3 / 10 | 05-03-2017 | While the Sniper: Ghost Warrior games are in no need of an introduction, I myself am new to the Ghost Warrior line of Sniper titles and was a bit unsure of what to expect when going into CI Games’ Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3. From the developers of the criminally under-appreciated Lords of the Fallen, Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 takes the previously-linear tactical snipe-fest and opens the franchise up. Though enjoyable, the open-world aspects of Ghost Warrior 3 do tend to pull away a bit from what it is that it does best, and that is sniper rifle-filled tomfoolery. Half-hearted open world shenanigans aside, Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 an excellent tactical sniping title set in a beautiful world that tends to get in the way of itself. | Read review |
| COGconnected | Ahmed Mohamed | 75 / 100 | 04-24-2017 | The production value isn’t as high as I’d hoped, but the game knows what it is and every mechanic and feature works together in tandem. | Read review |
| Critical Hit | Darryn Bonthuys | 5 / 10 | 05-23-2017 | Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 should have been a better game. Disassembled, it had all the parts needed to give the thrill of the one-shot one-kill calibre that it deserves. The assembled game however, completely misses its target as it comes off as a mismanaged product that fails to deliver on its promises. | Read review |
| Cubed3 | Gabriel Jones | 4 / 10 | 05-01-2017 | Despite still being mired with an unhealthy assortment of technical hiccups and a paper thin narrative that feels like a rejected Call of Duty plot line, there is still fun to be mined out of Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 but it’s entirely dependent on an individual’s tolerance of the occasional glitch. | Read review |
| Cultured Vultures | Nicholas Monahan | 5 / 10 | 05-02-2017 | Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 is a mediocre shooter, elevated only by its smooth shooting controls and let down by its lackluster gameplay, boring open world, terrible writing, frequent crashes, bugs and performance issues. If you’re a tactical shooter junkie like me there’s some substance here, but there’s better, more stable products out there that will respect your time a helluva lot more. | Read review |
| Destructoid | Raymond Porreca | 3 / 10 | 05-09-2017 | The view from a sniper’s scope has the potential to tell a compelling and meditative story about the nature of armed conflict without the boom and bravado of video game warfare. It can also magnify issues and expose glaring flaws. In the case of Sniper Ghost Warrior 3, the later is true. It’s a sloppy, uninspired game at its best. At its worst, it’s — to quote Jonathan North — “one fucking long exercise in triage.” | Read review |
| Digiato | Nima Farshin | 40 / 100 | 05-02-2017 | Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 is one of the worst games in this generation and it fails in many aspects. The game has weak graphic, nonsense open world map and repetitive gameplay. But if you love sniping games, it can entertain you for a few hours. | Read review |
| Digital Chumps | Steven McGehee | 6.8 / 10 | 01-30-2017 | Other than the technical issues, SGW3 is probably exactly what you expected and even hoped for — a AA modern military shooter with a focus on sniping that evolves the franchise into open world. If you can wait for additional patching or don’t mind some of the stout bugs, SGW3 offers an enjoyable experience. | Read review |
| DualShockers | Logan Moore | 3.5 / 10 | 04-30-2017 | Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 is filled with unforgivable load times, piss poor visuals, and gunplay that is better in nearly every other military shooter. From top to bottom, it’s an uninspired and technical mess. Many of Sniper Ghost Warrior 3’s issues could have been looked over maybe five years ago, but not in 2017. It’s a game that is almost certainly undeserving of your time and even more undeserving of your money. Dodge this bullet and go play almost any other first person shooter from this console era. I can guarantee you that you’ll have a better time. | Read review |
| Eurogamer | Jake Tucker | Not Recommended | 04-25-2017 | Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 is a great sniping game let down by a mediocre open world, poor voice acting, technical hitches and terrible writing. | Read review |
| Game Rant | Denny Connolly | 3 / 5 stars | 04-26-2017 | Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 attempts to bring the military first-person shooter franchise into AAA territory with an open-world setting and a bigger budget. | Read review |
| Game Volt | Mohamed Ashmawy | 5 / 10 | 05-08-2017 | Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 is the most title in this generations that lack creativity , there is no identity and it packs real issues at every inch of it, the game has neglected a lot of elements essential for an open and uninviting world, and it was only useful for an aesthetic view, the studio had to focus on presenting a good story and distinctive gameplay elements rather than wasting time in an open world. | Read review |
