Like a good little soldier, you’re playing by someone else’s rules. Instead, you're forced to play exactly how the designers intended, obvious course of action be damned. The problem is that after you kill the first enemy you can’t just pick up his weapon. For instance, at one point in Ghost Warrior 2’s story you lose your rifle and have to retrieve it, sneaking around enemies or killing them quietly with a knife or your pistol. Very occasional moments in the campaign try to mix things up, but they feel so trite that they did little more than induce heavy sighs. It's a blessing because it helps you get through the story faster, but a curse in that it breaks the illusion that these are human beings with, you know, a desire to live. The enemies might react, but they’ll do so so slowly (not to mention no others seem to hear the percussive bang of your giant, unsilenced rifle) that you have ample time to pick them off.
That’s often not a problem, because in situations where missing a shot might cause a game-over state, Ghost Warrior 2 generally dumbs down the AI enough to give you plenty of time to fire again and score a kill.
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There's a lot of shooting, missing, and then readjusting your aim – trial and error. You can’t just do a bit of math (well, mere mortals can't) and figure out exactly where to aim for shots in this mode, you just have to understand how wind speeds and distance will affect your bullet drop. The stripping of these features make some shots a bit more tense, since it really does take time to learn the feel of the weapon, and you might have missed a potential target during your initial scouting. You also don’t have the bullet-drop indicators, meaning that you have to pay attention to the wind and distance to your target, adjusting your aim accordingly. Here you don't have big marks over every person's head, so you have to actually hunt for targets. Playing on the hardest difficulty helps a little. Shooting in Ghost Warrior 2 becomes less an art and more of a mundane task. Especially so during the canned portions where you set up a rifle and can’t move until you’ve hit the targets you’re ordered to kill.
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Play You’ll need to do sniper-y things, like hold your breath to slow down time (pretty sure snipers can't actually do that, but it represents concentration), or manage your stance to reduce the sway of your barrel, but all in all every stage starts to feel like a series of target shoots with little variation in terms of goals or setting.
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