While the different styles of gameplay and scenic locales keep things fresh, nothing is pulled off particularly well. Regular sniper chores are the most enjoyable part of the game because they're straightforward and offer that peculiar shooter satisfaction that comes from turning an enemy's head into a red geyser from a mile away. If you dial up the difficulty, you have to deal with wind, heart rate, breathing, and gravity whenever you hold down the right mouse button to squint into your sight, too. It's all a bit extreme

Hi,

Sniper Ghost Warrior (Gold Edition), is a excellent (FPS), has the expected control freedom, NPC's interactions, NPC's speeches + more. Has configurable keys, like, jump, sniper view mouse wheel forwards + back, crouch + more. Has real weapons, like, knife, silenced pistol, scoped sniper, grappling rope, auto assault guns. Has the three stances, from ground to crouch to normal stance. Hold crouch for about one second and you go to ground level + keep moving, press crouch again you go to crouch level, then press again you go to stand mode to walk or run as normal. Excellent weapon sounds + real world environments + much more.

A real winner, in military mode + is recommended. Excellent (FPS),

YDDVY

I will start off by saying that if this game is the best sniping simulation, then we need to make a good sniping simulation.

Indeed, it feels more like a CoD style shooter with elements of stealth. It's not meant for hardcore players ready to master a game. For example, you have a tonload of life points, you have magic syringes that heal you, when you stop breathing, you go into slow-motion mode, when you aim with the sniper you have a little red dot telling you where your bullet will it (which means you don't need to take wind and distance into account yourself, it's automatic)... there's a plethora of things that ultimately turn this game into "yet another shooter", with snipers this time.

There are elements of stealth, but again they're very basic: you have only _one_ key to press to switch between standing, crouching and laying, and it's just a matter of finding bushes.

The game however is enjoyable, and I hear a major patch was deployed which corrected pretty much every glitch. However, it does lose some points because it was advertised as "the best sniping simulation" when in fact it's an arcade game.

As far as the Gold Edition is concerned, I would pay 20-25€ maximum for it.

Sniper Ghost Warrior Gold Edition is a great game especially if you haven’t played the original game. I had the luck to buy it in promotion so I didn’t pay that much, I don’t know if I would have ever bought the game if it had costed € 30 or more. But the gameplay is still great; one of the things I really liked are the slow-motion headshots which can get really bloody. The extras with the gold edition are:

- the m200 or intervention (sniper)

- the L96 (sniper)

- the Dessert Eagle (handgun)

- Capture the flag multiplayer game mode

- a new campaign called Unfinished Business.

I have also heard people complain that you can’t use the new weapons in the multiplayer, I have to say that this is not true, you can use them, but only if the host of that lobby has the gold edition as well. About the multiplayer: it is for experienced players, it is really hard to spot other players.

Now about the new campaign; I have got to say that it are only 3 missions. But still all missions in this game are pretty long and give you a great variety in options to find a good spot. However, not everything is great about the game, sometimes there are 'flying trees' and the little details in this game are rubbish, also the animation for throwing your knives and throwing your hook are pretty fake.

So at the end it has a great gameplay and I played it very long, but the 'finishing touch' is rubbish and if you already have the original game, I recommend not to buy this game since the stuff you get extra is not worth the (full) price.

This review is for "Sniper: Ghost Warrior - Gold Edition". If you don't already have the original game, then the Gold Edition is the one to get. It contains "Unfinished Business", which is a new single-player campaign, along with a new Capture The Flag multiplayer mode, two new sniper rifles, and a Desert Eagle pistol. I'll confine this review to the Unfinished Business SP content, because I don't deal with multiplayer at all.

The "Unfinished Business" campaign is only 3 missions long, so don't expect much.

City Interactive claims "refined AI" for this campaign, but I'm not seeing it. To me, this looks and plays very similar to the original missions. Which doesn't bother me, as I enjoyed the original game, but the three new missions really seemed like more of the same. The missions are pretty decent in length, but just as linear as the originals. Some details seemed unfinished, which you can see by looking around where you're not supposed to go. It's a linear game, so you can't wander too far, but for instance, if you crawl under the docks in mission 2, you'll see where they didn't bother to put the dock's pilings all the way down to the water. Other areas have random floating trees. Minor details, but still annoying condidering I paid the price for another edition of this game just to get the three new missions.

As it is, if you already have the original game, wait for a sale if you're in it for just the SP missions. If you don't already have this game at all, then the Gold Edition is the one to get, and I wholeheartedly recommend it. Ghost Warrior is a good sniping game, and fun. Overall, I deducted a star for its reliance on heavy scripting and linearity.

Install notes: I already had my original Ghost Warrior game installed, and the installer refused to do a clean install elsewhere on my drive, wanting instead to repair my files, which I attempted but failed. So, if you have the original game installed already, uninstall it before installing the new Gold version.

Also, this Gold version gave me no weird error messages, like the original version did. Once I uninstalled the original game, the Gold version installed and launched with absolutely no problems whatsoever. I had been worried about that given my past experience, but apparently the former problems have been fixed. My system: Win7 64bit, Core i7, GTX460 1 gig, 8 gigs system ram.