Sniper: Ghost Warrior

Dublin_Gunner · 08-04-2010 11:29am #1

http://www.guru3d.com/news/sniper-ghost-warrior-announced/

Video looks impressive, the physics interactions look great.

Interestingly, I can't find any info about it on the Developer's site...

dor83 · 08-04-2010 12:54pm

Looks interesting alright, I hadn't heard anything about it until I read your post but I read the hands-on that IGN did and it sounds very interesting, especially when you consider it will be a "value release".

Maximilian · 08-04-2010 1:29pm

Could go either way. If it has lots of stealth gameplay, I'm sold.

Dublin_Gunner · 08-04-2010 1:40pm

Yeah it sort of came out of nowhere this game. But it looks very good, pretty gfx, and if it gets the gameplay right, could be a winner.

Stealthy ala Deus Ex would be great

I wonder what graphics engine its built on?

Retr0gamer · 08-04-2010 2:41pm

Looks way too good to be a 'value' shooter. I'm guessing they licensed the crysis engine and didn't build the engine themselves.

PogMoThoin · 08-04-2010 7:25pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Looks way too good to be a 'value' shooter. I'm guessing they licensed the crysis engine and didn't build the engine themselves.

Looks like that, looks good

Dublin_Gunner · 08-04-2010 7:42pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Looks way too good to be a 'value' shooter. I'm guessing they licensed the crysis engine and didn't build the engine themselves.

Oh I seriously doubt they built it, they seem to be a small enough developer.

But releasing a game licensed on CryEngine 2 as 'value' doesn;t seem to make much sense, I'm pretty sure licensing a high end engine like CryEngine 2 would cost a few million $$$.

Though, I suppose you never know..

Maximilian · 08-04-2010 7:50pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Looks way too good to be a 'value' shooter. I'm guessing they licensed the crysis engine and didn't build the engine themselves.

It did look an awful like cryengine alright.

PogMoThoin · 08-04-2010 8:14pm

Must be Cryengine 3, trailer has Xbox360 logo at the end. Watch it get consolitis like all the others

Retr0gamer · 08-04-2010 9:33pm

Dublin_Gunner wrote: »

But releasing a game licensed on CryEngine 2 as 'value' doesn;t seem to make much sense, I'm pretty sure licensing a high end engine like CryEngine 2 would cost a few million $$$.

You would be surprised how little engine licensing costs compared to the budgets of a lot of games. Cryengine is probably even less expensive than the unreal 3 engine and I'd say that they can knock a lot off the price by paying royalties.

Dublin_Gunner · 08-04-2010 10:43pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

You would be surprised how little engine licensing costs compared to the budgets of a lot of games. Cryengine is probably even less expensive than the unreal 3 engine and I'd say that they can knock a lot off the price by paying royalties.

This inter web thingy is great!

the game is built with the Chrome Engine, the same one that Call of Juarez ran on

http://www.destructoid.com/strictly-come-sniping-in-sniper-ghost-warrior-168600.phtml

Some nice screens there too...

More specifically, Chrome Engine 4
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrome_Engine

dreamers75 · 08-04-2010 11:10pm

other Sniper games arent bad considering they around 15 quid.

They have their moments altho let down by the non sniping bits.

gizmo · 09-04-2010 1:16pm

Dublin_Gunner wrote: »

But releasing a game licensed on CryEngine 2 as 'value' doesn;t seem to make much sense, I'm pretty sure licensing a high end engine like CryEngine 2 would cost a few million $$$.

Though, I suppose you never know..

Well look at Merchants of Brooklyn / Drug Wars, that used CryEngine 2 and it's available on Steam for the princely sum of £3.99.

Dublin_Gunner · 09-04-2010 1:39pm

gizmo wrote: »

Well look at Merchants of Brooklyn / Drug Wars, that used CryEngine 2 and it's available on Steam for the princely sum of £3.99.

Oh yeah that looks like a real money spinner....

Drug Wars = Game Dev Fail. They inadvertantly released an Alpha build for sale at first, and frantically tried to patch it.

This is a prime example of licensing a big game engine (for probably a very high cost) and failing miserably.

There's nothing I've seen in screens that could not have been done in the Doom 3 (iD tech 4 iirc) engine - which is planned for a GNU license this year - so free for anyone.

skelliser · 14-05-2010 1:07am

Multiplayer vid.
This looks promising. Could be really tense with games lasting hours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEJk-9JYrX0

Dublin_Gunner · 14-05-2010 1:21am

skelliser wrote: »

Multiplayer vid.
This looks promising. Could be really tense with games lasting hours.

