One of the hardest things to do when making a video game franchise is to make the series last without making it feel repetitive or average in terms of presentation. Sadly, a lot of franchises have this happen, including the Sniper Ghost Warrior series. While the first two games were praised, the third entry had a lot of development issues, and it led to a sub-par title. CI Games though has announced Sniper Ghost Warrior: Contracts through, and they’re promising something new.
“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.
“Drawing upon community feedback, Contracts delivers tense, mission-based scenarios with CI Games’ best sniping ever. This is all thanks to the new contracts system, which takes a step back from Sniper Ghost Warrior 3’s open world. In the single player campaign, players dive headfirst into tailor-made contract missions that offer a clear main objective with a fixed monetary reward, and have the option to complete secondary objectives for bonus payouts. Feel like you can do better? Jump back in and tackle the mission from a different angle — players can repeat every contract to earn more money.”
The team also noted that their past will help with their future:
“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.
We’ll just have to see how successful they were when the game comes out.