| Gameblog | Camille Allard | 6 / 10 | 04-28-2017 | Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 can be an enjoyable FPS game, but unfortunately the very good shooting sensations are not enough to forget all the flaws, AI problems and glitches of the game. | Read review |
| Gamefa | Saeed Aghababaie | 7.2 / 10 | 04-30-2017 | We can easily say that Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 is the best entry in this franchise yet. New gameplay mechanics, more action elements, nice level design and open world, add satisfying variability to the game and stop it from turns boring. But also the game has still some problems like terribly long loading times or graphical issues. Finally, we must say that Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 is absolutely worth playing and in higher difficulty levels, is a very good simulator to use a high caliber sniper rifle. | Read review |
| GameGrin | Marcello Perricone | 4.5 / 10 | 05-17-2017 | Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 is a serviceable open-world first person shooter with some great sniping mechanics, yet it’s low production values and lack of polish completely ruin what could be a very enjoyable experience. | Read review |
| GameMAG | xtr | 5 / 10 | 06-01-2017 | Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 is a failed attempt to make a clone of Far Cry with a focus on sniper battles. The game was drowned in bugs, stupid plot, superfluous mechanics and boring gameplay. | Read review |
| GamePro | Tobias Veltin | 65 / 100 | 04-26-2017 | In its core, Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 is a solid Shooter, that suffers from technical problems and a bunch of other blemishes. | Read review |
| Gamerheadquarters | Jason Stettner | 7.2 / 10 | 05-04-2017 | Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 was solid, I had issues with it but the game was generally fine. | Read review |
| GameSpew | Sean Mesler | 6 / 10 | 05-05-2017 | By the end of my time with Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3, I was left very much disappointed. Not because of the poor story and acting, but because of the technical issues that kept the game from being anything more than mediocre. It’s a shame too; it’s a good – if not amazing – looking game, with some really fun mechanics. | Read review |
| GameSpot | Richard Wakeling | 5 / 10 | 04-25-2017 | A newfound focus on player choice pushes CI Games’ series in a positive direction, but myriad issues keep it from being a top marksman. | Read review |
| GameZone | Daniel R. Miller | 5 / 10 | 05-01-2017 | When it works, Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 has its moments where it completely engrosses you. But it’s not long before it violently and literally shoves you out because of poor optimization, heavy frame stuttering, audio sync issues, and crashes. This game wa | Read review |
| Gaming Nexus | Rob Larkin | 6.5 / 10 | 05-25-2017 | Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 is a game that just wasn’t ready to be released. I believe there is a near future when you’re going to find this one in the bargain bin or on a deep discount in a digital sale, after the numerous bugs have been patched and that multiplayer is added in, and then there will be an opportunity to enjoy a solid experience. This is not a AAA FPS but it does deliver some good moments when it works, has very good gameplay mechanics working for it, finds that balance between open world and engaging set pieces, and is presented through an interesting environment. However, the single player plot remains atrocious, there is no multiplayer, and in it’s current beta state it’s just not yet worth it. | Read review |
| GamingBolt | Aaron Main | 6 / 10 | 04-25-2017 | Overall, Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 has some awesome features for customizing and building up your weapons, a wide open world where going about the mission is up to you, and a fun drone to pilot around, but the bland story, bugs and glitches, and lazy design choices make this game nothing special. | Read review |
| GamingTrend | Mike Pearce | 80 / 100 | 05-05-2017 | A slick sniping title in name, but one that also encourages creativity, delivers action, and demands adaptation, Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 is one hell of a ride. Although it has a lackluster story and a handful of minor issues, it’s still an immensely enjoyable separatist kill fest set in the gorgeous open-world landscapes of former Soviet Georgia. | Read review |
| GBAtemp | Alex McAuliffe | 4.5 / 10 | 06-27-2017 | Developer CI Games attempted to fix many issues of SGW3’s predecessors in ways which ultimately confuse and distract the core experience of the game. A barren open world, glitches and long loading times, and needless hand-holding through forced playstyles ruin what fun is to be found in the well-executed core element of the game: sniping. | Read review |