Hmm. I dunno. That video has dropped the game in my estimation now.

Doesn't look any different to any other crappy shooter, apart from they all have sniper rifles.

Looks very arcade / consoley

skelliser · 14-05-2010 1:33am

In fairness to them they had to jazz up the vid or else it would have been pretty boring.
I hope the real game is different with massive maps and plenty of hiding places etc.
At the end you see what i hope the real game will be like.

I live in hope.

Kiith · 14-05-2010 8:57am

Oh great, now i can get camped by 16 players rather then the 5-6 in most modern shooters.

Single Malt · 14-05-2010 3:07pm

The video looked like sniper only cod, with multiple stage zoom. It even had grenade indicators. Meh

Undead · 14-05-2010 4:09pm

Looks awful, COD with only Sniper rifles..

Twilightning · 14-05-2010 9:13pm

CoD isn't the only FPS out there to be placed in a modern setting guys. Not every future FPS you'll see is a carbon-copy of CoD. It's not even out yet. I'm actually looking forward to this. From the game's description on the website the physics such as bullet drop and different weather affecting your shots to training yourself to breathe correctly, it sounds like it's going to be one hell of a sniper simulator. It actually contains elements of realism when it comes to sniping, something which CoD seriously lacks.

Ri_Nollaig · 15-05-2010 11:48am

Kiith wrote: »

Oh great, now i can get camped by 16 players rather then the 5-6 in most modern shooters.

that MP trailer looks like my idea of Multiplayer FPS hell...

Butch Cassidy · 19-05-2010 1:45am

I'm looking forward to this. Is it on PS3 does anyone know?

I loved Sniper Elite which incidently is being re-released on Wii. I hope this is somewhere along the lines of Sniper Elite. Realistic physics, lots of stealthy waiting around to line up a shot etc.

SeantheMan · 20-05-2010 3:09am

skelliser wrote: »

Multiplayer vid.
This looks promising. Could be really tense with games lasting hours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEJk-9JYrX0

It looks absouletly awful as a multiplayer.

Too many snipers ruins a lot of FPS, so this won't be for me.

2nd..WHAT...is the point of the compass that gives away the enemy position before you see them ? You don't even have to look for them...just line the RED DOT up with the top of your compass = direction of enemy
...look at it in the trailer...its ridiculous

The perfect example is 8 seconds in. You can see the Red Dot of the enemy... you see it rotate around in relation to the characters direction..till eventually he's looking in that direction..and kills him. So you see him at 8secs, kill is @ 26secs

Soby · 20-05-2010 3:45am

SeantheMan wrote: »

It looks absouletly awful as a multiplayer.

Too many snipers ruins a lot of FPS, so this won't be for me.

2nd..WHAT...is the point of the compass that gives away the enemy position before you see them ? You don't even have to look for them...just line the RED DOT up with the top of your compass = direction of enemy
...look at it in the trailer...its ridiculous

The perfect example is 8 seconds in. You can see the Red Dot of the enemy... you see it rotate around in relation to the characters direction..till eventually he's looking in that direction..and kills him. So you see him at 8secs, kill is @ 26secs

Didnt notice that..thats ****...although for some they might enough it..maybe it could have a knock on effect and make BF 2 more enjoyable..less snipers and all that lol

PogMoThoin · 20-05-2010 8:10am

No bullet drop either, lots of snipers playing multiplayer in Arma 2 works because of just this, no guarantee You're going to hit the target even if You get the shot spot on. You gotta learn how to judge the distance and how to use the scope before You start to get kills. The Ace 2 mod even added wind deflection, You gotta adjust to allow for the wind, even gave You a meter to measure it. This just looks far too easy

Dave147 · 24-05-2010 4:36am

Looks nice, are we to assume there'll be no PC release?

TerrorFirmer · 25-05-2010 7:54am

City Interative games are incredibly poor. They all look pretty decent, but aspects crucial to any game - atmosphere, gameplay, direction, style - are all completely, utterly flat. Other games include Code of Honor, Terrorist Takedown, Sniper: Road to Victory, Mortyr III and similarly named titles. I've played most of their games. The graphics are good in all of them - they always license engines, a good few of their games use the Lithtech Jupiter Engine (F.E.A.R). But they all feel identical, like the same game with new skins. Which works better for some games than others, a few of them are playable but unbelievably repetitive, but their Call of Duty clones are horrible, boring, lifeless, flat and devoid of any inspiration whatsoever.

Think Doom, with better graphics. Which isn't a whole lot in this day and age. I would really avoid this one, unless CI have really reinvented themselves....which I sincerely doubt.