It won’t be here until 2019, but today CI Games have announced Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts… promising that it’ll take the sniping series in a whole new direction.
Coming to Xbox One, PS4 and PC, Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts will allow us to experience the ultimate sniper gameplay. With us placed in the harsh Siberian wilderness it’ll feature a brand new contracts system that will attempt to encourage strategic thinking across missions that are both engaging and replayable.
After taking in feedback from the Sniper Ghost community, CI Games have decided the best route for the latest title in the series is to see Contracts deliver tense, mission-based scenarios, all with the best sniping tactics yet. This new contracts system will see players dive headfirst into tailor-made contract missions that offer a clear main objective with a fixed monetary reward, all whilst still coming complete with the option to tackle secondary objectives for bonus payouts.
Contracts will offer dense, more focused maps that still allow for the core sniping gameplay the series has become known for, rewarding tactical thinking at every opportunity. Drop in the combination of open-ended missions, emergent gameplay, a wide range of targets and a harsh environment, it will ensure these scenarios are wildly replayable.
“It is exciting to see the team really motivated and working hard on our next sniping game,” said CI Games Chief Executive Officer, Marek Tymiński. “They don’t have to start from scratch this time and can now – on top of developing new content – spend way more time on improving things they already have.” This highlights CI Games’ commitment to listening to their community and iterating on their feedback.
Tymiński continued, “We were too ambitious in terms of the scope of Sniper Ghost Warrior 3, but we’ve learned from our missteps. Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts will be more focused on emergent gameplay with an open-ended mission design that the team feels strong about, but it will not be set in an open world. It is going to be a more tactical, more condensed experience and the game will offer plenty of replayability, both on the single player campaign and on the multiplayer modes.”
Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts should also include a much more optimized game engine than before, minimimal load times and stable FPS, keeping players grounded in the rich, moment-to-moment sniping gameplay. It certainly seems like it’ll be locked and loaded to impress both genre and first-person fans alike.
We will of course keep you up-to-date as development news arrives. Let’s just hope it builds on Sniper Ghost Warrior 3.