| GearNuke | Ali Moin | 6 / 10 | 05-14-2017 | Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 aims to be the first game in the series to be developed with AAA production values, however it is clear after playing the game that despite a bigger budget, the game carries some glaring flaws and technical issues that don’t make it deserving of its budget. | Read review |
| God is a Geek | Mick Fraser | 7 / 10 | 04-25-2017 | A solid effort from CI Games, Ghost Warrior 3 is a series-best, but hamstrung by long load times and a dull story. | Read review |
| Hardcore Gamer | Jordan Helm | 2.5 / 5 stars | 04-24-2017 | For all the temporal distractions, the near-mandatory attitude and dictation its open-World formula ends up presenting may end up dealing a blow to Sniper Ghost Warrior 3‘s small and hidden joys of explorative distraction. | Read review |
| Hobby Consolas | David Martinez | 70 / 100 | 04-25-2017 | Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 could have been a great war sandbox, in which you enjoy every step of your attacks: planning, studying your enemy and specially taking the shots. But it´s many technical failures spoil the experience. | Read review |
| IGN | Caley Roark | 5.5 / 10 | 04-27-2017 | Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 is by no means a great game, though its value is raised by short and varied missions, fun action elements, and an ability to make me feel like a legit action hero. Regardless of how much it borrows from other games, I can’t deny that I had a good time blowing through missions and enemy troops. However, the poor graphics and technical issues like long loading times and crashes occasionally ruined the fun. And, minus any sort of multiplayer, there’s not a lot of reason to go back. | Read review |
| IGN Italy | Francesco Destri | 7.9 / 10 | 04-27-2017 | Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 is not realistic like ARMA III, but if you’re looking for a first-person shooter with a tactical soul and an open-world setting, you’ll be satisfied. | Read review |
| IGN Middle East | Zia Murad | 5.5 / 10 | 04-30-2017 | I have to admit that Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 has some standout moments, particularly during the main campaign. Had CI Games focused on these moments instead of presenting a dull and empty open world to traverse around (rather quickly), they might have been able to deliver a stellar sniping game. During its best moments, you can’t deny the sense of overwhelming satisfaction you get when you successfully sneak around the map without getting caught, and the thrill of taking out your target after that. However, that’s all the enjoyment you’re going to get from a game that’s breaking under the weight of its own ambition. | Read review |
| IGN Spain | Juan García | 6.7 / 10 | 04-26-2017 | A game that was trying to reach an AAA level, but fails on delivering it due its own faults: being too repetitive, having a dumb AI, not having any multiplayer option… It’s fun for a while, but that’s it. | Read review |
| Impulsegamer | Tory Favro | Recommended | 05-03-2017 | Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 is one of those titles that will absolutely appeal to those who love their sniper games. Attention to detail in that regard is on point and a pleasure to play. For those who want to get out and around the actual world, you might find that it gets a bit dull after time. | Read review |
| Leadergamer | Kaan Gezer | 6 / 10 | 04-26-2017 | Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 is one of the best games of its type but in general, Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 is looking like poorly made, low/medium budget game. | Read review |
| LevelUp | Guillermo Navarrete | 6.5 / 10 | 04-29-2017 | Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 is a compendium of poorly executed good intentions, and although it could teach a few things to AAA developers in terms of design and variety of levels, lack of quality in key aspects of development plays against it. | Read review |
| Metro GameCentral | GameCentral | 3 / 10 | 04-26-2017 | The open world environment and role-playing elements are trying to elevate the game above its rickety predecessors, but on both a technical and design level this sequel is way off target. | Read review |
| New Game Network | Alex Varankou | 57 / 100 | 05-04-2017 | Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 attempts to push the franchise forward by introducing new mechanics and an open world, but the delivery falls flat. With an underwhelming story and plenty of bugs, the result is a game stuck in mediocrity. | Read review |
