These can be completed by the player if they are not playing the main missions. The game's world is scattered with different activities and side missions which are known as "war crimes".
It is designed to be less linear than Ghost Warrior and Ghost Warrior 2, since the title is the first in the series to feature an open world environment, which can be freely explored by the player. Similar to its predecessors, Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 is a first-person tactical shooter game. Screenshot showing the game at night, and its rain effects. Rebekah Valentine is a news reporter for IGN. Update: IGN reached out to UberStrategist PR, the PR firm through which the event was organized, for additional comment, but was referred back to CI Games' original statement.
Although the COVID restrictions made arranging the event unusually difficult, we take full responsibility and will work hard to ensure that in future any events associated with the Sniper Ghost Warrior franchise live up to the standards of respect and tolerance that we set ourselves." ".We would like to apologize directly to Eric Switzer from The Gamer and to any other attendees who found the event offensive. “Respect and tolerance are keystones of our company’s culture and we were distressed to discover that an event meant to be fun and engaging for participants had instead caused offense for some attendees.” “We try very hard to ensure we’re avoiding stereotypes or representing cultures in any negative way,” the apology reads. It's worth noting that Contracts 2 is still set in the Middle East and involves fighting off a local crime syndicate, as other games with similar settings and premises draw criticism for their depictions of Arabs as enemies.īuT gAMeS sHOuLdN’T bE pOLiTicAL /pIn55S14UI- Rus McLaughlin June 24, 2021 It added that CI Games had asked the event company to change enemy outfits to be more in keeping with what is seen in the game, but its request was declined to preserve the training event's "authenticity." Its intention, it says, was to provide an authentic US Navy Seal training experience akin to what players might experience in Contracts 2. While there were stations to play the game at the event, there was no time allotted to do so.ĬI Games' apology for the event notes that it is based in Poland, and because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the studio was unable to be directly involved in the event. gwxXUCtfZo- CI Games June 24, 2021Īctivities included using airsoft-like guns to fire at actors described as "bad guys" or "enemies" wearing white robes and keffiyehs, culminating in a photo opportunity where the media participants were asked to raise their fists at the actors, who were "instructed to put their hands in the air and ululate like a jihadist." A flag displaying "Trump 2024: The Revenge Tour" flew from the facility's main building.Īccording to the article, Sniper: Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 review codes had already been sent out at this time and the game had been released the day before.
The group was guided through a day of military training exercises in a mock-village that TheGamer described as "the Middle-East as we’re often shown it via Western media - a gross, twisted doppelganger that doesn’t actually represent life in that part of the world at all."Īn open response to article regarding our recent press event.