| Nexus | Hylton Goodwin | 6.5 / 10 | 05-09-2017 | Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 is not a bad game, but it does feel like a big budget, B-tier game that has unfortunately been released a bit too early. With an ambitious open-world combined with rewarding sniping, it’s easy to pick up and play. But for those seeking a deeper, more refined experience you may need to look further afield as Sniper Ghost Warrior 3’s lackluster combat and bland world often leave you wanting something just a little bit more. | Read review |
| NZGamer | Brendan Kelly | 6.5 / 10 | 05-05-2017 | Doesn’t hit all the marks. Redeemed by varied missions and a wide world to explore. | Read review |
| Player2.net.au | Krystal Nikolaou | Recommended | 05-05-2017 | Overall, Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 isn’t a bad game at all. There’s definitely rewarding moments that come out of your own skills improving but it’s by no means a unique game in its class, often giving me flashback feelings of Sniper Elite or Ghost Recon: Wildlands. | Read review |
| PlayStation LifeStyle | Martin Patiño | 5.5 / 10 | 04-24-2017 | The Sniper: Ghost Warrior series has definitely come a long way since the original was released over half a decade ago. In spite the criticisms the series has received in the past, it’s been successful enough that CI Games was adequately confident to shift gears with Ghost Warrior 3 and take a huge risk. And while the developer was successful in improving some of the game’s elements including its core gameplay and open world, many of its other aspects, including its visuals and technical performance, failed to hit the mark. At its core, Ghost Warrior 3 is easily enjoyable but its issues just as easily breaks the experience. | Read review |
| PlayStation Universe | John-Paul Jones | 7 / 10 | 04-25-2017 | The best Sniper Ghost Warrior title to date, the third instalment in CI Games popular sharpshooter series gets enough right to finally elevate the series into the orbit of its peers. | Read review |
| Press Start | Brodie Gibbons | 5 / 10 | 05-08-2017 | Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 has to be partially excused for some of its shortcomings, given CI’s inexperience at producing larger scale, bigger budget games. It does have a pleasing core experience that is sadly let down by, more or less, every other facet of the game. Come for the poor load times, the dreadful writing and the painted-on, wooden expressions the game’s cast has, but stay for the sniping. Because the sniping is great. | Read review |
| pressakey.com | Jari Wieschmann | Not Recommended | 05-31-2017 | Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 kann trotz einer robusten Sniper-Mechanik und eines interessanten Drohnen-Features aufgrund von technischen Mängeln nicht überzeugen. | Read review |
| PSX Brasil | Bruno Ricardo Gessner | 40 / 100 | 04-29-2017 | Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 is not necessarily a bad game. The shooting and platforming mechanics are good. But performance issues, such as bugs that make distant enemies simply vanish, the unreliable and totally corruptible checkpoints and save systems, plus ridiculously long loading screens, along with shallow story and characters with no charisma at all, make Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 a suffering experience. | Read review |
| Push Square | Dan Thompson | 4 / 10 | 04-25-2017 | During an opening splash screen, an ethereal voiceover tells you that Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 was “Achieved with Cry-Engine”. However, while playing the game, we failed to realise at all what was achieved. Some moderately entertaining combat aside, the release takes too liberally from other, better titles. Technical issues are the final nail in the coffin, making it interesting to see a game aim so low, yet still manage to miss its mark entirely. | Read review |
| Saudi Gamer | صالح بازرعة | 4 / 10 | 04-26-2017 | This game lacks creativity in every aspect, as it tries and fails at implementing its various features. It comes off as more of a sniping simulator than a videogame with engaging mechanics, and is thus a hard game to recommend, even to shooter fans. | Read review |
| SelectButton | Marcus Jones | 6 / 10 | 05-04-2017 | Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 has some good moments when you focus on the sniping aspect set in the open world environment. It’s a shame it suffers from several bugs and feels a little misguided. I couldn’t find myself invested in the main character or the plight of anyone around me, but rather I was just interested in the game’s excellent array of weaponry and ability to kill everyone. Maybe that’s a bad sign, but to my defense, hunting down collectibles gets old. | Read review |
| Slant Magazine | Matt De Azevedo | 2.5 / 5 stars | 04-29-2017 | CI Games’s latest, Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3, puts the player’s courage and tolerance to the test. | Read review |
| SomHráč.sk | Martin Kubeš | 55 / 100 | 05-19-2017 | Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 isn’t exactly the best game on the market. Although CI Games promised to enter the AAA space, at the end they didn’t succeed. It’s not a bad title, but the disastrous technical state is irritating. | Read review |
| SpazioGames | Yuri Polverino | 7 / 10 | 04-25-2017 | Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 is a good experiment by CI Games, to set his famous brand in an open-world structure. Gameplay and the managing of the items are good, but the IA make the experience less good as it could be. Instead the map is pretty good and the variety of the quests too, mixed with some problems about texture that put the graphics level in a medium category. Suggested for who loves snipes games andh the brand too. | Read review |
| TechRaptor | Robert Grosso | 5 / 10 | 05-05-2017 | Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 tries to accommodate its namesake by offering sniping, sneaking and action into one open world package, but only sniping succeeds at being any fun. | Read review |
| The Digital Fix | Leigh Forgie | 5 / 10 | 05-19-2017 | Like a fleeting target ducking in and out of the crosshairs, much of the fun in Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 is obscured by off-putting technical faults and uninspired gameplay. | Read review |
| TheSixthAxis | Aran Suddi | 6 / 10 | 04-25-2017 | The relatively unique Georgian setting and the brewing civil war are all but set aside for a by the numbers story of revenge and betrayal, while Jon isn’t a very likeable protagonist. The various bugs and crashes also need to be addressed in future patches, as they can ruin the experience. Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 has the sniping down to a tee, which should be expected with the number of years CI has been working on the series, but the surrounding package could be better. | Read review |
| ThisGenGaming | Justin Oneil | 4 / 10 | 05-06-2017 | Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 succeeds as a sniping game but fails at most everything else it set out to be. | Read review |
| TrueAchievements | Mark Delaney | 1.5 / 5 stars | 05-05-2017 | Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 is misguided by the unending trend of games going open-world. The idea may have been born with good intentions, but blatantly copying all of another series’ structure is a bad look, undone much further by the fact that it does all of those same things very poorly. It’s unclear for whom this game was made as it feels more like a middling title we rarely see anymore, possessing neither the polish of AAA nor the admirable quirks of an indie. | Read review |
| TrueGaming | خالد العيسى | 5.5 / 10 | 04-27-2017 | While the game’s core idea is pretty fun, it still has a lot of annoying technical glitches, lengthy loading times and the lack game mode varieties makes it a disappointing experience | Read review |
| Twinfinite | Tom Hopkins | 2 / 5 stars | 04-24-2017 | Granting players the freedom to decide how to take on missions and utilize the excellent sniping mechanic however they like is an idea that the Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 series required to improve on the underwhelming first two entries. However, since everything else, from the characters to the open world itself, lack polish, depth, and quality – on top of the game being riddled with technical problems – Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 is far more dull and frustrating than it is ever enjoyable. | Read review |
| We Got This Covered | Ken Barnes | 1.5 / 5 stars | 04-25-2017 | Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 is a promising and somewhat ambitious concept that’s plagued with some monstrous game-breaking technical issues, inconsistent AI and some downright curious design choices. Some of it can doubtless be patched but as it stands, this is far from a finished product. | Read review |
| WellPlayed | Zach Jackson | 6 / 10 | 05-02-2017 | Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 is a step forward for the series, however its myriad of issues means it fails to break the shackles of its predecessors | Read review |
About Sniper Ghost Warrior 3
GAME INFO
Game Description / Storyline:
Go behind enemy lines with the ultimate modern military shooter. Play as an American sniper dropped in Georgia, near Russian border. Choose your own path to accomplish your missions across an unforgiven open world.
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DEVELOPER(S):
- CI Games
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- CI Games
GENRES:
- Shooter
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- Sniper Ghost Warrior
GAME MODES:
- Multiplayer, Single player
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- Sniper Ghost Warrior 3: The Sabotage
- Sniper Ghost Warrior 3: The Escape of Lydia
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- Multiplayer, Single player
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DLC:
- Sniper Ghost Warrior 3: The Sabotage
- Sniper Ghost Warrior 3: The Escape of Lydia
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